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* J. Steven Svoboda holds a Master’s Degree in Physics from the University of California at Berkeley and graduated with honors from Harvard Law School. He is Executive Director of Attorneys for the Rights of the Child, which he founded in 1997, and he has presented to the United Nations on male circumcision. In 2013, he debated Michael Brady of the American Academy of Pediatrics regarding the legality and ethics of male circumcision, unofficially winning the debate. His articles regarding children’s right to bodily autonomy have appeared in the ''Journal of Medical Ethics'', ''Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine'', ''Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics'', ''American Medical Association Journal of Ethics'', and ''American Journal of Bioethics''. Berkeley, California, USA.
* '''Hida Viloria''' is the founding director of the Intersex Campaign for Equality (IC4E) and one of the world’s foremost intersex and non-binary activists, a frequent consultant (UN, Lambda Legal, Human Rights Watch), speaker (Columbia, Princeton, Stanford, NYU...), television and radio guest (''Oprah'', ''Aljazeera'', ''20/20'', ''NPR'', ''BBC''...), and one of the most extensively published writers in the field (�e Hu�ngton ''The Huffington Post'', �e ''The Daily Beast'', �e ''The Advocate'', �e ''The American Journal of Bioethics'', CNN.com, Ms...). In 2017 she became the recipient of the nation’s second intersex birth certi�catecertificate, and he/r memoir ''Born Both: An Intersex Life '' (Hachette Books) was released to praise by ''The New York Times'', ''The Washington Post'', ''Rolling Stone'', ''NPR'', ''Psychology Today'', ''People'', and more. Follow Viloria online at hidaviloria.com, or @hidaviloria on Facebook and Twitter. Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.
* Jen Williams is the founder and director of [[Your Whole Baby]]. She got her start in activism during her college years, when she formed an animal rights group on the campus of Texas A&M University. After graduation, she worked for PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) in the Vegan Outreach department. Jen later pursued her teaching certification and taught middle school and high school English for seven years before becoming a stay-at-home/homeschooling mom. When her daughter was a year old, a friend got her involved in advocating for genital autonomy. As she traveled down the rabbit hole of knowledge, her passion for the topic grew, as did her desire to create a one-stop website for activists and researching parents. With the support of a friend, Jen created ''YourWholeBaby.org'' in December of 2014. Since that time, the organization has expanded to social media, including Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. The need to appeal to college-age students led to the creation of the sibling site YWB101.org/YourWholeBody.org. In 2016, Your Whole Baby’s website had approximately 118,000 visitors. In 2017, the reach was over 313,000. Jen looks forward to a future where all children are protected from genital cutting, and hopes that this growing organization will help make that a reality. Leaner, Texas, USA.
* Ashley Trueman, BS, MS, MCert Philosophy, Director of Education with [[Your Whole Baby]], developed “The Foreskin and Circumcision: Facts you need to know to make an informed decision”, a two-hour class curriculum for expectant parents, which she presented at the 13th International Symposium on Genital Autonomy and Children's Rights. To date, her presentation to more than 300 couples has a 100% success rate for saving boys from circumcision. Circumcision first got on Ashley’s radar when a baby died shortly after his circumcision at a pediatric office where she worked as an undergraduate student. Many years later, her office shared a wall with the “circumcision room” of a pediatrician/mohel and that’s what drove her to activism and eventually back to school to study bioethics. Ashley began her bioethics training at Georgetown University before moving to England to study philosophy with a focus in bioethics at Oxford University. She also holds degrees from Arizona State University and Tulane University. New Haven, Connecticut.
==Proceedings==
====Friday, 4 May 2018====
* Registration
* Welcome
* Childhood Genital Cutting and Religious Freedom: Where to draw the line?<br>
::''Brian Earp''
* Meet & Greet
==Proceedings==Saturday, 5 May 2018====