Jewher Ilham is a human rights activist who began speaking out about China’s policies toward the Uighur community when her father, a Uighur scholar, was arrested in 2014. She graduated from Indiana University in 2019 and is now working on a documentary about the experiences of Uighur Muslims, called “Static and Noise.”

Rongbin Han is an associate professor of international affairs at the University of Georgia. He is the author of Contesting Cyberspace in China: Online Expression and Authoritarian Resilience.

Bob Fu is the founder and president of China Aid, an organization working to raise awareness of religious persecution in China.

Olivia Enos is a senior policy analyst for The Heritage Foundation’s Asian Studies Center.

Jerome Cohen is a law professor at New York University and an expert on China’s legal system. He co-founded the Xinjiang Initiative, an effort to increase the academic community’s awareness of human rights violations in the Xinjiang region of China.

Darren Byler is professor of international studies at Simon Fraser University. He is expert on the Uyghur Muslim community. His book, Terror Capitalism: Uyghur Dispossession and Masculinity in a Chinese City (Duke University Press, 2021), examines emerging forms of media, infrastructure, economics and politics in the Uyghur homeland in Chinese Central Asia (Ch: Xinjiang).

Jan Berris is vice president of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, which works to nurture a healthy dialogue between U.S. and Chinese officials. Arrange an interview through Joseph Weed.

Sophie Richardson serves as China director for Human Rights Watch. In 2018, she detailed religious persecution in China during an event with the Council on Foreign Relations.

Michael Sobolik is a fellow in Indo-Pacific studies for the American Foreign Policy Council. He specializes in U.S.-China relations and has written about persecution of Uighur Muslims.