Cherian George is an associate professor at Hong Kong Baptist University School of Communication and director of the Asia Journalism Fellowship in Singapore. He has written extensively on hate speech and ethical media.

Michael Pan is project director at Myanmar News Lab, an information platform launched by Internews to enhance the information environment around peace and conflict issues in Myanmar.

Matt Schissler is an adviser to the civil society group Paung Ku, a member organization of the Panzagar anti-hate speech campaign in Myanmar.

Nay Phone Latt is a Myanmar blogger and activist based in Yangon. He co-founded the local anti-hate speech campaign Panzagar.

Timothy Garton Ash is a British historian, author and commentator based in Oxford, U.K. He founded the project Free Speech Debate in 2011 to explore freedom of expression issues, including hate speech, from a global perspective.

Aidan White is director of the Ethical Journalism Network, a London-based global campaign promoting good governance and ethical conduct in media. EJN’s member organizations, which include Religion Newswriters Foundation, can speak about hate speech in their respective countries of focus.

Brian Pellot is director of global strategy at Religion News Service and Religion Newswriters Foundation. He writes about international hate speech, free speech, religious freedom and media freedom issues in his RNS column On Faith and is based in London and Cape Town.

Rachel Kranson is an assistant professor and author at the University of Pittsburgh who specializes in modern Jewish history, Judaism in America, religion in America, and gender studies. She teaches Religion in Modern America, Modern Jewry, Jews and the City, and Gender and Jewish History.

Kathryn Harrison is a New York Times bestselling author who has published novels, biographies, memoirs, travel memoirs, and essay collections, the most recent of which is a biography entitled Joan of Arc: A Life Transfigured. Harrison reviews books for The New York Times Book Review and has been published in The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, Vogue, O Magazine, and more.