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* '''Heli Askola''', LLB, LLM (Turku, Finland) 2000, {{PhD}} (European University Institute, Florence, Italy) 2005, is Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, Monash University in Melbourne. Before joining Monash in 2008, she worked at Cardiff Law School in the UK and she has been a visiting scholar at a number of universities around the world. Her main areas of teaching and research interest are international human rights law, feminist legal theory, and EU law. Clayton, Victoria, Australia.
* '''Zenas Baer''', {{JD}}, graduated from the University of Minnesota with a {{BA }} in German literature and political science (1976) and from Hamline University School of Law, St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1980. Since 1980, he has been in the private practice of law in Hawley, Minnesota. He is licensed to practice in the United States Supreme Court, United States Claims Court, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, Supreme Court of the State of Minnesota, Supreme Court of the State of North Dakota, US District Courts in Minnesota and North Dakota, and the White Earth Band of Chippewa Tribal Court. His practice is focused primarily on complex litigation and he is known to take on unusual cases generally fighting for the underdog. He has handled a number of circumcision cases and dealt extensively with the concept of informed consent as it relates to circumcision. Hawley, Minnesota, USA.
* '''Amy Callan''', MS, holds an undergraduate degree in psychology from Manhattan College and received her MS degree in health services administration from Iona College. She worked for Hudson Health Plan, a non-profit Medicaid managed-care company in New York’s Hudson Valley, where she served as project manager and was responsible for the coordination, oversight, and implementation of projects related to nonprofit program design and strategy. Amy is currently the Business Operations Manager for [[Intact America]], an organization that envisions a world where children are protected from permanent bodily alteration inflicted on them, without their consent, in the name of culture, religion, profit, or parental preference. Tarrytown, New York, USA.
* '''[[Georganne Chapin]]''', {{JD}}, is the founding Executive Director of [[Intact America]] (IA), and the President and CEO of Hudson Health Plan and the Hudson Center for Health Equity and Quality – all not-for-profit organizations based in Tarrytown, NY. She holds a {{BA }} in anthropology from Barnard College, an MPhil in sociomedical sciences from Columbia University, and a {{JD}} from Pace University School of Law, where she has taught health law and bioethics. She is also a Board member of [[Attorneys for the Rights of the Child]]. As Executive Director of IA, Georganne has been quoted widely in the press, has been featured on many radio shows – local, national, and abroad – and has appeared on national television (MSNBC, NBC’s Today Show, and FOX News). Tarrytown, New York, USA.
* '''[[George C. Denniston| George Denniston]]''', {{MD}}, received his degree from Princeton University, his {{MPH}} from Harvard School of Public Health, is the founder of [[Doctors Opposing Circumcision]] (D.O.C.), and the co-author of ''Doctors Re-Examine Circumcision''. He is co-editor of the proceedings of the International Symposia on Circumcision, Human Rights, and Genital Integrity, Sexual Mutilations: A Human Tragedy; ''Male and Female Circumcision: Medical, Legal, and Ethical Considerations in Pediatric Practice''; ''Understanding Circumcision: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to a Multi-Dimensional Problem''; ''Flesh and Blood: Perspectives on the Problem of Circumcision in Contemporary Society''; ''Bodily Integrity and the Politics of Circumcision: Culture, Controversy and Change; Circumcision and Human Rights''; and ''Genital Autonomy: Protecting Personal Choice''. He is Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine, University of Washington. Seattle, Washington, USA.
* '''Miriam Pollack''', an educator in private practice, has been advocating for genital integrity for Jewish as well as non-Jewish baby boys for the past 19 years by writing, speaking, counseling Jewish parents, and providing alternative brit b’lee milah ceremonies for interested parents. Her article, “Circumcision: A Jewish Feminist Perspective,” was published in Jewish Women Speak Out: Expanding the Boundaries of Psychotherapy (Canopy Press, 1995), her paper, “Circumcision: Redefining the Sacred,” was published in ''Sexual Mutilations: A Human Tragedy'' (New York and London: Plenum Press, 1997), and her paper, “Circumcision: If It Isn’t Ethical, Can It Be Spiritual?,” was published in ''Circumcision and Human Rights'' (2009). She appeared in the documentary, Whose Body, Whose Rights? Boulder, Colorado, USA.
* '''Clare Puskarczyk''' received her {{MA }} in Consciousness Stud-ies at John F. Kennedy University in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is a {{PhD}} candidate in Philosophy and Religion at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, with a focus on Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness. Her primary interest has been the consciousness of children. Denver, Colorado, USA.
* '''Elizabeth Reis''', {{PhD}}, is associate professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and History at the University of Oregon. She is the author of ''Bodies in Doubt: An American History of Intersex'' (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009) and ''Damned Women: Sinners and Witches in Puritan New England''(Cornell, 1997). She received her {{PhD}} in history from the University of California, Berkeley. Eugene, Oregon, USA.
* '''Franco Viviani''', {{PhD}}, a physical anthropologist, is professor of anthropology applied to psychology at the Department of Applied Psychology, University of Padua. He has been involved with studies about FGM and, as the director of NOCIRC of Italy, on studies about male circumcision. He has published scientific papers and articles on these topics and has presented some of his research in the popular media.
* '''Astrik Vardanyan''', {{BA}}, {{MA}}, received her {{BA }} in English linguistics and literature from the Institute of Foreign Languages, Yerevan, Armenia, in 1996, and her master’s degree in anthropology at California State University, Northridge. She is a recipient of the McArthur scholarship in journalism, a fellowship at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists in Chicago, Illinois, where she published articles on social and environmental issues. Her recent interests are cross-cultural child-rearing practices. She is an advocate of genital integrity for boys and girls, prolonged breastfeeding, co-sleeping, and natural birth. Vardanyan is inclined toward action or advocacy anthropology and employs her research to out-reach the general public through media, seminars, and small group and individual talks. Northridge, California, USA.
* '''[[B. Maurene White]]''', {{RN}}, graduated from Montreal General Hospital School of Nursing in 1962 and received a BTh in 1988, a DipEd in 1991, and a {{BA }} (medical anthropology) in 1997 from McGill University. She has worked in different areas of nursing, with special interest in perinatality and outpost work as a nurse practitioner in northern Canada. She currently does private case nursing, consulting, and has developed a health-tracking system as an iPhone and iPod application. Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
* '''David Wilton''', {{JD}}, received his undergraduate degree from the University of Texas at El Paso and his law degree from the South Texas College of Law. He has a long-standing interest in issues of body integrity and HIV/AIDS. He blogs at Male Circumcision and HIV (www.circumcisionandhiv.com) while maintaining a full-time law practice specializing in criminal defense. His primary interests, outside of nurturing a debate on the controversial measure of removing sexual tissue to reduce the spread of HIV, are in the areas of criminal justice, languages, and journalism. San Francisco, California, USA.