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Pashtana Durrani is an Afghan education advocate, founder of the NGO LEARN, Malala's Fund Education Champion, UN's Youth Envoy, and Amnesty International Global Youth Collective representative. After the fall of Kandahar, and later the rest of the country, Pashtana became a face of disappearing women's rights in Afghanistan, appearing regularly in national press and on all major US networks. She currently lives in Boston, where she is a visiting fellow at the Wellesley Centers for Women and continues her work to support the education and health of Afghan women and girls. Tamara Bralo is an award-winning journalist who worked for BBC, CNN, and Al Jazeera English, and spent years covering war zones around the world, including Iraq, Libya, and Syria. An advocate for the safety of journalists, and a first woman in charge of high-risk Deployments for any major network; she currently works as a media consultant for safety and investigative reporting, and for Undivided, an NGO promoting women's perspectives and narratives of war. Tamara spent an inordinate amount of time covering Afghanistan over the years. She holds an MA from Syracuse University in international relations, and lives in Washington DC. Lameece Issaq is an actor, writer, and cofounder/former artistic director of the Obie Award-winning company Noor Theatre. Lameece has narrated over eighty books, most recently The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi, for which she won an AudioFile Earphones Award. She has appeared in several regional and off-Broadway productions, including The Fever Chart and Stuff Happens (Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Ensemble) at the Public Theatre, The Black Eyed at New York Theatre Workshop, and Noura at The Old Globe, among several others. She's written various short plays produced in The New York Arab-American Comedy Festival; as well as short plays Noor & Hadi Go to Hogwarts (Theater Breaking Through Barriers, Golden Thread Theater); Orb Weaver (24/6) and Nooha's List, part of the compilation play Motherhood Outloud (Hartford Stage, The Geffen and Primary Stages). Her full-length play Food and Fadwa (2011 recipient of the Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award) premiered off-Broadway at New York Theatre Workshop in a production she coproduced and starred in, and in which Variety magazine praised her performance as ""stunning."" Food and Fadwa was a part of the Arab Voices Festival in both Abu Dhabi and Beirut and was published in the anthology ""Contemporary Plays By Women of Color,"" second edition. She cowrote the feature film Abe, directed by Fernando Grostein Andrade, which premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. She starred in her most recent play, A Good Day to Me Not to You, which premiered off-Broadway at the Connelly Theater in 2023 and was produced by Waterwell and Plate Spinner Productions. The play was developed at Williamstown Theatre Festival, New York Theatre Workshop, The Cape Cod Theatre Project, Noor Theatre, and Theatre Aspen's Solo Flights Festival. A 2016 NYFA Finalist in Playwriting/Screenwriting, Lameece is a member of AEA and SAG-AFTRA.

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