Dr. Vandana Shiva - internationally renowned activist/scientist/feminist/author and winner of the Right Livelihood Award (sometimes called "the alternative Nobel Prize"), head of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology in India - concern: food security, agriculture, genetic engineering, globalization, patents, biopiracy

Andrew Kimbrell - author/lawyer/executive director of the International Center for Technology Assessment, the Center for Food Safety, named by Utne Reader as one of the 100 most influential voices in the US, well-known writer and speaker (and one-time concert pianist) - concern: food safety, agriculture, genetic engineering, patents, globalization

Percy Schmeiser - fighting Canadian farmer who was sued by Monsanto Corporation for violating its patent rights (by growing canola that had been pollinated by his neighbor's crops) - concern: farmer's rights, food security, human rights

Steve Wilson and Jane Akre - Goldman Award-winning reporters who were fired from Fox-TV in Florida for their (honest) reporting of the rBGH (genetically engineered bovine growth hormone) story and later vindicated in court and honored by their profession (and now by the Goldman Award) for the ethical stance they took vis-a-vis reporting

Annuradha Mittal - author and brilliant co-director of California's path-breaking Food First organization - concern: food security, food safety, hunger, agricultural sustainability, globalization

Dr. Peter Rossett - author and brilliant co-director of Food First, consultant to CGIAR - concern: food security, food safety, hunger, agricultural sustainability, globalization

Victoria Tauli-Corpuz - director of the Philippines-based Tebtebba Foundation (Indigenous Peoples' International Center for Policy Research and Education),an associate of the Third World Network, has written widely and internationally about indigenous peoples' concerns, is an indigenous person belonging to the Kankana-ey-Igorot peoples in the Cordillera Region - concern: indigenous rights, patents, globalization, biopiracy

Debra Harry - executive director of the Indigenous People's Council on Biocolonialism, expert on biopiracy, and a member of the Northern Paiute nation - concern: indigenous rights, patents, globalization, biopiracy

Luke Anderson - UK author, speaker, and campaigner on genetic engineering, author of Genetic Engineering, Food and Our Environment - concern: the whole range of genetic engineering issues

Dr. Martha Crouch - retired professor of biology, did pioneering research at Indiana University until she discovered that her work was being used to advance industrial agriculture at the expense of the environment, author of "How the Terminator Terminates" and other eye-opening works about genetic engineering - concern: biosafety, Science, unethical use of tscience and technology

Andrew J. Imparato - the American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD)'s first full time President and CEO; AAPD is a national non-profit, non-partisan membership organization of people with disabilities, their family members, and supporters, founded in 1995 to promote economic and political empowerment of the more than 56 million Americans with disabilities. Prior to joining AAPD, Imparato was general counsel and director of policy for the National Council on Disability. Andy graduated with distinction from Stanford Law School and is a summa cum laude graduate of Yale College. Concern: disability rights, genetic privacy

Brewster Kneen - co-editor and publisher of Canada's famous newsletter about the food system, "The Ram's Horn", convenor of the British Columbia Biotechnology Circle, author of several works, including Farmaggedon and other works about industrial agriculture,also a leading authority on Cargill Corporation. Concern: food security, food safety, food systems, agricultural sustainability

Cathleen Kneen - co-editor and publisher of The Ram's Horn, potter. feminist, and social justice activist, retired farmer, now focused on food systems and the development of local community-based food policies, a tireless worker and organizer of local food systems and councils in Canada. Concern: food security, food safety, food systems, agricultural sustainability

Dr. Miguel Altieri - Professor of Environmental Studies at UC-Berkeley, international expert on agricultural systems, and consultant to the CGIAR.. Concern: food security, food safety, food systems, agricultural sustainability, farmer's rights

Dr. Richard Strohman - brilliant scientist and professor of biology at UC-Berkeley, offers a deep critique of genetic engineering - concern: biosafety, Science, feasibility of current paradigms of genetic engineering

Dr. Paul Billings, M.D., Ph.D., co-founder of GeneSage , editor-in-chief of GeneLetter, and Chief Medical Officer and Deputy Network Director of the Heart of Texas Veterans Health Care System. A graduate of Harvard University, he is a clinical specialist in internal medicine and medical genetics. His research has focused on the immune system and, more recently, on the social impacts of biotechnology. He is presently a director of the Council for Responsible Genetics and has published over 100 scholarly articles and book chapters in addition to his book, DNA on Trial:Genetic Identification and Criminal Justice. Concern: genetic privacy, genetic testing

Chaia Heller - author and teacher at the Institute for Social Ecology. Concern: globalization, ecological philosophy

Dr. Ricarda Steinbrecher - biologist, genetic scientist, and outspoken critic of genetic engineering in UK, an advisor to many national and international NGOs, also co-director of Eco-Nexus, concern: the whole range of issues related to genetic engineering, particularly biosafety

Dr. Marcy Darnovsky -teaches political science and the environment at Sonoma College, also with Exploratory Initiative on the New Human Genetic Technologies. Concern: human genetic engineering

Dr. Doreen Stabinsky - scientist with (name of university?), and with Greenpeace USA, member of the board of directors of the Council for Responsible Genetics. Concern: biosafety, food safety, patents

Britt Bailey - co-author (with Marc Lapp?) of Against the Grain, writer/scientist with California's CETOS (Center for Ethics and Toxics). Concern: biosafety, food safety, human genetic engineering

Edward Hammond - formerly activist-researcher with Rural Foundational International, now with the Sunshine Project, an international organization concerned with biowarfare

Susana Pimiento - Columbian lawyer and environmentalist, now with the Sunshine Project, an international organization concerned with biowarfare

Charles Margulis - lead genetic engineering campaigner with Greenpeace USA

Jim Thomas - food campaigner with Greenpeace UK, closely involved with the Genetic Engineering Network since its establishment in 1996, has written for The Guardian, BBC Online, and other publications

Rowan Tilly - one of the leading lights of GenetiX Snowball, the UK's crop-pulling conscientious objectors to genetic engineering

Brian Tokar - author/writer/teacher at Institute for Social Ecology, member of the board of other organizations, editor of Redesigning Life? The Worldwide Resistance to Genetic Engineering

Claire Cummings - path-breaking reporter, lawyer, and activist, founder of Food and Farming Forum. Concern: alternative agricultures

Brian Leahy - Executive Director of CCOF (California Certified Organic Farmers. Concern: alternative agriculture

Craig Winters - executive director of the Campaign to Label Genetically Engineered Food, lecturer on food and nutrition at Bastyr College in Seattle. Concern: food labelling

Anne Petermann - longtime forest activist with the Native Forest Network and ACERCA, campaigner on genetically engineered trees

Heather Ryan - genetic engineering campaigner with California's E.D.G.E.

Beth Burrows - founder, president, and director of the Edmonds Institute, award-winning writer and producer, founder and board member of many other organizations, co-editor of the forthcoming Genetically Engineered Organisms: Assessing Ecological and Human Health Effects and long-time teacher, lecturer,organizer, and campaigner on trade issues and on patents, biopiracy, and biosafety