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* '''Janet Heimlich''' is an award-winning journalist and the author of ''Breaking Their Will: Shedding Light on Religious Child Maltreatment'', which takes an in-depth look at child abuse and neglect in the United States that is enabled by religious belief. She is also president of the ''Child-Friendly Faith Project'', a national nonprofit public charity that educates the public about the impact that religious, spiritual, and cultural beliefs and practices have on children. As a freelance reporter for National Public Radio, Ms. Heimlich won nine journalism awards, including the regional Katie and the Houston Press Club’s “Radio Journalist of the Year.” Austin, Texas, USA. * '''Katharina Kunze''', MS, has degrees in Cultural Anthropology, Gender Studies, and Philosophy. She explored and discussed in her final thesis how NGOs use social, cultural, and financial resources to work sustainably and effectively. Before she became the section manager against FGM (Female Genital Mutilation) at Germany’s largest women’s rights NGO, [[TERRE DES FEMMES| Terre Des Femmes]], she worked as a copywriter, researcher, campaign manager, and social media expert. She discovered feminism in her early twenties and understood that her privileges oblige and empower her to take action for justice, health, freedom, and security. Berlin, Germany. * '''[[David J. Llewellyn]]''', BA, JD is an attorney whose practice is concentrated in genital injury litigation. He has represented numerous victims of botched circumcisions, both infant and adult, as well as victims of circumcisions performed without consent. He has also represented a number of parents who filed suits to prevent the circumcisions of their sons. He has extensive experience representing the victims of the most common forms of negligently performed circumcisions. Atlanta, Georgia, USA. * '''Donna Rigney Macris''', RN, CNM, MSN, CLNC, is a decades-long human rights activist in issues of genital integrity who has served on the Board of Directors of NOCIRC, was a co-founder of the International Symposia on Circumcision, and co-authored the ''[[Declaration of the First International Symposium on Circumcision (1989)| Declaration of the First International Symposium on Circumcision]]''. Her writings on the issue of circumcision and the rights of infants and children as well as on the normal function of the male genitalia have been published. She has spoken nationally and internationally promoting conscious objector status for nurses and midwives in opposition to newborn circumcision. She has been guest faculty in midwifery programs, including Stanford University’s ''Women’s Health Care Training Project''. Her Master’s Degree Research at St. Louis University centered upon informed consent for circumcision. Fresno, California, USA. * '''Jennifer Margulis''', PhD, is an award-winning investigative journalist and a senior fellow at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University. She is the author of the groundbreaking exposé, ''The Business of Baby''. Ashland, Oregon, USA. * '''Brendon Marotta''' is an award-winning filmmaker. He graduated from the University of the North Carolina School of the Arts Film School, and works as a professional film editor and director. His work can be found online at www.brendonmarotta.com. Charlottesville, Virginia, USA. * '''[[Paul Mason]]''', BA (Hons), LLB, is a family law barrister of 35 years experience. For 3½ years, from 2007 to 2010, he was the statutorily independent Commissioner for Children for the Australian State of Tasmania. During that time, amongst his other work, he pursued raising awareness of the human rights of children to protection from all forms of violence and from harmful traditional practices (HTPs). He, with Dr. Comfort Momoh, is an inaugural co-patron of the UK-based charity Genital Autonomy and in 2013 was instrumental in establishing the Antipodean child rights organisation, [[AIGA Inc.| Australasian Institute for Genital Autonomy Inc.]] (AIGA). Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. * '''Jonathan Meddings''' has a degree in medical science with honors from James Cook University and is currently a student of philosophy at Macquarie University. He is a member of ''Friends of Science in Medicine'', an organization campaigning against the teaching of the pseudoscience that is alternative/complementary medicine in Australian tertiary institutions, as well as a board member of the ''Rationalist Society of Australia'' and writer for the ''Young Australian Skeptics'', organizations devoted to the promotion of rational and skeptical thinking in all areas, including medicine. Jonathan is currently writing a book on circumcision. Melbourne, Australia.