Attorney and advocate for equity, empathy, healthcare, and civil rights. Team player, hard worker, and big dreamer. Striving to engender a more reflective, effective democracy and deliver the best possible representation to my clients.

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Faraj Aalaei, an Iranian American immigrant and a 40-year veteran of the communications industry, is currently the Founding Managing Partner at Candou Ventures. As an entrepreneur Faraj has raised several hundred million dollars for his semiconductor companies from private and public investors, executed several M&A deals and as CEO taken two previous start-ups, Centillium and Aquantia through IPO. His last IPO, Aquantia, was acquired by Marvell Semiconductors where Faraj stayed on as Executive VP in charge of Marvell's Networking and Automotive businesses, a billion dollar revenue segment and the largest business at Marvell.

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Dr. Farshid Delshad is a scholar of Historical-Comparative Linguistics and Classical Philology with a particular focus on ‎philological impact of Iranian and Semitic elements (Loanwords & Calques) in Caucasian languages and ‎specially in Georgian. Furthermore I am interested in mutual influence and interrelation between ‎ Irano-Islamic Sufism and Jewish Kabala. Minority Studies–and in particular status of the ethnoreligious ‎and linguistic minorities in the Middle East–is also one of my scholarly interests.‎

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L.J. Semrod Presidential Professor of Economics and co-director of Center for Peace and Development at the University of Oklahoma (Norman, OK). I specialize in applied analysis of macro and micro development issues in the Global South. My main fields of research are development economics and international economics, focusing on the issues of structural change, long run development and growth, financial globalization, South-South trade and finance, political economy of development, and comparative economic development in the Middle East.

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Shukriya Bradost is an Iranian Kurdish Middle Eastern security analyst, a frequent commentator in media outlets such as Al Jazeera, the Jerusalem Post, and the Observer, and a doctoral candidate at Virginia Tech University, where she focuses on the securitization of ethnic groups in post-revolutionary Iran.

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Azadeh is the founder of Burnt Generation Studios, an intellectual property development, and production company that develops and produces independent films with the mission to create and promote authentic narratives to build grounds for mutual understanding and shifts in the collective perspective of the audiences.

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Ali Dadpay has 20 years of experience in writing, teaching, research, and consulting experience in the data analytics and aviation industry, focusing on data-driven research and documentation that has led to 11 publications, including 6 first-author publications and & grant funding.

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Abdolrasool (Farzam) Divsallar is a political scientist working on the Middle East regional security system with a focus on Iran. He is a visiting Professor of Middle Eastern Studies at the Higher School of Economics and International Relations (AZERI) at Università Cattolica del Sacro Core in Milan and a Non-resident Scholar with MEI's Iran Program.

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Umud Shokri is a Washington-based Senior Foreign Policy Advisor and Energy Strategist , Author of, US Energy Diplomacy in the Caspian Sea Basin: Changing Trends Since 2001, served as a Visiting Research Scholar in the Center for Energy Science and Policy (CESP) and the Schar, School of Policy and Government at George Mason University and currently serves as Faculty Associate - George Mason University. He has written about the geopolitics of energy and natural gas, political economy of hydrocarbon states, sustainable cities and mobility, the pace and trajectory of energy transition, the geopolitics of US sanctions against Iran oil exports, and the geopolitics of energy in Europe, the Eastern Mediterranean, Middle East, Central Asia, and Caspian Sea Region.

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Azadeh Pourzand is the Executive Director of Siamak Pourzand Foundation, dedicated to the promotion of freedom of expression. A PhD candidate at SOAS University of London's Global Media and Communications department, she is a graduate of Harvard Kennedy School of Government with a Master in Public Policy (MPP), a graduate of Nyenrode Universiteit with a Master in Business Administration (MBA) focused on entrepreneurship, and a graduate of Oberlin College with an honors bachelor's degree in Comparative Literature. A human rights advocacy officer at Impact Iran, a coalition of 14 NGOs working to advance human rights in Iran

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