Dania Majid: is the co-founder and president of the Arab Canadian Lawyers Association and is the lead author of ACLA’s 2022 report “Anti-Palestinian Racism: Naming, Framing and Manifestations.” Dania is also the co-founder and artistic director of the Toronto Palestine Film Festival; and she sits on the steering committee for the Hearing Palestine program at the University of Toronto. She is also the co-founder and organizer of the Vote Palestine campaign. In addition to being a long-time advocate for the Palestinian and Arab community, Dania is also a housing rights lawyer with a legal aid clinic in Ontario and sits on the steering committee of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - Ontario Chapter. Dania completed her Hon. B.Sc. at the University of Toronto before completing her MES/LLB at York University/Osgoode Hall.

Alec Karakatsanis: Alec is the Founder and Executive Director of Civil Rights Corps.  He has pioneered constitutional civil rights cases to challenge the size, power, profit, and everyday brutality of the punishment bureaucracy across the United States.  These legal challenges have helped to free hundreds of thousands of people from jail, returned tens of millions of dollars to indigent people and families, prevented hundreds of thousands of illegal convictions, prevented the separation of thousands of families, and transformed the way the U.S. criminal punishment bureaucracy handles fines, fees, and bail.  Alec has also worked with directly impacted communities across the U.S. to design innovative new legal, advocacy, and narrative strategies for challenging widespread illegal and harmful practices of prosecutors, police, probation officers, judges, and private companies who work with them to profit from the punishment bureaucracy.