Roza Akylbekova - Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights, Kazakhstan
Roby Alampay - Southeast Asia Press Alliance, Philippines
Andrew Albertson - Project on Middle East Democracy
Paige Alexander - International Research and Exchanges Board
Andrew Anderson - Front Line
Mohammed Al-Ghanim - Global Youth Action Network, Kuwait
Michael Allen - Democracy Digest
Ali Alyami - Executive Director, Center for Democracy and Human Rights in Saudi Arabia
Goli Ameri - Freedom House Board of Trustees
Tim Andrews - United States Department of State
Ambassador Jose Maria Argueta - Former Guatemalan Ambassador to Japan and Peru
Maziar Bahiar - Journalist, Iran
Robert Bernstein - Founding Chair Emeritus of Human Rights Watch and Chair Emeritus of Human Rights in China
Robert Boorstin - Google
Ellen Bork - Foreign Policy Institute
Fodil Boumala - Okool Center for Strategic Studies and Development, Algeria
John Bradshaw - Washington Director, Physicians for Human Rights
Mark Bromley - Council for Global Equality
Ambassador Audrius Bruzga - Embassy of Lithuania to the United States
Shari Bryan - Vice President, NDI
Scott Busby - National Security Council
Andrew Hale Byrne - Tom Lantos Foundation for Human Rights and Justice
Daniel Calingaert - Freedom House
Dr. Agnes Callamard - Article 19, United Kingdom
Santiago Canton - Executive Secretary, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
Kamala Chandrakirana - National Commission on Violence against Women, Indonesia
Lisa Davis - Freedom House
Patricia Davis - United States Agency for International Development
Thomas A. Dine - Freedom House Board of Trustees
Nadia Diuk - Vice President of Programs, NED
Rafendi Djamin - Indonesia's Human Rights Working Group, Indonesia
Gary Doer - Ambassador, Embassy of Canada to the United States
David Dorn - American Federation of Teachers
Yuri Dzhibladze - Center for the Development of Democracy and Human Rights, Russia
Gamal Eid - Arabic Network for Human Rights Information, Egypt
Richard Eisendorf - Freedom House
Camille Eiss - Director of Programs, Truman National Security Project
Barbara Esnerova - Political Officer, Embassy of the Czech Republic
Ambassador Maria del Lujan Flores - Permanent Mission of Uruguay to the OAS
Bennett Freeman - Calvert Investments
Robert Gallucci - President of MacArthur Foundation
Larry Garber - United States Agency for International Development
Jean Garland - United States Agency for International Development
Thomas Garrett - International Republican Institute
Randy Garton - The Albert Shanker Institute
Deborah Graze - Principal DAS, Bureau for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor
Louisa Coan Greve - National Endowment for Democracy
Robert Guerra - Freedom House
Barbara Haig - National Endowment for Democracy
Mort Halperin - Open Society Institute
Mark Hankin - Solidarity Center
Hadar Harris - Executive Director, Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
Bahey eldin Hassan - Cairo Institute for Human Rights, Egypt
Robert Herman - Freedom House
Neil Hicks - Human Rights First
Barak Hoffman - Center for Democracy and Civil Society, Georgetown University
Hans Hogrefe - Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission
Daniel Hollingsworth - Council for a Community of Democracies
Sharon Hom - Human Rights in China
Ann Marie Jackson - Internews Network   
Tracy Jacobson - Aide for Delahunt; Subcommitte Counsel
Sameer Jarrah - Freedom House Project Director, Jordan
Hina Jilani - Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, Pakistan
Jing Jing - Georgetown University
John Joyce - Freedom House Board of Trustees
Julius Kaggwa - Civil Society Coalition on Human Rights and Constitutional Law, Uganda
Matt Kaminski - Wall Street Journal
Kaitira Kandjii - Media Institute of Southern Africa, Namibia
Mehrangiz Kar - Activist, Women's Movement, Iran
Karin Karlekar - Freedom House
Art Kaufman - World Movement for Democracy
David Keyes - CyberDissidents.org
Oleg Kozlovsky - Oborona, Russia
Laith Kubba - National Endowment for Democracy
T. Kumar - Amnesty International
Jayne Kurzman - Hurford Foundation
Jonathan Kuttab - Palestinian Center for the Study of Nonviolence
Sally Kux - United States Department of State
Frank La Rue - UN Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression
Mark Lagon - Former Ambassador at Large, Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons
Ambassador Maria Leissner - Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Sweden
Robin Lerner - U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
Wen-Cheng Lin - Taiwan Foundation for Democracy
Barry Lowenkron - John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Rebecca MacKinnon - Princeton University Center for Information Technology Policy
Flavie Major - Deputy Director, Human Rights Policy Division, DFAIT
Tom Malinowski - Human Rights Watch
Erica Marat - Central Asia-Caucasus Institute
Hamidah Marican - Sisters in Islam, Malaysia
Elisa Massimino - Human Rights First
Mary McClymont - Global Rights
Michael  McFaul - National Security Council
Thomas O. Melia - Freedom House
Sarah Mendelson - Center for Strategic and International Studies
Katie Meyer - International Freedom of Expression Exchange
Robert Miller - Hurford Foundation
Zarema Mukusheva - Memorial
Damian Murphy - Office of Senator Casey
Julia Neiva - Conectas, Brazil
Siti Nurjanah - Center for Religious and Community Studies, Indonesia
Edetaen Ojo - Media Rights Agenda, Nigeria
Amy Ostermeier - United States Department of State
Ambassador Mark Palmer - Freedom House Board of Trustees
Denise L. Perron - Tom Lantos Foundation for Human Rights and Justice
Ted Piccone - Brookings
Carlos Ponce - Latin American and Caribbean Network for Democracy, Venezuela
Ambassador Carlos Portales - Permanent Mission of Chile to Geneva
Michael Posner - United States Department of State
Arch Puddington - Freedom House
Subodh Raj Pyakurel - Forum Asia, Nepal
Courtney Radsch - Freedom House
Stephen Rickard - Director, OSI-Washington, DC
Marjorie Rouse - VP of Program Development, Internews
Richard Rowson - Vice President, Council for a Community of Democracies
Douglas Rutzen - International Center for Not-for-Profit Law
Karin Ryan - Carter Center
Azeen Salimi - International Human Rights Funders Group
Sima Samar - Afghan Human Rights Commission, Afghanistan
Zvisinei C. Sandi, Society for Gender Justice in Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe
Paula Schriefer - Freedom House
Eric Sears - John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Hassan Shire Sheikh - East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project
Lynn Sicade - United States Department of State
Javier Sierra - World Press Freedom Committee
Frank Smyth - Committee to Protect Journalists
Francisco Soberon - Asociacion Pro Derechos Humanos, Peru
Tad Stahnke - Human Rights First
Cliff Stammerman - Office of Congressman Delahunt
Mary Ann Stein-Moriah - Human Rights First Board Member; President, Moriah Fund
Michael Stulman - Associate Director, Policy and Communication, Africa Action
Marguerite Sullivan - National Endowment for Democracy
Samuel Tadros, Egyptian Union of Liberal Youth (EULY), Egypt
William H.  Taft IV - Freedom House Chairman
Alejandro Toledo - Global Center for Development and Democracy, SAIS
Linda Trail - International Research and Exchanges Board
Arnold Tsunga - International Commission of Jurists, Zimbabwe
David Ulmer - Human Rights Division, DFAIT
Jan Urban - Czech Radio
Judy Van Rest - Executive Vice President, IRI
Monika Kalra Varma - Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Center for Human Rights
Sue Vaugh - Freedom House
Iryna Vidanova - 34 Multimedia Magazine, Belarus
Christopher Walker - Freedom House
Jeremy M. Weinstein - National Security Council
Jennifer Windsor - Freedom House
Maysing Yang - Taiwan Foundation for Democracy
William D. Zabel - Human Rights First Chairma