Adjaratou Wakha Aïdara is the Executive Director of Partners West Africa (PWA), a volunteer-driven non-profit based in Senegal that serves underprivileged communities through sustainable development initiatives. Aidara Ndiaye is a member of the Africa Center for Strategic Studies and the African Security Sector Network. She has worked with the U.S. Institute of Peace to foster…

Mallory Knodel is the Head of the Digital team at Article 19, a NGO that supports free expression around the world. She is also the technology policy lead for the Association for Progressive Communications, where she focuses on the intersection of digital media and internet governance.

Vladimir Kara-Murza coordinates Open Russia, a platform for civil society activists, and is a member of the federal council of the People’s Freedom Party and “Solidarity,” a democratic movement. He has been published in the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and the Financial Times, authored a book entitled Reform or Revolution, and was nearly…

Amr Hamzawy is an Egyptian political scientist who currently serves as a senior research scholar at the Center for Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law at Stanford University. Hamzawy is a former member of the People’s Assembly, after being elected in the first Parliamentary elections in Egypt after the January 25, 2011 revolution. He…