Cary Alan Johnson is the Africa Specialist at the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission. Johnson is an author and activist with more than twenty years of experience in the LGBT movement and in African social and economic development having worked in management positions for Amnesty International USA, Africare (Rwanda and Zimbabwe), UNHRC (Democratic Republic of Congo), and Planned Parenthood (Southern Africa). Johnson holds a master's degree in International Affairs and a certificate in African Studies from Columbia University and has written numerous articles on gender and sexuality in Africa.

Alice M. Miller, JD, is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Population and Family Health, at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, focusing on gender, sexuality, human rights and humanitarian issues. She also teaches at Columbia’s Schools of Law and International and Public Affairs. She works on the progressive development of international law and policy vis a vis, health, gender, sexuality and rights, with particular attention to the intersection of human rights and humanitarian action, the impact of legal regulation on rights, and rights-based approaches in health programming. She was a Rockefeller Fellow in the Program for the Study of Sexuality, Gender, Health and Human Rights at the School of Public Health.

She has worked for 20 years as staff or volunteer with NGOs, including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the International Human Rights Law Group on human rights issues in the U.S. and globally. Her scholarship and advocacy has addressed gendering humanitarian law, safe migration, and anti-trafficking policies, criminal law, and specifically abolition of the death penalty, women’s rights, sexual and reproductive health and LGBT rights. She writes and publishes regularly in both scholarly and activist venues on these topics. Miller completed her BA at Radcliffe College/Harvard University in 1979 and her JD at the University of Washington in 1985.

Sybille Nyeck is currently studying Political Science at Swarthmore College and previous studied Law and Political Science in Cameroon. She was born in Cameroon and is an asylee living in the United States. While in Cameroon, she organized the first public conference on gender and sexuality in 1997. Most of her research and activities has focused on women’s rights and sexuality. She has published articles in France, South Africa, and the U.S. surrounding the issues of gender awareness. In 2001, she became a columnist for The Witness, a journal that embraces the Christian liberal perspectives, writing on such issues as race, feminism, sexuality, African politics and religion. In addition, Nyeck is working on a documentary film which examines the construction of lesbian and gay identities as seen through the media. Nyeck is the recipient of the E. Lang Scholarship, the Audre Lorde Scholarship, The Third Wave Scholarship, and the Finch Alumae Foundation Scholarship.