Rudi Pauwels is a Belgian pharmacologist and biotech entrepreneur.
Awa Marie Coll-Seck is as Senegalese infectious diseases specialist and politician who served as Minister of Health of Senegal from 2001 to 2003 and again from 2012 to 2017. She also served as former Executive Director of the Roll Back Malaria Partnership and is on the board of directors of several notable global health organizations. She is an agenda contributor of the World Economic Forum.
Gudrun Veronika Kugler, née Lang, also known as Kugler-Lang, is a Roman Catholic theologian, jurist, and ÖVP-member of Austria's National Council.
The William Way LGBT Community Center is a nonprofit organization serving the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender population of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and nearby communities, located at 1315 Spruce Street in Philadelphia in the Gayborhood.
Virginia C. "Jenny" Graham is an American businesswoman and politician serving in the Washington State House of Representatives for Washington's 6th legislative district, having first won the seat in the 2018 elections. She was re-elected in 2020.
Pamela Nasiyo Kamugo is a Ugandan social worker and legislator. As of April 2020, she has served as the elected woman member of parliament for Budaka district in the tenth Parliament of Uganda and eleventh Parliament of Uganda. She is affiliated with the National Resistance Movement, the ruling party of Uganda led by Yoweri Museveni, the country's president
Derek Andrew Ogg QC was a Scottish lawyer who, through the Historical Sexual Offences Pardons and Disregards Scotland Bill, campaigned for automatic pardons for gay and bisexual men with historical convictions of sexual offences that are no longer illegal in Scotland. In 1983 Ogg established the Scottish HIV and AIDS awareness charity Scottish AIDS Monitor.
Pamela Sue Jumper-Thurman, Ph.D. is an American academic researcher, epidemiologist, evaluator, and grantsmanship consultant. She is best known for her role in the development of the Community Readiness Model and as co-editor of the legacy book Cherokee National Treasures: In Their Own Words. She is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation and a jeweler.
Marguerita Lightfoot is a counseling psychologist known for her research in the field of preventive medicine, especially in regard to HIV prevention and advocacy for homeless youth. She is Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine and the Chief of the Division of Prevention Science. She serves on the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Committee on Fostering Healthy Mental, Emotional, and Behavioral Development among Children and Youth.
Marni von Wilpert is an American attorney and politician serving as a member of the San Diego City Council representing the 5th district. She assumed office on December 10, 2020, succeeding Mark Kersey.
Scottish AIDS Monitor (SAM) was a Scottish HIV and AIDS awareness organisation that was active between 1983 and 1996.
Bolaji Olufunmileyi Owasanoye is a Nigerian lawyer and human rights activist. He currently serves as the Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, an anticorruption agency in Nigeria.
SethembisoPromise Mthembu is a South African human rights activist and researcher, best known for her work on HIV/AIDS and women's rights. One of the first women in South Africa to publicly share that she was living with HIV, Mthembu is a founder of the Gugu Dlamini Action Group, the Young Woman's Dialogue, and the Her Rights Initiative.
Lebogang Brenda Motsumi is a South African HIV activist and writer. She has been named a "Youth Hero" by the African Union, and she is a member of youth advisory boards at both the UNFPA and the African Union.
Malika Mezzane is a Moroccan poet, a writer, and a Berber rights activist.
Kay Firth-Butterfield is a lawyer, professor, and author specializing in the intersection of artificial intelligence, international relations, and AI ethics. She is currently serving as the head of AI and machine learning at the World Economic Forum. She was an adjunct professor of law at the University of Texas at Austin.
Malika Redmond is an American activist and nonprofit organization director for women and girls. Her writing and activism predominantly focuses on reproductive justice, especially pertaining to women of color, as well as civic engagement, women’s rights, leadership development for Black youth and women, and racial justice. She is currently the co-founder and chief executive officer of Women Engaged, an American non-profit that advances women’s human rights, youth empowerment, and civic engagement efforts in Georgia. Women Engaged provides leadership development opportunities, public policy advocacy, community-building initiatives, and year round non-partisan voter engagement campaigns to various counties in Georgia. The organization was created in 2014 by Redmond and Margaret Kargbo.
Grace Yia-Hei Kao is an Asian American professor of ethics, who specializes in animal and human rights, ecofeminism, and Asian American Christianity. Kao earned her Bachelor of Arts and Masters of Arts degrees from Stanford University, and her PhD. at Harvard University. She is Professor of Ethics at Claremont School of Theology, and was the first Asian American woman to receive tenure there. She has been appointed as the interim Bishop Roy I. Sano and Kathleen A. Thomas-Sano Endowed Chair in Pacific and Asian Theology. Kao is also the co-director of the Center for Sexuality, Gender, and Religion (CSGR).
Adejoke Aderonke Tugbiyele is a Nigerian-American multidisciplinary visual artist and activist. She is known primarily as a sculptor, performer, and filmmaker, but has also worked in painting, drawing, and textiles. Her work deals with issues of human rights, queer rights and women's rights. She lives in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
Fatima Waziri-Azi is a Nigerian lawyer and the Director General of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) of Nigeria. Before her appointment at NAPTIP she was an advisor on the rule of law to the President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari. She is a former Head of Department of Public Law at the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and she is a woman rights advocate and a campaigner against domestic and sexual based violence.
