Arti Mohan is a pioneer and advocate of restorative justice in India. She is a former lawyer who represented child survivors through the legal trial. After witnessing the inadequacy of the legal system in meeting survivors’ justice needs, she worked on designing, implementing, and expanding a restorative justice pilot in New Delhi from 2017 to 2023. She has designed and facilitated restorative healing circles for child survivors, as well as reintegration restorative circles and restorative justice processes for children in conflict with the law.  Arti has extensively trained governmental and non-governmental stakeholders including lawyers, judges, academia, civil society, and frontline workers on restorative justice as well as trauma-informed practice. Arti has also contributed to restorative justice research, including being the Lead Editor of the “Restorative Justice Around the Globe” project published in 2022. She teaches restorative justice at leading law schools in India as well as the Vermont Law School in the USA. Arti is passionate about exploring non-carceral, decolonized justice responses for survivors. She is currently a member of the European Forum for Restorative Justice’s Committee on designing values and standards for restorative justice. 

Tina Musuya has over 16 years of experience working with communities, police, civil society, local government, and policy makers to prevent violence against women—mainly in the East African region—and is currently the Senior Technical Expert on Gender-Based Violence for the INGO, Social Development Direct. Prior this position, Tina served as the Executive Director of the Centre for Domestic Violence Prevention (CEDOVIP).  Under her guidance, CEDOVIP won the 2010 UNAIDS Red Ribbon Award for innovative work in preventing violence against women and HIV and also led the successful pilot of the SASA! program in Kampala, a ground breaking initiative that reduced physical intimate partner violence by 52%, and which showed that preventing violence against women (VAW) through social norm change is possible. She led colleagues at CEDOVIP to address challenges of mediation in domestic violence cases through responsibility sessions in a way that is significantly different and safer for all involved than traditional mediation has been. She also led an initiative alongside UNDP Uganda that successfully embedded GBV protection into local wetland restoration and environmental resilience programs, which resulted in the report, “Why Climate Change Fuels Gender-Based Violence.” Additionally, Tina helped draft and successfully campaigned for the passage of the Domestic Violence Act in Uganda. Tina holds various honorary positions including being a member of the coordinating committee of Coalition of feminists for Social Change (COFEM).

Dr. Monica J. Casper is a sociologist, bioethicist, creative writer, and breast cancer survivor who studies gender, health, bodies, disability, violence, and trauma. A native Chicagoan, she earned her B.A. at the University of Chicago and her Ph.D. at the University of California, San Francisco. She also completed a postdoctoral fellowship in bioethics at Stanford University. Dr. Casper is a professor of sociology and the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Seattle University. Previously she held leadership roles at San Diego State University, the University of Arizona, Arizona State University, and Vanderbilt University. She is the author of eight books, including "Babylost: Racism, Survival, and the Quiet Politics of Infant Mortality, From A to Z (Rutgers University Press, 2022)," numerous journal articles, and more than 60 essays and op-eds. Her most recent book is a co-edited collection, "Betrayal U: The Politics of Belonging in Higher Education," published by the University of Arizona Press in 2025. Dr. Casper is currently researching traumatic brain injury, with Daniel Morrison; vulvar health and politics, with Laura Sheard; and elephant-human conflict. She is the editor in chief of the Journal of Contemporary Ethnography and is also crafting a novel called "The Motherhood Museum."

Michael Brasher, PhD, is a researcher, writer, educator, and longtime gender-based violence prevention practitioner whose work focuses on men, masculinities, and perpetration. Before returning to academia, he spent years in the anti-violence movement working directly with survivors and their families, facilitating intervention with abusive men, and developing prevention work with men and boys. Trained as a geographer, his current research examines the historical and spatial relationships among masculinity, ownership, racial domination, and gender-based violence in the United States. His forthcoming book, How to Make Him Stop: The Geography of Ownership & Perpetration, asks what becomes possible when we shift our attention from why women experience violence to the harder question of what produces abusive men—and what it would actually take to make them stop. He is also the founder of Life Unbound Coaching, where his work with men continues to explore accountability, connection, and alternative ways of being in relationship with ourselves and others.

Dr. Luwei Ying is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Her research focuses on international conflict and security, with a focus on how extremist and militant movements recruit, communicate, finance themselves, and adapt to efforts to contain them. Dr. Ying’s paper, Gateways to White Nationalism: Leaders’ Online Rhetoric and Follower Engagement, explores how masculinity/misogynistic messaging is the number one recruit tool that White Nationalists use to lure men into its movement, a theme she further explores in relation to all violent extremist movements in her forthcoming book, The Logic of Terrorist Propaganda. Her work has garnered multiple awards and is published in leading journals such as the American Political Science Review, Political Analysis, the Journal of Politics and the Journal of Conflict Resolution.​ She earned her Ph.D. in 2022 from Washington University in St. Louis and holds B.A. degrees in International Politics and Journalism & Communication from Tsinghua University.

Kathryn Huether, Ph.D., is an interdisciplinary scholar whose research examines artificial intelligence, digital media, and contemporary formations of hate and extremism. She is Director of the Project on AI and Extremism at UCLA’s Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies and leads the Social Media and Disinformation Pillar of UCLA’s Large Language Lab. Her current research investigates how generative AI and digital platforms shape knowledge, historical memory, and the circulation of extremist ideologies, with particular attention to antisemitism, gender-based violence and misogyny, and the mediation of mass violence, genocide, and the Holocaust. A violinist trained as a musicologist and sound studies scholar, Huether also examines how music, voice, language, and other forms of sonic communication encode and amplify ideological meaning, particularly when that meaning is implicit, affective, or difficult to identify through text alone. Her current book project, “Sounding Hate: Sonic Politics in the Age of Platforms and AI,” brings these questions into conversation with research on online extremism, platform cultures, and generative AI. Her first book, “Film Music and the Holocaust,” is under contract with Indiana University Press and examines the role of music and sound in shaping cinematic encounters with Holocaust history.

Founded in 2017, Teatro Dignidad is a theatre company in Tucson, Arizona that is committed to producing plays that encourage critical thinking about the root causes of injustice and the need for human rights.  As a border organization, their work is largely focused on uplifting the voices of local and internationally marginalized immigrant groups.  They are committed to producing work in both English and Spanish and firmly believe that Spanish speaking communities deserve access to the theatrical arts and to hear their stories told. In February of 2019, Teatro Dignidad proudly established itself under the umbrella and fiscal sponsorship of Coalición de Derechos Humanos, a leading immigrants’ rights organization in the border and are aligned with their advocacy efforts. Founder and Artistic Director Alba Jaramillo says, “As an immigrant, immigration lawyer, activist, and actor I was often disappointed in the choices of plays and projects presented at many theater companies, and of the few opportunities offered to women of color.  I also believed, and still do, that the arts present opportunities to offer ideas and experiences that speak to the needs of vulnerable persons and communities.  My hope is that by promoting human rights through theater, and giving voice to issues, we will motivate audiences to demand change.”