Sadia Abbas, an associate professor of postcolonial studies at Rutgers University-Newark, is the author of At Freedom’s Limit: Islam and the Postcolonial Predicament,  and the novel The Empty Room, [considered for the DSC prize for South Asian Literature.]

Nii Akuetteh has spent 4 decades agitating for democratic progress in and better US policy toward Africa while serving as a CEO of nonprofits and instructor at Georgetown and George Washington University.

Michael Beer is the Director of Nonviolence International, has been to all protests of Moroccan annexation in DC since the early 90’s, and has provided training and solidarity support for Sahrawis in Layoune.

Phyllis Bennis, of Institute for Policy Studies, is co-founder of the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights, author of Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict, and Understanding ISIS and the New Global War on Terror.

Tony Caligiuri is President and CEO of Colorado Open Lands, where he leads a team to conserve open spaces.  He traveled to Western Sahara to study the conflict as Chief of Staff for Congressman Wayne T. Gilchrest.

Daniel Dart is Co-Founder and Chief Executive of DECCAP. Known as an accomplished musician, filmmaker, and photojournalist, he spent 20+ years connecting media, economics, and international development.

Mark W. Harrison, Director of Peace with Justice for the United Methodist Church, has lived in communities in Africa and Europe as well as the US, towards gaining first-hand knowledge of struggles for humanity.

RA Judy is Professor of Critical and Cultural Studies at the University of Pittsburgh whose work has spanned many areas from contemporary African Arabic literature and culture to philosophy and black studies.

Kwame-osagyefo Kalimara is a founding member of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, and has taught law, psychology, and history at University of Detroit, Wayne State, Morehouse and Spelman Colleges.

Jonathan Kuttah is a Palestinian attorney, human rights activist, and nonviolence activist who is a member of the bar in New York, Israel and Palestine and has visited Western Sahara twice.   

Janet Lenz , a founder of Not Forgotten, Int'l (2008) has worked to bring US churches to the Sahrawi cause, hosting and arranging for others in Midwestern and Southern states to host Sahrawi children each summer.

Charles Liebling is a human rights consultant (UN, OSCE, Freedom House, Carter Center) who has worked on the Western Sahara issue since 1991, when he was the Minority Rights Group representative to the UN.

David Lippiatt, the cofounder, President and CEO of WE International Inc., an NGO that addresses poverty and injustice issues in less developed countries, is an international human rights advocate for the people.

Yvonne Lodico, Founder/Executive Director for Grace Initiative Global, served as special advisor for the Secretary General on the United Nations Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste (UNMIT) during her 14 years with UN.  

Marselha Gonçalves Margerin founded Buriti Strategies, LLC (2020) to consolidate her work, including international strategic litigation, human rights advocacy and expert commentary for global news outlets.

Nina May is a producer, writer, director with Renaissance Women Productions. (TV shows, movies, documentaries, etc.). She first went to the Sahrawi migrant camps in 1994 at the request of Holly Coors.

Isa Mirza, a Senior Human Rights Advisor at the law firm Foley Hoag in Washington, DC. has since 2011 represented the human rights and self-determination interests of the Sahrawi people before Congress, the State Department, public policy centers, and the civil society community.

Jacob Mundy is an associate professor at Colgate University in Peace and Conflict Studies. He is coauthor of "Western Sahara: War, Nationalism and Conflict Irresolution" published by Syracuse University Press.

Richard Ortega is the Executive Director of LELO, where he has been a staff member since 1999, and has participated in documenting the impacts of NAFTA, and held hearings on immigration in USA and NAFTA.

Beverly Pegues-Tucker, the co-founder and President of the Window International Network (WIN), a Christian nonprofit organization, has taken at least six prayer teams to Sahrawi refugee camps in Tindouf, Algeria.

Khury Petersen-Smith, Michael Ratner Middle East Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, recently co-authored articles for The Nation on Iran, for Common Dreams on Syria, and authored a Newsweek opinion piece..

Jason Poblete co-founded an NGO, the Global Liberty Alliance, where he uses his legal, policy, and political skills to do international human rights work, representing hundreds of dissidents and civil society leaders.

Don Rojas, Institute of the Black World 21, covered the 1986 Reagan/ Gorbachev summit as the first NAACP Communications Director, and led a visit of Black journalists to Polisario Front refugee camps in 2015.

Gare Smith chairs the Global Business & Human Rights Practice at Foley Hoag LLP and has promoted the rights of the Saharawi since 1989. Earlier, he worked for President Clinton as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State and was a representative to the UN Human Rights Commission.

Roger Toussaint is the former president of the Transport Workers Union Local 100, the union of New York City Transit Authority employees and former Vice President of Strategic Planning for the parent union..

Cindy Wiesner, a grassroots feminist, internationalist, and movement strategist, is a 30-year veteran of US and international social justice movements, is Executive Director, Grassroots Global Justice Alliance.

Emira Woods, a Pan-Africanist strategist, researcher, writer, commentator and advocate, is Senior Advisor at Shine, a Trustee of the Wallace Global Fund, and board member of Action Aid International. 

Stephen Zunes is a Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of San Francisco, where he served as founding director of the program in Middle Eastern Studies. He is the co-author (with Jacob Mundy) of Western Sahara: War, Nationalism and Conflict Irresolution.