Diliman Abdulkader is the Co-Founder and Spokesperson of a newly established Washington based advocacy organization, American Friends of Kurdistan (AFK). AFK works to strengthen American-Kurdish relations through education and advocacy. Diliman comes from a foreign policy, national security background where he was previously director of the Kurdistan Project at EMET. He invests his time on Capitol Hill, educating lawmakers and staffers on the plight of the Kurds. Diliman frequently publishes article pertaining to the developments in the Middle East. Diliman received his MA at the American University in Washington, D.C. in international peace and conflict resolution.

Sinam Mohamad is the Representative of the Syrian Democratic Council to the United States. She has worked, often closely together with EMET, in getting support for the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria, which had been populated mainly by Kurds. She has written for the New York Times, The Defense Post , among other places, and wrote an analysis for the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.