Correspondent

The Iraqi army is leading an attack on the city of Mosul in an attempt to battle ISIS and we FEATURE Jane Arraf. Jane is a reporter based in Baghdad for Al Jazeera America and the Christian Science Monitor. She has covered the Middle East since 1991. She was CNN's Baghdad bureau chief and senior Baghdad correspondent between 1998 and 2005. In the late 1990s she was the only Western correspondent permanently based in Iraq. Arraf was the 2005-2006 Edward R. Murrow Press Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York and later a senior adjunct fellow. She has also reported extensively for NBC News. Her work has appeared in magazines and on NPR's "All Things Considered."

Country Director - Morocco

With the return of twenty-one Chibok schoolgirls after two years of captivity under Boko Haram, we FEATURE Lena Alhusseini. Ms. Alhusseini is the Executive Director of Arab American Family Support Center as Executive Director in April 06 after a number of years at the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC), where she served as international outreach project manager on issues of child protection, abduction and child trafficking. Before coming to the U.S., Alhusseini served with a number of international organizations around the world on issues pertaining to child protection and human trafficking, including USAID and UNICEF.

Special Litigation and Policy Counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund

With claims that the 2016 Presidential election is rigged, voters are being suppressed, and foreign entities are hacking the system, we FEATURE Brenda Wright. Brenda Wright is the Vice President of Legal Strategies at Demos. She has led many progressive legal and policy initiatives on voting rights, campaign finance reform, redistricting, election administration and other democracy and electoral reform issues and is a nationally known expert in these areas. Before joining Demos in 2007, Brenda served as Managing Attorney at the National Voting Rights Institute in Boston. Brenda also served previously as Director of the Voting Rights Project at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law in Washington, D.C. Media induces: Huffington Post, Time Magazine, The American Prospect, Finalcall.com

Country Representative for Papua New Guinea

With rich nations standing by their promise to fund efforts to tackle Climate Change in developing countries to the tune of one hundred billion dollars, we FEATURE Dr. Achala Abeysinghe. Dr. Abeysinghe is a Principal Researcher and Team Leader of Climate Law, Policy and Governance Programme at International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), London. Dr. Abeysinghe also works as the legal advisor to the Chair of the Least Developed Countries Group- a group of 48 countries, in the UN climate change negotiations. Her research interests are in legal issues in the UN climate change negotiations, issues related to equity & fairness, adaptation to climate change and finance for climate change adaptation. Media includes: IIED, Dhaka Tribune, Inside Climate News, The Conversation.

State Representative for FL 42

Planned Parenthood turned 100 this weekend, we FEATURE Anna Vishkaee Eskamani. Anna serves as the Senior Director of Public Affairs and Field Operations for Planned Parenthood of Southwest and Central Florida. In December 2015 Anna completed her dual degree program at UCF pursuing a masters in both Public Administration and Nonprofit Management with a certificate in Gender Studies. A Certified Nonprofit Professional, she will begin teaching at UCF with the Women’s and Gender Studies Program this fall and will also begin her PhD program in Public Affairs. Media includes: Central Florida Future, Orlando Sentinel, the Huffington Post, the Independent Journal Review.