Amanda Kee is the content marketing assistant manager at AVPN.

Amani Aruri is a human rights activist committed to supporting youth, women and girls in the Palestinian territories and the Middle East and North Africa region. Amani brings more than 10 years’ experience advancing gender justice, human rights, and peace and security agendas working with civil society organizations, collectives and networks, public and private foundations, and U.N. agencies.

Ambassador Amma A.Twum-Amoah is the commissioner for the department of health, humanitarian affairs, and social development at the African Union.

Douale assumed duties as ambassador of Djibouti to the United States and permanent representative of Djibouti to the United Nations in 2016. Before that he was the ambassador of Djibouti to the United Nations, World Trade Organization, and Switzerland. He was actively involved and a part of various committees that worked in preparation for the Somalia National Peace Conference and served as a special envoy to the Sudan peace process.

The son of a Congolese diplomat and statesman, Serge Mombouli was appointed ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of the Republic of Congo to the United States of America in 2001. An expert in corporate law and business negotiations, he previously served as Congo’s chargé d’ affaires to the U.S. after a career in the private sector. He has been the dean of the African Diplomatic Corps since 2015.

Ambassador Tony P. Hall is the executive director emeritus of the Alliance to End Hunger in Washington, D.C. Prior to the Alliance, he served 24 years as a United States congressman from Ohio, followed by 4 years as the U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Agencies for Food and Agriculture in Rome.

Amber Ehrke is a program coordinator at IREX, working on Beyond Access communications and supporting the project in Myanmar.

Amber Peterman is an associate research professor at the University of North Carolina and a social policy consultant at the UNICEF Office of Research — Innocenti, working with the transfer project on large-scale evaluations of government social protection programs. Her research focuses on issues related to gender and development, including women’s economic empowerment and gender-based violence. Amber holds in Ph.D. in public policy and previously worked as an assistant research professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the International Food Policy Research Institute in Washington D.C., Kampala, and Dakar.

Ambassador Fletcher M. Burton is the former head of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina. He is a senior career member of the U.S. Foreign Service. Over his career, he compiled extensive experience in the Balkans, especially in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo. He served as deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Sarajevo, and as deputy international civilian representative at the International Civilian Office. He was also deputy principal officer at the U.S. Office in Pristina and most recently, head of the U.S. Provincial Reconstruction Team in Kirkuk, Iraq.