Ana Aguirre was the Executive Director of the United Community Centers (UCC), a multi-service, community-based organization located in East New York, Brooklyn. Ana began working for UCC in 1993 as a community organizer and health educator. As a community organizer, Ana worked with various groups in East New York around public health issues. She developed and implemented health and social campaigns in East New York. She engaged local taxi drivers, all of them immigrants, to support annual community events to raise HIV/STDS awareness and education. Ana played a key role in bringing immigrant services to UCC like ESOL and citizenship classes and free immigration assistance to the community. 

Dr. Partha Banerjee is a human rights activist working on peace, justice, immigrant, labor and climate rights movements; writer; educator; public speaker; media critic; and a movie and music enthusiast. Born and raised in Kolkata, now based in Brooklyn with frequent visits to India, working with many grassroots organizations in India to defeat the politics of hate, violence, bigotry and war. Partha's books, media discussions and writings focus on religious, social, caste and gender equality, as well as corporate media's monopoly, exclusion of substantive news, and brainwashing. He can be found on Wikipedia at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partha_Banerjee, and blog at onefinalblog.com.

Mimi Rosenberg spent the last 36 years as an anti-poverty lawyer, specializing in peoples’ right to choose housing free from unlawful discrimination and eviction prevention of indigent tenants, coupled with affirmative anti-dislocation litigation for entire neighborhoods, both in the private and public housing arenas, with the Brooklyn Neighborhood Office of The Legal Aid Society. Mimi worked for many years as the Director of the South Bronx Workers’ Center, and helped to found The City-wide Action Group Against Neighborhood Destruction & For Low-Rent Housing as well as the The Black United Front Support Committee. Mimi produced the multi-award winning Building Bridges radio, the now oldest, longest running, nationally distributed, labor-oriented, radio program in the country, on its home station WBAI 99.5 FM, and its companion program Equal Rights & Justice. These programs are intended to educate, agitate and organize to empower we the people and for another world is possible with the tools and initiative to make it so. 

Sarah Leah Whitson is the Executive Director of Democracy for the Arab World Now, founded by the late Jamal Khashoggi, which works to reform U.S. policy in the Middle East. Previously, she served as executive director of Human Rights Watch's Middle East and North Africa Division from 2004 – 2020, overseeing the work of the division in 19 countries, with staff located in 10 countries. Whitson has led dozens of advocacy and investigative missions throughout the region, focusing on issues of armed conflict, accountability, legal reform, migrant workers, and human rights. She has published widely on human rights and foreign policy in the Middle East in international and regional media.