Co-founder and President of the American Anti-Slavery Group, Dr. Jacobs has a very long record of activism and advocacy on human rights issues. An expert on international slavery, he is now one of the top personalities in the new abolitionist movement. He has helped rescue thousands of slaves in Sudan and worked for a decade to mobilize the human rights community to tackle slavery and genocide in Sudan. Dr. Jacobs offers the perspective of a veteran activist on Sudan, and explains both why the world has failed so far to stop the Sudan genocide and what we must do now to save millions of lives.

As the former Associate Director of the American Anti-Slavery Group and the founder of iAbolish, Mr. Sage has been a driving force in raising public awareness of slavery around the world. He has worked with Sudanese and other Middle Eastern human rights activists for the past six years, and offers the perspective of a young activist. He has spoken at Harvard, Georgetown, Johns Hopkins, Columbia, and many other campuses. Mr. Sage's message to audiences is to appreciate the power of our freedom and the responsibility we have to help people silenced in slavery.

As former director of the American Anti-Slavery Group, Ms. Kasten designed and implemented advocacy and aid campaigns aimed at eradicating modern day slavery. In 2005, she traveled to India to work with former child slaves and later that year testified at the Massachusetts State House in support of a bill to divest from Sudan. In 2006, Ms. Kasten traveled to Southern Sudan and Darfur on a fact-finding and humanitarian aid mission, meeting with Southern Sudanese president Salva Kiir, refugees, and rescued slaves. Ms. Kasten also co-edited the critically acclaimed book, Enslaved: True Stories of Modern Day Slavery, and serves on the board of directors of the Nivasa Foundation, a non-profit organization providing direct aid to survivors of human trafficking in Sri Lanka.

Ms. Sliwa served as an NYPD undercover police officer and then as director of corporate research at a prestigious Manhattan firm before she was inspired to work on human rights. For the past six years her full time efforts have been devoted to raising awareness about modern-day slavery. While lecturing at universities, civic and religious organizations, Ms. Sliwa has helped to organize a grassroots awareness campaign with her colleagues at the American Anti-Slavery Group, and has led divestment campaigns aimed at preventing the Sudanese government from conducting slave raids against its black African population in the South.

When in 1998, Barbara Vogel read aloud an article about chattel slavery in present-day Sudan, her fifth grade students were shocked. Though they were a world away in Denver, Colorado, they knew they had to do something about it. The S.T.O.P. (Slavery That Oppresses People) Campaign was born. Their efforts attracted national attention from major media outlets, including The New York Times, Time Magazine, CBS Evening News, and National Public Radio. Vogel herself was awarded several humanitarian awards for her work. She and her class testified before Congress in May 1999.