Marie E. Berry is an Associate Professor of International Comparative Politics at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver, and Director of the Sié Chéou-Kang Center for International Security and Diplomacy. She is also the Director of the Inclusive Global Leadership Initiative (IGLI), an effort to catalyze research, education, and programming aimed at elevating and amplifying the work that women activists are doing at the grassroots to advance peace and security across the world. She also directs the annual IGLI Summer Institute.

Her first book, War, Women, and Power: From Violence to Mobilization in Rwanda and Bosnia-Herzegovina (Cambridge University Press 2018), examines the impact of war and genocide on women’s political mobilization in Rwanda and Bosnia. Her second book project explores women’s participation in mass movements for social change across the world. Her work has been published in outlets including Gender & Society, Democratization, Signs, New Political Economy, Mobilization, Politics & Gender, Foreign Policy, The Society Pages, and Political Violence @ A Glance. She completed her Ph.D. in sociology at UCLA in 2015.

Milli Lake is an Associate Professor in International Security in the International Relations Department at the London School of Economics. Her research examines questions of state-building, institutional reform, (in)security and political violence in post-conflict and post-colonial states, predominantly in sub-Saharan Africa. Her first book: Strong NGOs and Weak States (Cambridge University Press 2018) explores the challenges and opportunities faced by activists and organizations pursuing gender justice in the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Africa. Her research is published in the American Political Science Review, International Organization, Law and Society Review, International Studies Quarterly, World Development, the Annual Review of Law and Social Science and PS: Political Science & Politics among other outlets. She completed her Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of Washington in 2014.

Sinduja Raja is a Doctoral Student in International Studies, with a focus on gender and security, from the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver . She is also one of ten awardees of the Sie Fellowship and scholarship from the Sié Chéou-Kang Center for International Security and Diplomacy. Prior to this, she obtained a Master of Arts in Development Studies from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras where her Master’s thesis focused on the indeterminate status of the Indian Peacekeeping Forces deployed in the Sri Lankan Civil War. Her current research interests are in understanding the gendered relationship between state, society and violence, particularly in South Asia.

Soraya Zarook is an Assistant Professor of Postcolonial Literature at Old Dominion University. She received her A.A. at Ventura College, her B.A. at California State University, Channel Islands, and her Ph.D. at the University of California, Riverside. Her dissertation engages with Sri Lankan Anglophone literature to ask how these works make ethical demands of readers. She traces how this literature resists “trauma” as it has come to be understood, practiced, and theorized within the Western academy. She is also a member of the SWANA (South Asia, West Asia, and North Africa) Region Radio Collective.

Luisa Salazar is a Human Rights lawyer from the Universidad del Rosario (Colombia). She holds a Master of Science in Social Policy (Research) from the London School of Economics and Political Science and is a scholarship holder from LSE. Luisa was a researcher for over four years on the Justice Observatory from the Electoral Observation Mission (MOE). Currently, she is Regional Coordinator of the Gender, Justice and Security Hub at Universidad de los Andes (Colombia) and a Lecturer at Universidad del Rosario and Universidad de los Andes. She co-founded the Center for Inclusion, Citizenship and Rights - INCIDE, an NGO that develops educational programmes for the strengthening of democracy and peacebuilding in Colombia, in 2010. Her research focuses on women's political participation, political reforms after the peace process with FARC, and gender mainstreaming strategy in post-conflict policies among others areas.

Ana María is currently the Director of Data Analytics at the World Justice Project. She is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at Duke University and holds a B.A. and M.A. in Political Science from Universidad de los Andes (Colombia). Her research focuses on the judicial enforcement of land restitution orders and the public authorities' compliance with these judicial decisions protecting property rights in Colombia. She has several years of experience researching topics related to the emergence of the rule of law in conflict and post-conflict settings. She has worked in different research capacities with academic, governmental, and international organizations, including the General Inspector Office in Colombia, and LAPOP at Vanderbilt University. Prior to join WJP, she was a Minerva Peace and Security Scholar at the United States Institute of Peace and was affiliated with the DevLab at Duke where she collaborates on the design and evaluation of international development programs. She conducted an evaluation of the USAID’s Land and Rural Development Program in Colombia.

Dhana Hamal is a Ph.D. candidate at the Political Science Department of Johns Hopkins University. She holds an MA in political science from the University of Toronto, where she focused on questions of constitutional federalism in periods of democratic transition, and a BA in Human Rights and Political Studies from Bard College. She has years of research assistantship experience on a large scale (N = 5,000) study of human trafficking vulnerability in Nepal, based out of UC Berkeley and Osgood Hall Law School at York University, Toronto. Her broad research interests lie at the intersection of feminist politics, constitutional structure and contested legal change.