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* '''Charli Carpenter''' is Professor of International Affairs in the Department of Political Science at University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Her teaching and research interests include human rights and humanitarian action, agenda-setting in transnational advocacy networks, and gender violence. She is particularly interested in why some human security problems and vulnerable populations get less attention on the global agenda than others. She has published three books and numerous journal articles, has served as a consultant for the United Nations, and contributes to Foreign Policy and Foreign Affairs. Her most recent book, Agenda-Vetting in Global Networks and the Shaping of Human Security, includes a case study of the transnational campaign against infant male circumcision. Amherst, MA, USA. * '''Georganne Chapin''', JD, MS, an attorney and healthcare executive, is the founding Executive Director of Intact America. She also holds positions at Hudson Health Plan (President & CEO) and MVP Health Care (Executive Vice President for Corporate Affairs), both located in New York State, and serves as an officer on the board of [[Attorneys for the Rights of the Child]]. Georganne holds an undergraduate degree in anthropology from Barnard College, a Masters in Sociomedical Sciences from Columbia University, and a JD from Pace University School of Law, where she has also served as adjunct faculty, teaching courses in Bioethics and Medicaid and Disability Law. Woodstock, New York, USA. * '''Chelsea Collonge''', MA, has a background in peace and nonviolence studies at UC Berkeley and holds a masters degree in religion from the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her research in the area of feminist liberation theology and sexuality focused on progressive Christian opposition to forced circumcision in the USA. Chelsea lives on a farm in rural California where she works with HIV-positive persons and participates in the Catholic Worker movement. Sheep Ranch, California, USA. * '''Leonid Walter Dunn''', MNS, received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology from the University of Liberia after earn-ing an Advanced Certificate in Statistics from the Institute for Population Studies at the University of Liberia and his Masters of Ntalextuwl (Intellectual) Studies with emphasis in Communications & Public Policy from the Blacology Research & Development Institute based in Maryland, USA. Leonid is a Liberian national, with a portfolio ranging from administrator to professional aide in the Office of the Liberian Presidency prior to his resignation in 2010 to focus on and run one of Liberia’s leading child-rights advocacy institutions, ''Child Rights Foundation-Children Welfare Foundation International'' (CRF-CWFI), serving as Chairman. CRF-CWFI seeks for compliance to the United Nations ''Convention on the Rights of the Child'' (UN-CRC), international instruments and protocols that protect the child; while seeking prosecution for abusers. Monrovia, Liberia, West Africa. * '''Brian D. Earp''' is a Research Fellow at the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford as well as a Consultant Researcher with the Institute for Science and Ethics, also at Oxford. He has served as Editor in Chief of the ''Yale Philosophy Review'' as well as Guest Editor of the ''Journal of Medical Ethics'', the leading journal in the field. Brian holds degrees from Yale and Oxford universities and is currently a Cambridge Trust Scholar and Rausing Award recipient studying the history and philosophy of science and medicine at the University of Cambridge. Cambridge, England, UK. * '''John V. Geisheker''', JD, LL.M, has practiced medico-legal law as an arbitrator, mediator, litigator, and law lecturer for over 30 years. He is the full-time pro bono Director and General Counsel for [[Doctors Opposing Circumcision]], an international physicians’ charity based in Seattle, Washington. D.O.C.’s members and supporters oppose cultural, non-therapeutic genital cutting of children, male or female, on human rights and scientific grounds. John is a native of [[New Zealand]], a country that fully abandoned medicalized male circumcision in the 1960’s. He hopes his adopted USA will someday follow that principled example. Seattle, Washington, USA.