Founder and CEO

As President Obama travels to Saudi Arabia to meet with the new king following the death of King Abdullah, we SPOTLIGHT Sofana R. Dahlan. Ms. Sofana R. Dahlan is CEO and founder of Taskeil, a Saudi Arabia based enterprise that incubates and promotes creative entrepreneurs. She was chosen to participate in the Harvard Executive program "Leading for the Future:The Arab Region in a Changing World" where she represented Tashkeil's Scio-Economic Cycle. She was the first Saudi female to be given permission to study law by the Saudi Ministry of Higher Education and has worked as a legal scholar in Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon and Kuwait. She has appeared on Al Jazeera, LBC, and in Arab News.

Special Litigation and Policy Counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund

As the Koch brothers budget to spend $889 million on political campaigns for the 2016 presidential election, we FEATURE Brenda Wright. Brenda is the Vice President of Legal Strategies at Demos, a public policy organization that works for American's equality in speech and economy. Brenda is an expert and has held many legal and policy initiatives on voting rights, campaign finance reform, redistricting, election administration and other democracy and electoral reform issues. She argued the Randall v. Sorrell case dealing with campaign finance before the U.S. Supreme Court. Previously, she served as Managing Attorney at the National Voting Rights Institute in Boston and as Director of Voting Rights Project at the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law in Washington, D.C. Media includes: Demos, Rutgers Law Review

Adjunct professor

Tuesday marks the 70th Anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. We FEATURE Belinda Cooper, the editor of "War Crimes:The Legacy of Nuremberg," which explores the interconnections between the Nuremberg tribunal and today's international criminal courts. She is a Senior Fellow at the World Policy Institute, where she directs programs on Turkey: Democratization, Human Rights and Security and is an adjunct professor at New York University's Center for Global Affairs. She serves as translator for a number of books and articles, including many works on Nazi Germany, the Holocaust and a textbook on international criminal law. Media includes: New York Times, World Policy Journal, Christian Science Monitor, Deutsche Welle Radio

Chief Health Equity Officer and Senior Vice President

While the measles outbreak in California continues to spread, and with international donors committing $7.8 million to fund vaccination worldwide, we FEATURE Aletha Maybank,MD, MPH. Dr. Maybank is currently an Assistant Commissioner at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and is a Founding Board Member of the Artemis Medical Society. Dr. Maybank has been a medical expert on MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry Show, Disney Jr.'s DocMcStuffins, WBLS Daily Dose, Good Morning America, WABC Here and Now, BET-106 & Park, HuffPost Live, FOX 5 Good Day Street Talk, and Our World with Black Enterprise. Additionally, she is a weekly Medical Contributor on Arise American on ARISE TV.