Stella Tamang (Tamang)
Stella Tamang was chair of the International Indigenous Women's Caucus at the third session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, is the convenor of the South Asia Indigenous Women's Forum, and the founder and founding chair of Nepal Tamang Women Ghedung.  She is also the founder and founding Chair of National Indigenous Women Federation, Nepal which is the umbrella organization of 41 Indigenous women’s organizations of Nepal. She was one of the Commissioners of the High Level Commission on State Restructuring of Nepal.  She founded Bikalpa Gyan Tatha Bikas Kendra in Nepal to contribute to students' education and livelihood by combining academic learning with practical training. She is one of the only women facilitators and is the chair of Nepal Transition To Peace Institute.

Stephen P. Marks
Stephen P. Marks is the François-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of Health and Human Rights at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, where he directs the Program on Human Rights in Development. With degrees in law and international relations from Stanford and several universities in France, as well as the Syrian Arab Republic, he has worked for the United States Senate (Washington, DC), the International Institute of Human Rights (Strasbourg, France), UNESCO (Paris, France), the Ford Foundation (New York), UN peacekeeping operations (Cambodia, Western Sahara) and the UN Human Rights Council (Geneva). Before joining Harvard in 1999, he taught at the Law School and the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, Rutgers Law School, Cardozo School of Law, and the Woodrow Wilson School of Princeton University. He is also Distinguished Visiting Professor and Special Advisor to the Vice-Chancellor at Jindal Global University in India. His publications focus on international law, development, biotechnology, mass atrocities, terrorism, cultural rights, tobacco control, access to medicines, human rights education, neuroscience, mental health and the right to health.

Laura R. Graham
Laura R. Graham is an anthropologist, filmmaker and activist. She is professor of anthropology at the University of Iowa and president-elect of the Society for Anthropology of Lowland South America. Her research focuses on Indigenous agency and politics of representation among Indigenous Peoples of Lowland South America. She has studied and worked with A’uwẽ-Xavante of central Brazil since 1981 and more recently with Wayuu of Venezuela. Graham has written extensively on Indigenous speech, expressive culture, and forms of self-representation in national and international arenas, including ethnographic spectacle and use of new media technologies. Her books include the award-winning, Performing Dreams: Discourses of Immortality among the Xavante of Central Brazil (1995; Portuguese edition with original field recordings 2018), Performing Indigeneity: Global Histories and Contemporary Experiences (2014) and Language and Social Justice in Practice (2018). With David Hernández-Palmar (Wyauu) and Caimi Waiassé (A’uwẽ-Xavante), she co-directed the film Owners of the Water: Conflict and Collaboration over Rivers (2009).  From 1994-2005, Laura directed the Xavante Education Fund, a Cultural Survival Special Project, and now serves as a coordinator of A’uwẽ-Xavante projects with Cultural Survival. She is writing a book on A’uwẽ-Xavante uses of audiovisual technologies and their efforts to achieve representational sovereignty.