Co-Founder & CEO

With increasing media coverage on fighting campus sexual assault, we FEATURE Angela Esquivel. Esquivel is co-founder and Executive Director of the As One Project, a non-profit organization that provides resources, support, and education for friends and family of survivors of sexual violence. A survivor of sexual assault, Angela has committed herself to leveraging traumatic experiences into powerful catalysts for change. For the past two years, she has taught a sex-positive, consent-based course in Human Sexuality at GWU and she advises student organizations who focus on issues related to gender, sexuality, and sexual violence. Media Includes: Huffington Post, US Capitol, GW Hatchet, and As One Project

Senior Climate Scientist and Director of Climate Science for the Climate and Energy Program

In light of Obama's impending visit to India to announce a joint effort to fight climate change, we FEATURE Brenda Ekwurzel. Ekwurzel works on the national climate program at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS). She is leading UCS's climate science education work aimed at strengthening support for strong federal climate legislation and sound U.S. climate policies. She has published on topics that include climate variability and fire, isotopic dating of groundwater, Arctic Ocean tracer oceanography, paleohydrology, and coastal sediment erosion. Media Includes: CNN, FOX News, ABC World News, USA Today, NPR, and Good Morning America

Adjunct professor

With the recent arrests of journalists in Turkey, we FEATURE Belinda Cooper. Cooper is a Senior Fellow at the World Policy Institute, where she directs the program on Turkey: Democratization, Human Rights and Security, and an adjunct professor at New York University’s Center for Global Affairs. Cooper, an expert on human rights and international and transitional justice, is the editor of “War Crimes: The Legacy of Nuremberg,” which explores the interconnections between the Nuremberg tribunal and today’s international criminal courts. Media Includes: NY Times, Newsweek, World Policy Journal, Christian Science Monitor, Forward, and LA Weekly

Senior Director, Strategic Initiatives

In response to the Sydney Siege where three people died, including the gunman, we FEATURE Ms. Deepa Iyer. Iyer, former Executive Director of South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT), has been a civil and immigrant rights advocate for over a decade. An immigrant who moved to the United States when she was twelve, Ms. Iyer has devoted her professional career to advocacy and communications on : Asian Americans; South Asian Americans; immigration; civil rights and race relations in a majority-minority nation; hate violence, xenophobia and Islamaphobia in a post 9/11 environment. Media Includes: NY Times, USA Today, Huffington Post, NPR, Detroit Free Press, and 9-11 Moment