Alfred  Babo teaches at Fairfield University in the International Studies Program and Sociology and Anthropology Department. Prior to joining Fairfield, he taught at the University of Bouaké in Côte d’Ivoire (West Africa), and later at Smith College in Massachusetts,USA. In 2015, he directed the Humanities Lab on “Forced Displacement, Immigration, and Refugees.” Babo’s research focuses on sustainable development, social change and community development, immigration, and post-conflict society.

Anita Fábos is an anthropologist and Professor of International Development, Community and Environment at Clark University. She has worked and conducted research together with Muslim Arab Sudanese in the diaspora on transnational identity and mobility in the Middle East, Europe, and North America. She has published widely on topics related to race, ethnicity, and gender identities for people on the move, Muslim mobilities, and the acoustics of diaspora.

Leora Kahn is the Executive Director of PROOF: Media for Social Justice, a nonprofit  that creates visual documentary projects that become sustainable educational tools in regions riven by recent armed conflict and atrocities. She also works on projects at the Clark University around  the ethics of representation, with a focus on refugees and forced migrants.

Craig Mortley is a political asylee in the United States, he has been a refugee practitioner for over 6 years and provides direct services to asylum seekers and refugees in Worcester Massachusetts through a faith based organization called  LGBTQ Asylum support TaskForce.  Craig has engaged in  policy advocacy for asylum seekers, asylees and refuges  at the city and state level. He sit on the board of a legal aid organization that provides legal and counseling services to immigrants as well as participate in local working groups working to fostering greater integration of immigrants and improving healthy outcomes for marginalized and vulnerable populations