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* '''[[Georganne Chapin]]''' is founding executive director of [[Intact America]]. For 25 years, she served as President and CEO of Hudson Health Plan, an innovative nonprofit health plan for low-income New Yorkers. In 2005, she founded the Hudson Center for Health Equity & Quality, a health policy and technology organization that she still leads, and that helps to support Intact America through its 501(c)(3) status. Georganne has written and spoken widely about social justice, healthcare reform, and bioethical issues. She is frequently quoted in the press, and has been interviewed on television, radio, and the Web in the United States and abroad. She holds a {{BA}} in Anthropology from Barnard College, {{MA}} and MPhil degrees in Sociomedical Sciences from {{UNI|Columbia University|CUNY}}, and a {{JD}} with certificates in Health and International Law from {{UNI|Pace University|PACE}} Law School. She has taught as an adjunct professor of law at Pace, and adjunct professor of bioethics to doctoral students at Dominican College School of Nursing. Woodstock, {{USSC|NY}}, USA.
* '''[[George Denniston]]''', {{MD}}, {{MPH}}, left the east coast early in his career and headed west to Seattle, where he started six birth control clinics. Then, as Associate Medical Director of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America in New York, he persuaded the National Board to add abortion and sterilization to the services offered by 400 clinics in the US. Returning to Seattle, he ran a birth control clinic, and trained doctors worldwide using 16mm films. One day, George learned from [[Marilyn Milos]] of two cases of botched circumcisions. Looking into it, he began to realize the great harm inflicted by this practice, not only to innocent little boys, but to the medical profession as a whole. Gallup polls (1965-1995) showed a decline in trust of doctors by Americans from 95% to 27%! He realized that his activist lay colleagues knew far more about the foreskin than most doctors, and that they were being arrogantly dismissed. He founded [[Doctors Opposing Circumcision(D.O.C.)]] to fight fire with fire. He is thankful for and enjoys knowing all his fellow intactivists who see the world through clear eyes. Nordland, {{USSC|WA}}, USA.
* '''Michael Drash''' is an independent scholar who graduated from the {{UNI|University of Virginia|UVA}} in 2017 with a {{BA}} in Linguistics and Slavic Languages and Literatures. His research interests include research ethics and sexual ethics as well as phonology, linguistic nationalism, and language pedagogy. He is currently working outside of academia but his current research project is investigating the ethical limits of [[amputation]] and surgery in a research setting. Santa Monica, {{USSC|CA}}, USA.
* '''[[Brian Earp]]''' is Associate Director of the Yale-Hastings Program in Ethics and Health Policy at {{UNI|Yale University|Yale}} and the Hastings Center Bioethics Research Institute, and a Research Fellow in the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics at the {{UNI|University of Oxford|Oxon}}. With degrees from Yale, Oxford, and Cambridge universities, his work is cross-disciplinary, following training in gender and sexuality, philosophy, psychology, history and sociology of science and medicine, and ethics. His research has been cited in the US President’s Commission on Bioethics and in a landmark British high court case concerning "Female Genital Mutilation" (FGM) by Sir James Munby (in the matter of B and G). In 2016, he was invited by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences to serve as one of a small group of “high-level experts” reporting to the Dutch government on research methods and quality control in science and medicine; he later served as a peer reviewer on the final report. He was also invited to submit materials based on his work on female and male genital cutting to a special committee of the European Parliament; this work has now been published as part of a monograph series produced by the same. Other scholarly highlights include serving as Guest Editor of the Journal of Medical Ethics for a special issue on circumcision; serving as Guest Editor for the Medical Law Review for a special issue on regulating sexual boundaries; authoring a forthcoming book on male, female, and intersex genital cutting for {{UNI|Chicago University|UChicago}} Press; and publishing more than 20 peer-reviewed essays or book chapters on the science and ethics of childhood genital cutting, including an in-depth analysis of the 2008 WHO/UN policy on "FGM" in the ''Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal'', whose editor devoted a special issue to the article, with invited responses from leading experts. Brian currently serves as Associate Editor of the ''Journal of Medical Ethics'', Associate Editor for the ''Yale Journal of Law & Humanities'', Ethics Editor for the ''Journal of Clinical and Translational Research'', and sits on the Board of Editorial Consultants for ''Public Affairs Quarterly''. New Haven, {{USSC|CT}}, USA.
* '''[[John V. Geisheker]]''', {{JD}}, {{LLM}}, has practiced medico-legal law as an arbitrator, mediator, litigator, and law lecturer for over 30 years. He is currently the full-time pro bono Director and General Counsel for [[Doctors Opposing Circumcision(D.O.C.)]], an international physicians’ charity based in Seattle, Washington. D.O.C.’s members and supporters oppose merely cultural, non-therapeutic, genital cutting of children – male, female, or intersex – on [[human rights]]’ 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, {{USSC|WA}}, USA.
* '''[[Brother K]]''' was born in Miami in 1947 and grew up in New Orleans. He studied journalism at the {{UNI|University of Illinois|UIC}}, where he earned his degree in 1969. He protested against circumcision at the California State Capital in 1980, a protest that the Associated Press and other media reported locally and across the nation. In 1986, he changed his name to Brother K in California Superior Court, an act of protest against his circumcision at birth. He formed [[Bloodstained Men]] in 2012 and has protested in cities from coast to coast. Davis, {{USSC|CA}}, USA.
* '''[[Audra Berger]] − Ms. Blu''' is a prolific singer and song-writer who puts “storytelling” to music. A music and nightclub prodigy at the age of twelve, Ms. Blu rides on the Intact America New York Pride Parade float and sings for the babies and children, helping to bring awareness about their right to bodily integrity and [[genital autonomy]]. New York, {{USSC|NY}}, USA.
* '''[[Mark D. Reiss]]''', {{MD}}, is the Executive Vice-President of [[Doctors Opposing Circumcision(D.O.C.)]]. In addition to wife, family, and San Francisco, Dr. Reiss has made [[genital autonomy]] a high priority in his life. He is the founder and administrator of Celebrants of Brit Shalom, a web-based site listing rabbis, cantors, and lay leaders who will replace the traditional ''bris'' with a non-cutting ceremony. In his spare time, he is a concert pianist. San Francisco, {{USSC|CA}}, USA.
* '''Emily Rumsey''' and '''Emily Fitzgerald''' are midwives who provide clinical care to women as well as media producers who use digital media to provide health education to families. Minneapolis, {{USSC|MN}}, USA.