Carol Horwitz Domestic and Sexual Violence Liason for the City of Santa Fe Sherry Taylor Executive Director of Esperanza Shelter for Battered Families Angela Daffron Community Advocate
Saudi Arabia: Dr. Khadijah Alsabban Professor of Linguistics, Poet, Women’s rights activist Samar Fatany Radio Journalist for Radio Jeddah, English-language columnist for Arab News
Lebanon: Greta Achkar Campaign manager for her husband’s run for parliament in Beirut Ferial Abou Hamdan Human rights and peace activist and former municipal council member Dunia El Khoury Founder and president of Women’s Association of Deir El Ahmar, Bekaa, Lebanon
Yemen: Falantina Mahdi Council member for General People’s Congress party, Director of Inspection and Control at the Free Zone of Aden. She will run for the National House of Representatives in 2009. Mahfoota Ebrahim Community activist, she ran for National House of Representatives as an independent candidate, and will run again in 2009.
Algeria: Fatma Zohra Chabati Mansouri Director of Training for the Ministry of National Education in Algeria, and women’s rights activist, leader at the National Democratic Rally Party (RND).
Writer Bill DuBuys, photographer Alex Harris, authors of the book River of Traps: A New Mexico Mountain Life
Sarah Chayes Former NPR reporter, author of the book The Punishment of Virtue: Inside Afghanistan After the Talibans and founder of the Arghand Cooperative, she lives and works in Kandahar, Afghanistan.