Felicity Arengo is a conservation biologist, a scientist who studies wildlife, ecosystems, and how humans and nature can coexist and thrive together. For the last 18 years she has been the Associate Director at the Center for Biodevirsity and Conservation of the American Museum of Natural History. She holds a PhD on Wildlife Ecology and Conservation Biology at the State University of New York.

Mercedes earned an advanced degree in Anthropological Sciences in 1987 from the National University of Buenos Aires. She is a co-founder or the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team, a non-governmental, not-for-profit, scientific organization that applies forensic sciences to the investigation of human rights violations and in humanitarian contexts. Mercedes has worked at the Philippines, Chile, Venezuela, Guatemala, El Salvador, Iraq, Brazil, Croatia, Ethiopia, Haiti, Panama, French Polynesia, South Africa, Ethiopia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Bosnia, Herzegovina, East Timor, Zimbabwe, Ivory Coast, Indonesia, and Mexico. Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and the United Nations regularly use her investigations in reporting on human rights.

Roxanna Altholz is an international human rights lawyer and scholar with extensive experience in international and national fora. She is a Clinical Professor of Law and Co-Director of International Human Rights Law Clinicat the University of Berkley. She has won several ground-breaking judgments from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, provided expert testimony before UN human rights groups, and initiated legal actions on behalf of human rights victims in U.S. federal courts. She has also developed advocacy and research initiatives to address human rights violations suffered by asylum seekers and migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border, to examine the human rights impacts of unsolved murders in Oakland, and to understand accountability mechanisms for private companies receiving international financing.

Viviana Krsticevic is the Executive Director of the Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL). She received her law degree from the University of Buenos Aires, has a master’s degree in Latin American studies from Stanford University, and a master’s degree in law from Harvard University. Viviana Krsticevic has developed numerous advocacy and litigation activities in the Americas. In particular, she litigated more than two hundred cases before the Inter-American Commission and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights on key issues for the protection of human rights and the strengthening of the rule of law. Her work has contributed to the expansion of the agenda of international human rights law. Since 2015, she actively participates in the management of the Equal campaign on parity in international representation.

Alejandro is an expert on management, fundraising and strategic thinking, working in the civic, social & human rights sector for more than 20 years. He has been working for the last three years on the intersection between business development and human rights, finding ways to enhance business initiatives that promote civil and political rights. His most recent role was Institutional Director at Nilus, a social enterprise creating healthy and affordable food markets for low income communities. Prior to that, he was Deputy Director at the Centre for Justice and International Law (CEJIL), one of the most renowned human rights organizations in Latin America. He also worked for other several non-profits such as CELS and EAAF.