• Jackie Abramian, Public Relations and Communications Strategist and Forbes Contributor

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• Aida Akim-Escriva, Program Officer, Adolescent Girls’ Rights at Global Fund for Women  

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• Nadezhda Azhgikhina, Journalist, Feminist, Director, Moscow PEN, Featured Speaker 

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• Cynthia Lazaroff, Founder, Women Transforming Our Nuclear Legacy and Board Member, American Committee for US-Russia Accord, Moderator

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• Sarah Lindemann-Komarova, Writer, Researcher and Activist Featured Speaker

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• Eva Merkacheva, Investigative journalist, Member of Human Rights Council of Russia

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• Marina Pislakova-Parker, Ph.D Sociology, Founder and Chair of the Board, ANNA - Center for the Prevention of Violence, Author, Researcher

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• Joan Porter, Community Activist

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• Colette Shulman, Journalist & Public Speaker on the Soviet Union & Russia since 1956, Member, Council on Foreign Relations, Member, Advisory Commission for Europe and Central Asia, Human Rights Watch, Dialogue Advisor and Featured Speaker

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• Jessica Sleight, Program Director, Global Zero

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• Svetlana Svistunova, Journalist and Filmmaker

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• Sharon Tennison, Founder and President, Center for Citizen Initiatives Featured Speaker

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• Viktoria Zhuravleva, Professor of American History and International Relations at the Russian State University for the Humanities, Featured Speaker