Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera is the founder and was the long-term executive director of Freedom and Roam Uganda. She works as a queer feminist, fighting for the rights of LGBT persons not only in Uganda but in Africa as a whole. She has amassed a number of awards and recognition for her resilience in fighting for equality and freedoms of sexual minorities and is the first openly gay person to grace the cover of the TIME magazine European Edition. She currently runs the only LGBTI magazine on the African continent and an online Television and Radio show focusing on issues of lgbti and women's rights.

Tamara Adrián is a lawyer and lawmaker at the National Assembly of Venezuela (2016-2021). Among other affiliations she serves as president on the Committee of International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHO-T), co-president of the Gay, Lesbian, Trans, Intersex Sport Association (GLISA) and she organizes the World Outgames. Tamara is also a special advisor to several international organizations including WHO, PAHO, HRH and WAS, a worldwide published author of articles and books as well as a retired law professor. 

Danny Ramadan is an LGBTQ Refugee advocate and activist born in Syria, who moved to Vancouver, Canada, himself a gay refugee in September 2014. Danny works as a Volunteer Coordinator at QMUNITY - British Columbia's Queer Resource Centre. He also facilitates private sponsorship for LGBTQ-identified refugees to come to Vancouver. Danny is a public speaker and storyteller, as well as an author: his novel The Clothesline Swing will be released by Harbour Publishing House in April 2017 across Canada and the US.

Tunggal Pawestri is the program officer of Rights and Citizenship at Hivos Regional Office South East Asia. She is responsible for the management of the Hivos port folio on human rights, pluralism, and LGBTIQ in Indonesia and Timor Leste. She has been actively promoting women's rights for almost fifteen years not only in the nation's capital but throughout Indonesia. Ms. Pawastri's research interests include women, LGBTIQ rights and feminism, as she envisions equal status for women in terms of social, economic and political status; free from discrimination, marginalization and oppression.

Sudeshan Reddy is a communications specialist at the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) in Pretoria, South Africa. Prior to his current role, Sudeshan worked in communications at the UN Information Centre South Africa, and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. Sudeshan has over 15 years of experience working for UN agencies in Southern Africa on a range of campaigns and initiatives focused on xenophobia, racism, and homophobia. He formulated and implemented anti-discrimination information materials and policy guidelines with an increasing focus on homophobia and xenophobia through various educational initiatives both in high-school and at a university level in South Africa. 

Laurindo Garcia founded the B-Change Group to promote social change through technology. B-Change is a social enterprise that uses websites, apps and data to address social issues such as exclusion of LGBTI and other minority groups. Laurindo has been openly living with HIV for more than 10 years and in2011 publicly shared his story about fighting stigma and discrimination. Since then videos and interviews about Laurindo's experiences made their way to Youtube and Facebook and have become a source of inspiration to many. He and his team at B-Change are building a mobile app to promote LGBT inclusion and also help other community organisations to use information communication technology more effectively.

Dennis Wamala is a human rights activist working with Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex (LGBTI) issues in Uganda. He is the director of programs at Icebreakers Uganda which is a care and support organization for LGBTI people in Uganda, he is the vice-chair of the board of Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG). Dennis sits on the national LGBT security committee which monitors, documents and responds to violations against LGBT people in Uganda. He is also working on human rights connected to health issues especially concerning men who have sex with men (MSM) and has worked on many local and international projects in this regard. 

Natalia Poplevskaia is the Monitoring and International Advocacy Officer with the Russian LGBT Network. In this role she is coordinating the regional monitoring and documentation of hate crimes and cases of discrimination against LGBT people as well as advocating on their behalf  at various local and international levels. She is also organizing a variety of workshops and non-discrimination trainings on the ground and collaborates with local NGOs and institutions.