Dr. Sandra Fahy is an Associate Professor and Program Director at Carleton University. Dr. Fahy is a leading expert on the human rights and humanitarian situation in North Korea. She earned her Ph.D. in Anthropology at SOAS, University of London in 2009. She held post-doctoral fellowships at EHESS in Paris and USC in Los Angeles, before taking up a position in Anthropology at Sophia University in 2013 and Carleton University in 2021.

Her first book, Marching through Suffering: Loss and Survival in North Korea published by Columbia University Press in 2015) examines how North Korean famine survivors understood the food crisis and concomitant political violence. Her second book, Dying for Rights: Putting North Korea’s Rights Abuses on the Record published by Columbia University Press in 2019 accounts for abuses committed by the North Korean state, domestically and internationally.

Jack is a Partner in the Toronto office of Fragomen (Canada) Co. His practice consists of assisting clients with their inbound corporate immigration requirements. This includes NAFTA related applications, intra-company transfers, Labour Market Impact Assessments (including under the Global Talent Stream), as well as process compliance and inadmissibility issues.

He has spoken about Canadian immigration issues at various venues, including the Canadian Employee Relocation Council, the Engineering Human Resources Association, American Society of Employers, Toronto Region Board of Trade, Law Society of Ontario and Osgoode Hall Law School. Prior to joining Fragomen, Jack worked in various sectors, including as a hearings officer at the Canada Border Services Agency, an executive director of a nonprofit organization and an associate at a boutique management consulting firm. Jack also articled at a major corporate law firm in Toronto. As an authority on North Korean affairs, Jack appears frequently in the media, and has consulted with cabinet ministers and testified before the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee and Senate Human Rights Committee. Jack speaks English and Korean.

Ambassador David Slinn is a retired British diplomat. Ambassador Slinn, assigned to Pyongyang in 2002 as the first British Ambassador to North Korea, established the embassy in acutely sensitive security conditions. Since then, Ambassador Slinn has retired and focused much of his time on researching and developing approaches to free expression and information related to North Korea. He is a thought leader and regularly consulted on the security and information dimensions of the West’s engagement with North Korea and comes with an extensive network of experts similarly focused on these issues. He serves as Senior Advisor at Digital Public Square.

Ji Cheol Ho helps to run Now Action and Unity for Human Rights.

Since 2010, Now Action and Unity for Human Rights (NAUH) has been working to improve human rights conditions in North Korea and achieve a unified Korean Peninsula. NAUH has spearheaded awareness campaigns on North Korea's human rights conditions, organized campaigns calling for unification, hosted cultural exchanges between South and North Korean young adults, participated in radio broadcasts that relay news of freedom for North Korea, and helped rescue operations of North Korean refugees.