Ellen Chesler, Ph.D., Chair - Director, Eleanor Roosevelt Initiative on Women and Public Policy, Roosevelt House, Hunter College of the City University of New York.

Mahnaz Afkhami - founder and president of the Women's Learning Partnership.

Helen Bernstein - women's rights supporter.

Cynthia Brown - consultant on human rights and related issues. Former Human Rights Watch program director.

David Brown - founder and president of Penobscot Management, LLC., a real estate development firm. He is also a Human Rights Watch board member.

Beverlee Bruce - former program director at the Social Science Research Council.

Charlotte Bunch - founder and executive director of the Center for Women's Global Leadership.

Rebecca J. Cook - co-director of the International Programme on Reproductive and Sexual Health Law at the University of Toronto.

Joanne Csete - interim executive director of the Firelight Foundation. She was the founding director of the HIV/AIDS Program at Human Rights Watch and former executive director of the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network.

Julie Dorf - founder of the International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Commission and director of philanthropic services and development at the Horizons Foundation.

Babeth Fribourg - former deputy director of the Kahn-Valler Gallery in Paris, France. Attentive mother to seven.

Adrienne Germain - president of the International Women's Health Coalition.

Nancy Hechinger - specialist in using technology to enhance education and inspire children to learn and former founding Director of the National Center for Science Literacy, Education, and Technology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.

Marina Pinto Kaufman - women's rights supporter.

Stephen Lewis - former UN Secretary-General's Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa.

Lorraine Loder - business attorney and former adjunct professor at Loyola Law School at Loyola Marymount University.

Joyce Mends-Cole - UNHCR representative in Namibia and Liberian lawyer.

Yolanda Moses - associate vice chancellor for diversity, excellence, and equity, and vice provost for conflict resolution at the University of California, Riverside.

Samuel Murumba - professor of law at Brooklyn Law School. He is also a Human Rights Watch board member.

Marysa Navarro-Aranguren - professor of history at Dartmouth College.

Sylvia Neil - founder and chair of the Project on Gender, Culture, Religion and the Law at Brandeis University and adjunct professor at Northwestern University School of Law

Martha Nussbaum - professor at the University of Chicago Law School.

Susan Osnos - consultant and former communications director at Human Rights Watch.

Kathleen Peratis, Chair Emerita - partner at Outten & Golden specializing in employment discrimination law.

Marina Pisklakova - Russian women's rights activist and author.

Lynn Povich, Vice-Chair - co-chair of the International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF) and consultant with The New York Times Foundation on its 9/11 Neediest Fund.

Bruce Rabb - attorney with the law firm of Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP. He is also Secretary of Human Rights Watch and an Emeritus board member.

Lorraine Sheinberg - activist for women and an advocate for children. Former actor-producer-literary agent.

Domna Stanton - distinguished professor of French at the City University of New York.

Pascaline Servan-Schreiber - co-founder of MyMatina.

Rita Wasserstein Warner - is head of the matrimonial department of Coblence & Warner, a NYC-based law firm specializing in matrimonial, commercial, and intellectual property litigation.