Ame is the Director of Forced Labor & Human Trafficking at Humanity United, focusing on seafood supply chains in the Asia-Pacific. For nearly two decades Ame has worked in the global development, conservation, and labor rights space, both as a grant maker and an implementer. Ame spearheaded the administration of the Hewlett Foundation’s international education partnership venture with the Gates Foundation, with programming in Africa and India. She has also worked across the conservation movement, supporting The Nature Conservancy’s environmental programs in California and managing the Sierra Club’s fair-trade licensing and membership marketing programs. Prior to that, Ame worked with labor unions and industry associations in North America and Europe to promote union labor and leadership in a changing global economy.

Eric is a senior correspondent for The New York Times who covers counterterrorism and national security issues. He is co-author of “Counterstrike: The Untold Story of America’s Secret Campaign Against Al Qaeda.” For three decades, he has covered military and national security affairs for The Times, and has made two dozen reporting trips to Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and West Africa. He has a bachelor’s degree from Williams College and attended Harvard University's Executive Program on National and International Security. He earned a Knight Journalism Fellowship at Stanford University. Eric has shared three Pulitzer Prizes. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Reared in the San Francisco Bay area, Mr. Schmitt now lives with his family in Fairfax, Va.

As a career educator and well-experienced school leader, most recently as Superintendent of Schools in Somers, NY, Dr. Joanne Marien has led groundbreaking initiatives that set human rights’ awareness and social action as the center point of the school curricula. A longtime advisor to human rights education organizations at home and abroad, she currently serves as lead educator for Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights and regularly consults with local school districts and community-based non-profits around issues of organizational leadership. With a doctoral degree from Columbia University, Joanne is currently a clinical professor of doctoral studies in Educational Leadership at Manhattanville College where her expertise centers on leading systemic change toward more just and equitable schools.

John has over three decades of experience in non-profit leadership roles on five continents. He served as: Executive Director for Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights’ Speak Truth To Power (STTP) , the Director of the Genocide Prevention Initiative at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum , Senior Investigator with Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) where he led three investigations to the Darfur, Sudan and Afghanistan where he discovered a mass grave and was the Chief of Party for the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs in Guyana, South America. He was the founding Executive Director of the DC-based Coalition for International Justice and served as Country Representative for the former Yugoslavia for the International Rescue Committee (IRC) and managed IRC’s refugee resettlement program in Khartoum, Sudan. John also served as the Vice President of the Business Council for the United Nations in New York City. He was a Coro fellow in San Francisco and has a Master’s from Columibia University’s School of International and Public Affairs.and BA from UCSB. He is the board chair for Disability Rights International and is on the boards of the Dodd Center for Human Rights and the Educator’s Institute for Human Rights.

Producer, writer, journalist and founder of Creative Visions which she launched with her daughter Amy in 1998 to support creative activists like her son Dan who used media and arts to ignite positive change. Kathy was also the driving force behind the creation of “The Journey is the Destination,” a film about her son Dan, a photo journalist with Reuters who was tragically killed in Somalia at age 22.

Larry is the former executive director of Amnesty Interational USA (AIUSA) and before that he was Deputy Secretary General of Amnesty International. Larry was also the executive director of the Rainforest Foundation and for several years he was the senior program officer at the Ford Foundation. Most recently, he served as Co-Director of Kairos: The Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice at Union Theological Seminary in New York City.

Monika was the executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area, and has dedicated her career to human rights and social justice work.  She spent five years as executive director of the D.C. Bar Pro Bono Center and before that, Varma directed the Center for Human Rights at the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights.

Rick is a United States diplomat, educator and author. He served as the founding Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations at the U.S. Department of State and was US Ambassador to ECOSOC at the United Nations during the Obama Administration.  Currently a lecturer at Princeton University's School of Public and International Affairs, Rick is also the co-director of the university's Scholars in the Nation's Service Initiative (SINSI) with his wife, Kit Lunney  Rick is the author of “Peace Works”.

Rita is the Chief Operating Officer of Global Citizens Initiative and the former head of the sustainable investing conference program at Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights. Previously she was a management consultant focused on strategic planning and merger integration for corporations throughout the US, Europe and the Middle East. Rita advises and serves on the Board of several nonprofit organizations in the arts and social services.

Sanjay spent a decade working on-the-ground in over 40 countries on peace-building and human rights issues. His work ranged from peace lobbying to managing foundations for global celebrities. In 2011 he took a u-turn into documentary filmmaking and since then has released three feature-length films to critical and commercial acclaim - Food Chains (2014) about the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, produced by Eva Longoria and Eric Schlosser; 3100 Run and Become (2018) about indigenous and ultra-distance running practices; and GatherI (2020) about Native American food sovereignty, produced by Jason Momoa. His work has been supported by NoVo, Ford, the 11th Hour Project, Humanity United, and Bertha Philanthropies.

Taylor is a documentary filmmaker who brings two decades of professional cinematography, producing, and oral history experience to bear in film and journalism. Since 2015, he has been documenting the last chapter of Yezidi life in the Shingal mountains following the 2014 genocide against the Yezidi in Iraq. Taylor trained under Ken Burns and Lynn Novick on the seven-part series THE WAR and worked under dozens of directors on documentaries worldwide.

An educator, writer and business consultant, Trevor Hall was the president of Creative Visions Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to help individuals use media and the arts to create meaningful change. He holds a Masters of Education from Harvard University, where he worked as the head teaching fellow for Dr. Robert Coles. He has also served as the associate editor of DoubleTake Magazine, director of the Chicago Sister Cities International Program and was founding director of Open Roads Creative (a business development consultancy) and Open Roads Academy (a summer program for low-income high-school students that combines outdoor travel with an immersion in the documentary arts).