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Medea Benjamin is the cofounder of the foreign policy advocacy group Global Exchange and the women-led peace group CODEPINK. She is a cofounder of the advocacy organization Unfreeze Afghanistan. She has been active around Afghanistan for 20 years, including seeking compensation for Afghan war victims, raising funds for girls schools and advocating for an end to the U.S. military intervention.

Kelly Campbell is a co-founder of September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows and traveled to Afghanistan in January, 2002 with other 9/11 family members to call attention to Afghan civilian casualties. She is co-chair of the group’s Afghanistan committee which is currently focused on ensuring that all the Afghan Central Bank funds are returned to the Afghan people where they belong and not held for the purpose of settling lawsuits by 9/11 family members.

Sunita Viswanath is a cofounder and former board member of the 21 year old women’s organization Women for Afghan Women. She is a progressive Hindu faith leader. She is an advisory member of the advocacy organization Unfreeze Afghanistan.

Ruth Messinger is the former President and inaugural Global Ambassador of American Jewish World Service. Ruth was formerly part of the State Department’s Religion and Foreign Policy Working Group. Ruth is currently a member of the World Bank’s Moral Imperative Working Group on Extreme Poverty, doing international human rights work for AIDS Free World, serving as the inaugural Social Justice Fellow at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and is the Social Justice Activist-in-Residence at the JCC of Manhattan.

Daisy Khan is a Muslim campaigner, reformer, and executive director of the Women's Islamic Initiative in Spirituality and Equality, a women-led organization committed to peacebuilding, equality, and justice for Muslims around the world.