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Ambassador Michele J. Sison

Assistant Secretary of State of the Bureau of International Organization Affairs, U.S. Department of State

Mary Lawlor

Special Rapporteur on human rights defenders

Amber Barth

Director, ILO Office for the United States and Canada

Jessie Ainslie

Government Liaison Associate, UNHCR Multi-Country Office in Washington

Kathryn Kross

Executive Director of Communications, Better World Campaign

The Honorable Volker Türk

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

Na-Yeon Park

Foreign Service Officer, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)

Alicia Contreras-Donello

Foreign Service Officer, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)

Chioma Okafor

Senior Technical Advisor for Local Capacity Strengthening, Global Communities

Adrian Grieve

Disaster State Relations Director for the Central Atlantic Division, American Red Cross

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