Special Guest: Carmen K. Iezzi-Executive Director, Fair Trade Federation. Carmen completed her master's degree with a focus on the impact of regional integration on good governance from American University. Presently, she acts as Vice Chair of the Board of Directors for Ten Thousand Villages of Alexandria, is a director for the Abyssinian Fund, chairs the Millennium Development Goals Task Force for the UN Association of the National Capital Area, and served on the editorial board of the Journal of Fair Trade Studies.

Special Co-host: Meg Widholm is a Fair Trade enthusiast with a commitment to the abolition of sweatshops and equal pay for equal work. She has done volunteer work for 10,000 Villages, a non-profit Fair Trade retail store with locations in the United States and Canada. She is currently employed in IT and working in parallel to open a Locally-Produced and Fair Trade retail shop in the Philadelphia area.