Sonnie is president of the Dockser Family Foundation. The foundation supports education, humanitarian needs, scientific and medical research, and the arts.

She is a member of the Board of Vital Voices, and a member of the Executive Committee. Since 2003 she has played an active role in Vital Voices Middle East/Northern Ireland program, working with women leaders from Catholic, Protestant, Jewish and Arab Israeli, and Arab leaders from the West Bank and Gaza.

The program grew to include women from South Africa to bring greater understanding as they work toward peace. She is a member of the International Governing Board of the Weizmann Institute of Science. She is president of Slim Peace Groups.

She is a member of the Women's Leadership Board at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Shireen Zaman is the Executive Director at ISPU, where she is focused on expanding the organization's impact and visibility in the policy community and on the development of new partnerships. Ms. Zaman comes to ISPU from Vital Voices Global Partnership, a leading women's leadership organization, where she was the Director for the Middle East and North Africa. She has worked with the Office of Iraq Political Affairs at the U.S. Department of State where she focused on political and civil society development. Ms. Zaman completed her M.A. at the School of International Service at American University, where she focused on public diplomacy and U.S. relations with the Muslim world.

Andrew D. Herman, partner at Brand Law Group. Andrew has been involved in a diverse array of civil and criminal federal litigation – with a focus on federal campaign and election laws – and congressional ethics and investigations. In 2008, Mr. Herman successfully briefed and argued Davis v. Federal Election Commission before the US Supreme Court, overturning the federal election law provision known as the "Millionaires Amendment".  See 128 S. Ct. 2759. Mr. Herman has also represented both individuals and organizations in investigations and hearings before the US Congress. His clients include members of Congress, national corporations, and non-profit organizations.  He has argued civil matters before the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, Second Circuit, and District of Columbia Circuit and drafted briefs for cases in the Fourth Circuit. These cases have ranged in subject matter from civil application of federal criminal statutes to the enforcement of Federal Communication Commission orders to the application of administrative law to small businesses. Mr. Herman has also argued civil matters in federal district courts across the country and in DC Superior Court. He has also participated in virtually all aspects of federal criminal matters.

Ellen Laipson is president and chief executive officer of Stimson. She also directs the Middle East/Southwest Asia program, and focuses in particular on security issues in the Gulf region. Laipson joined Stimson in 2002, after 25 years of government service. Key positions included vice chair of the National Intelligence Council (NIC) (1997-2002), and special assistant to the US permanent representative to the United Nations (1995-97). At the NIC, Laipson co-managed the interdisciplinary study "Global Trends 2015," and directed the NIC's outreach to think tanks and research organizations on a wide range of national security topics. Laipson's earlier government career focused on analysis and policymaking on Middle East and South Asian issues. She was director for Near East and South Asian Affairs for the National Security Council (1993-95), national intelligence officer for Near and South Asia (1990-93), a member of the State Department's policy planning staff (1986-87), and a specialist in Middle East affairs for the Congressional Research Service. Laipson is a frequent speaker on Middle East issues, and on US foreign policy and global trends. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and the International Institute of Strategic Studies, where she is a member of the International Advisory Council. She currently serves on the board of the Asia Foundation.  In late 2009, President Obama named Laipson to the President's Intelligence Advisory Board.  In 2011, Secretary Clinton named Laipson to the new US Department of State's Foreign Affairs Policy Board.
Laipson has an MA from the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, and a BA from Cornell University.

Aviva Kempner is an American filmmaker. Her documentaries investigate non-stereotypical images of Jews in history and focus on the untold stories of Jewish heroes. She is most well known for The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg. She wrote the narration for Promises to Keep, the Academy Award-nominated documentary on the homeless. In 2009, she released Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg, a 90-minute documentary on Gertrude Berg, one of America's favorite radio and television personalities. Berg was the creator, principal writer, and star of the popular 1930s radio show and then the 1950s weekly televised situation comedy, The Goldbergs.
She is currently working on her new film project The Rosenwald Schools, a documentary describing how businessman and philanthropist Julius Rosenwald joined with African-American communities in the South to build schools for them during the early 20th century. She is also co-writing and producing Casuse, the story of Larry Casuse, a young Native American activist who kidnapped the Mayor of Gallup, New Mexico to draw attention to the plight of the Navajho people and to expose the hypocrisy of the establishment.

Laura Strumingher Schor, Professor of History at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center, is a student of Modern Europe who focused on women workers, the history of girls' education, women's biography, and the struggle for women's rights. Her early work was devoted to the silk workers of Lyon, followed by a study of primary schooling for girls and boys in France, a biography of socialist-feminist Flora Tristan, followed by study of women's struggle for political rights in 1848 and the political satire depicting that struggle. In recent years, Dr. Schor has turned her attention to Jewish women's history, writing a biography of Betty Rothschild, followed by a study of the Evelina de Rothschild School in Jerusalem in the twentieth century. This last work opened new areas of inquiry including colonialism and the struggle for national identity.

In addition to research and teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels, Dr. Schor has had a substantial career in academic administration. She was an early Director of Women's Studies at the University of Cincinnati, where she initiated a Friends of Women's Studies group, created a Scholar in Residence Program, and pioneered the Women in Science series. She later was appointed Vice Provost for Academic Planning and supervised the distribution of significant investment in academic excellence funds. Dr. Schor served Hunter College as Provost for nine years, initiating the Freshman Year program and hiring 100 new faculty members. Following a brief hiatus in which Dr. Schor was the Executive Director of a large NGO, she was appointed the Founding Dean of the Macaulay (then CUNY) Honors College and served from its inception until the graduation of the first class in 2005.

Adult and Geriatric Dietitian
Aminah received her Bachelors of Science Degree in Food and Nutrition, cum laude, from the Coordinated Program in Dietetics at Framingham State University.

Aminah currently treats adults in rehabilitation and long-term care at Saint Joseph Rehab in Dorchester, MA, and previously practiced at Hebrew Rehab in Roslindale, MA. Her focus is on providing medical nutrition therapy and individualized diet education for patients with diabetes, heart disease, kidney and liver disease, obesity, and malnutrition. Her teaching methods include mindful eating and focusing on moderation rather than food elimination. Aminah's areas of interest include community nutrition, healthy eating on a budget, and recipe modification.

"As a practicing dietitian and a mother, I understand how difficult it can be to choose nutritious foods in a society where cheap, filling, and easy to eat foods of poor nutritional value are always at our fingertips. I also understand that taking the time to focus on what we eat, how we eat, and why we eat can improve the health and quality of life for ourselves and our families. I am passionate about whole health for the body, mind, and soul and I believe that healthy, practical, and realistic eating habits are a huge part of attaining an overall state of wellbeing. I am always excited to work with individuals and families to help them improve their eating habits and meet their personal nutrition goals."

Emma received her Masters in Nutrition and Health Promotion at Simmons College, where she received an Outstanding Achievement Award. She completed her Dietetic Internship at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. She has spent most of her nutrition career focusing Medical Nutrition Therapy, helping to treat patients with diabetes, cardiac disease, kidney disease, obesity, weight gain, and nutrition support. She has worked in-patient at Hebrew Rehabilitation Center in Roslindale MA and is currently on staff in the Recuperative Services Unit at NewBridge on the Charles in Dedham MA, both facilities catering to the geriatric population. She has helped patients to make better food choices through education, with the understanding that motivation and empowerment are critical aspects in making dietary changes. While having a primary focus on geriatric nutrition, her passion also extends to weight loss and pediatric nutrition. Founder of EatBetterTogether.com, Emma is in the planning phase of starting her own family-based and in-home nutrition counseling business, with the core belief that children and families eat better when they do it together. Emma's philosophy of eating is a non-diet paradigm, which adopts tools in mindful and intuitive eating to help people of all ages attain and maintain a healthy weight that is intended for their body.

"I believe that all people are capable of eating well to promote living a very long and even disease-free healthy life. Regardless of income, available resources and time restraints, there are ways to introduce and sustain healthy eating behaviors at home and on the go. We are all capable of learning to listen to our bodies to decide if we are truly hungry, or if our eating habits are being driven by other things, such as emotions or mindlessness. Learning to stay in touch with our emotions, thoughts, and values while eating, we can all work towards living healthier lives."

Emma is also a mother of three, food lover & cook, yoga enthusiast, and philanthropist.