Ambassador Charles Ries oversees RAND Corporation's international offices and relationships, as well as a senior fellow whose research has focused on the economics of development.

Perfeco Caparas is the associate Director of Graduate Programs for the Indiana University McKinney School of Law. Caparas was the Program Manager for the law schools International Affairs and Human Rights Law.

Dr. Sushil Sharma is currently an associate dean and a professor of computer information systems (CIS) in the Miller College of Business at Ball State University. He grew up in Himachal Pradesh, India which is an adjacent state of Jammu and Kashmir, India. As well as personal experience in the regio

Laura Donatelli Bow is a graduate of Indiana University’s School of Global & International Studies. Mrs. Donatelli Bow concluded her thesis on the aid provision to refugees & asylum seekers fleeing war-torn Syria from 2014-2015. She dedicated her academic career on the study of human rights & their

Isabella Fallahi is a 16 year old climate activist and organizer, she is currently the Director of Communications for a national youth-led organization by the name of Zero Hour. Jake Hawes is a PhD student in the School for Environment and Sustainability at the University of Michigan.

Wendy Vogt is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Arizona and her B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley. Her work examines the intersections between migration, violence and human rights in

John McDonald is the President, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of ClearObject, Indiana’s leading Internet of Things systems integrator and Inc. Magazine’s fastest-growing IT Services company in Indiana for 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017. ClearObject is the winner of the 2016 and 2017 Entrepreneur M