Philip Gourevitch is editor of the Paris Review and a long-time staff writer for the New Yorker. He is author of A Cold Case (2001) and We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories From Rwanda (1998), winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the LA Times Book Prize, and in England, the Guardian First Book Award.

Christopher Hitchens is a prolific British author, journalist, literary critic and public intellectual who is often described as a “contrarian.” Now living in Washington, DC, he contributes an essay on books each month to the Atlantic Monthly. He is the author of more than ten books, is a contributing editor of Vanity Fair and has written for American and British periodicals, including the Nation, the London Review of Books, Granta, Harper’s, Slate, etc.

Signe Wilkinson is the editorial cartoonist for the Philadelphia Daily News. She is the author of One Nation, Under Surveillance, and the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning in 1992. Her editorial cartoons are syndicated by the Washington Post Writers Group.

Daisy Khan is the executive director of the American Society for Muslim Advancement. ASMA is a non-profit religious and educational organization dedicated to building bridges between the American public and American Muslims. As wife of Imam Feisal of Masjid al-Farah in New York City, Khan mentors young Muslim women who face challenges of cultural assimilation in America and counsels Muslims on marital and spiritual issues.

Mari Matsuda is a professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center and an activist scholar who brings in the outsiders’ perspective. She specializes in the fields of torts, constitutional law, legal history, feminist theory, critical race theory, and civil rights law. She was the first tenured female Asian American law professor in the US at UCLA School of Law. Matsuda is the author of numerous books with Charles R. Lawrence III.

Lionel Tiger is research professor in history at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is a British scholar specializing in Jewish history and has written and edited over a dozen books. He has advised the British government on commemoration of the Holocaust. In 2006, he was recognized in the Queen’s New Year’s Honors list for services to Holocaust education.