Kelly Dawn Askin, BS, JD, PhD (law), serves as Senior Legal Officer, International Justice, with Open Society Justice Initiative. She is also a 2004-2005 Fulbright New Century Scholar on the Global Empowerment of Women and Fellow, Yale Law School. Askin has taught or served as a visiting scholar at Notre Dame, Washington College of Law, Harvard, and Yale. She also served as Executive Director of the International Criminal Justice Institute and American University’s War Crimes Research Office. Askin has served as an expert consultant, legal advisor, or international law trainer to prosecutors, judges, and registry at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, the Serious Crimes Unit in East Timor, the International Criminal Court, and the Special Court for Sierra Leone.

She has lectured in over 65 countries and has published extensively in international criminal law, international humanitarian law, and gender justice, including her book War Crimes Against Women: Prosecution in International War Crimes Tribunals (1997) and the three-volume treatise Women and International Human Rights Law (1999, 2001, 2002, co-editor). She serves on the board of several organizations, including the Executive Board of the American Branch of the International Law Association, the International Judicial Academy, International Criminal Law Services, and the International Journal of Criminal Law.

Tracey Gurd serves as the junior legal officer for the International Justice program with the Open Society Justice Initiative. She has previously served as a journalist, an academic fellow in law, and an international policy advisor for the Australian government in both Australia and Central Europe. Tracey is the joint editor of an academic collection on women and armed conflict.

Ruth Rubio Marin is Professor of Public Law at the University of Seville, Spain and part of the Hauser Global Law School Program and New York University. She is author and editor of several books including Immigration as a Democratic Challenge (Cambridge University Press, 2000); editor of Mujer e Igualdad: la Norma y su Aplicacion (Women and Equality: the Norm and its Application) (Instituto Andaluz de la Mujer, Sevilla, 1999), and co-editor of The Gender of Constitutional Jurisprudence (Cambridge University Press, 2004). She is also the author of several articles and book chapters including "Women and the Cost of Transition to Democratic Constitutionalism in Spain," International Sociology, 2003, vol 18:1, and "Constitutional Domestication of International Gender Norms: Categorizations, Illustrations and Reflections from the Nearside of the Bridge" with M. Morgan, in Gender and Human Rights, K. Knopp, editor (Oxford University Press, 2004).

Marin has taught at different North American academic institutions including Princeton University and Columbia Law School, and has worked as a consultant in antidiscrimination theory and policy for the European Commission. She is currently working as a consultant for the International Center for Transitional Justice managing a major research project on gender and reparations in societies undergoing transition to democracy.

M. Kelli Muddell graduated from North Park College of Chicago with a BA in Sociology in 1996. She received a Presidential Fellowship to attend Fordham University, where she earned an MA in International Political Economy and Development with a concentration in Development Studies. While in graduate school, she interned in the Africa Division of Human Rights Watch, and was a contributing writer for its World Report 2000.

Originally from Sri Lanka, Vasuki Nesiah joined the International Center for Transitional Justice following a teaching fellowship with the Human Rights Institute at Columbia Law School and a consultancy on minority rights and conflict resolution with the Rockefeller Foundation. She has published and lectured in international and comparative law, feminist theory, law and development, postcolonial studies, constitutionalism, and governance in plural societies.

Nesiah is also an adjunct associate professor at Columbia University, where she teaches in the Human Rights Program of the School of Public and International Affairs (SIPA). She completed her doctorate in public international law at Harvard Law School, where she also received her JD with honors. She holds a BA in philosophy and political science from Cornell University. She was also a visiting student of philosophy, politics, and economics at Oxford University.

Debra L. Schultz is Director of Programs for the OSI's Network Women’s Program, which promotes the advancement of women’s human rights as an integral part of building open societies. At OSI, she works to build regional women’s networks, including gender studies networks, and to develop new frameworks for women’s human rights activism, including the Romani women’s rights movement (the subject of her current research). She is the author of Going South: Jewish Women in the Civil Rights Movement (New York University Press). Her work as a feminist oral historian focuses on documenting women’s cross-racial alliances for social change. She is the former Assistant Director of the National Council for Research on Women.