Dr. Mohamed Ibrahim Elgadi (Advisory Committee)

• Sudanese political asylee and torture survivor.
• Masters Degree in Environmental Studies from the University of Khartoum and a Ph.D. in Education from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst..
• A founder and chair of Group Against Torture in Sudan (GATS), an advocacy group working among Sudanese refugees.
• Co-founder of Darfur Alert Coalition (Philadelphia), a Sudanese American group of grassroots activists working on Darfur issues.

Dr. Tim Nonn (Project Director)

• Founder and coordinator of Dear Sudan, a national grassroots organization working to stop the genocide in Darfur.
• Active in the Sanctuary Movement, assisting political refugees from Central America during the ‘80’s and ‘90’s.
• Ph.D. in Social Ethics from the Graduate Theological Union and Masters of Divinity from the San Francisco Theological Seminary

Dr. Gregory Stanton (Advisory Committee)

• Founder of Genocide Watch and the International Campaign to End Genocide, a coalition of 25 anti-genocide, human rights, religious, and civil society organizations in 11 countries.
• Author of the United Nations resolutions that created the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda while at the State Department (1992-1999).
• Instrumental in creating and serves as an expert advisor to the Khmer Rouge Tribunal to try surviving Khmer Rouge leaders.
• Currently, James Farmer Professor of Human Rights at the University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, Virginia.
• Vice President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars.
• Degrees from Oberlin College, Harvard Divinity School, Yale Law School, and a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Chicago.

Kenneth A Sweder, Esq. (Advisory Committee)

• A founder and co-chair of the Massachusetts Coalition to Save Darfur.
• Member of the board of Facing History and Ourselves and involved in its project with Harvard Law School on “International Justice?” which focused on the Nuremberg Trials and the international response to genocide.
• A founder of he Soviet Jewry Legal Advocacy Center.
• Attorney and activist in Boston since 1971.

Prof. John Weiss (Advisory Committee)

• Professor of History at Cornell University. Author of numerous publications and producer of videos on the genocide in Darfur.

Rev. Gloria White-Hammond.  MD (Judge)

• National chairperson of the Million Voices for Darfur campaign.
• Co-founder in 1992 of My Sister’s Keeper, a women’s group helping the women of Sudan.
• Co-founder of the Massachusetts Coalition to Save Darfur.
• Completed seven trips in the past five years to Southern Sudan, and traveled to Darfur in 2005 to interview female genocide survivors in displaced persons (IDP) camps.
• Worked as a medical missionary in Botswana, the Ivory Coast, and South Africa.
• M.D. from Tufts Medical School.
• Masters from Harvard Divinity School.

Abdelelah Zomrawi (Judge)

• Civil Judge in Sudan 1983-1989, presiding over civil, criminal, and administrative cases.
• Arabic linguist for the U.S. Dept. of Defense from 2002-2005.
• Legal Coordinator for Vive, Inc., a refugee organization, providing legal services for asylees and refugees.

Eithar Abutaha (Judge) 

• Sudanese lawyer and member of the New York Bar Association.
• Secretary of the Sudanese Community of Greater Philadelphia
• Works with Sudanese torture survivors in the U.S.

Professor Michael A. Newton, Esq. (Judge)

• Served as Senior Advisor to the United States Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues.
• Negotiated the Elements of Crimes document for the International Criminal Court.
• Served as U.S. representative on the U.N. Planning Mission for the Sierra Leone Special Court.
• Speaks world-wide on accountability and conduct of hostilities issues, and is a member of the International Institute of Humanitarian Law.
• Formerly Associate Professor in the Department of Law of the United States Military Academy, currently Professor of Law at Vanderbilt University.

Obang Metho (Judge)

• Director of International Advocacy for The Anuak Justice Council, a humanrights organization representing the Anuak people of southeastern Sudan and southwestern Ethiopia, the latter being victims of genocidal massacres by the Ethiopian army.
• Has testified on the subject of human rights before the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, the U.S. Congressional Sub-committee on Africa, Global Human Rights and International Operations, the European Parliament,'s Joint Committee hearing on Ethiopia, the Canadian Sub-committee on International Human Rights and has worked closely with Human Rights Watch, Amnesty Interational and other officials in government and non-governmental agencies in the US, Canada and Europe.
• Executive Director and Co-Founder of the Gambella Development Agency (GDA).
• Graduate of the University of Saskatchewan, Political Science. Now a citizen of Canada.

Wole Soyinka (Chief Judge)

• Nigerian poet, playwright, novelist and essayist who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986.
• Outspoken critic of political tyrannies world-wide.Incarcerated as a political prisoner in Nigeria for 22 months after advocating for a cease-fire during the Nigerian Civil War in 1967.
• Charged with treason in 1997 by Nigeria’s military dictator (993-1998) General Sani Abacha, and forced to flee country.  (Returns after Abacha’s ouster.)
• Recipient of numerous awards and degrees for his literary works and human rights activism.  Among them:  The Open Sore of a Continent: A Personal Narrative of the Nigerian Crisis (1996) and King Baabu (2001), a satiric political play about African dictatorships.

Honorable David Kilgour, J.D. (Chief Prosecutor)

• Hon. Kilgour is a former Canadian Secretary of State for the Asia Pacific region (2002-2003), the former Chair of the Human Rights and International Development Subcommittee of the Canadian House of Commons, and a longstanding Member of Parliament (1979-2006).
• Before entering politics, he was Crown Attorney for Dauphin Judicial District in the province of Manitoba and a senior agent of the Attorney General of the province of Alberta (1972-1979).
• He was the Canadian Secretary of State for Africa and Latin America between 1997 and 2002.
• He has also authored three non-fiction books.

David Matas (Prosecutor)

• David Matas is an immigration, refugee and international human rights lawyer in private practice in Winnipeg.
• He is actively involved in the promotion of respect for human rights as an author, speaker and participant in several human rights non-governmental organizations, including Amnesty International, B'nai Brith Canada, the Canadian Bar Association, the International Commission of Jurists, and more.
• Mr. Matas has also taught economics and law courses at McGill University in Montreal and the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg.

   
Assistant Professor Beth Van Schaack (Prosecutor)

• Former Law Clerk, Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia.
• Former Executive Director and current Legal Advisor to the Center for Justice and Accountability, a non-profit law firm dedicated to the representation of victims of torture and other grave human rights abuses.
• Trial counsel for Romagoza v. Garcia, a human rights lawsuit netting an historic $54.6 million verdict for three Salvadoran torture survivors against two Salvadoran generals guilty of torture and murder.
• Legal advisor to the Documentation Center of Cambodia.
• Currently Assistant Professor of Law at Santa Clara University School of Law.
• Graduate of Stanford University and Yale Law School.

Kelly Dawson, Esq. (Defense)

• 22 years of specialized criminal defense practice.
• Director of Criminal Trial Lawyers’ Association in Alberta, Canada (1996-2004).
• Member of the International Criminal Defence Attorneys Association.
• Managing Partner – Dawson, Stevens & Shaigec, Barristers in Edmonton, Canada.

G. Garry MacDonald, Esq. (Defense)

• Canadian barrister and member of the International Criminal Defence Association. Employed by Attorney-General of  British Columbia to represent youthful offenders who otherwise wouldn’t have counsel.
• Degrees in Public Sector Administration, Broadcast Journalism, as well as law.
• 30 years combined experience in law, public administration, and electronic journalism.