Sex Workers Education & Advocacy Taskforce (SWEAT) is South Africa’s leading sex worker rights organization, working on advocacy, human rights defense and mobilization from its head office in Cape Town. SWEAT works closely with LGBTI rights groups across South Africa.

African Men for Sexual Health and Rights (AMSHeR) is a coalition of 18 LGBT/MSM (men who have sex with men)-led organizations across sub-Saharan Africa. The coalition works to address the disproportionate effect of HIV/AIDS on MSM and LGBT individuals, to redress the human rights violations these populations face on the continent and to increase the […]

The Triangle Project is a nonprofit human rights organization based in Cape Town, South Africa, that offers professional services to ensure the full realization of constitutional and human rights for LGBTI people, their partners and their families. Triangle Project offers sexual health clinics, counseling, support groups, a help line, public education and training services, community […]

Greg Forster is a Friedman Fellow at EdChoice, an Indianapolis-based advocacy group that supports school choice, where he specializes in public education issues, including vouchers. Contact via Jennifer Wagner, vice president of communications for EdChoice.

Christopher Lubienski is a professor of education at Indiana University in Bloomington. He is an expert on school choice and vouchers and the battle over them between religious group and secular groups. Contact via Steve Hinnefeld, news and media specialist.  

Joshua Cowen is an associate professor of education at Michigan State University in East Lansing and an expert on school vouchers and charter schools.

Maria Voles Ferguson is the executive director of the Center on Education Policy, an advocacy group for public education, in Washington, D.C.

Frederick “Rick” Hess is a political scientist and scholar at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C., who specializes in K-12 education issues.

Randi Weingarten is president of the American Federation of Teachers.