An activist in various social change movements since the 1970s, pattrice jones is the author of Aftershock: Confronting Trauma in a Violent World, which is a handbook for activists and their allies. She is the cofounder of the Eastern Shore Sanctuary & Education and previously worked with numerous organizations, including the Ann Arbor Tenants Union and the Baker-Mandela Center for Anti-Racist Education. She received her training in psychology at the University of Michigan and currently teaches at Metropolitan State University and at Minneapolis Community & Technical College.

Marcio Gagliato is a Clinical Psychologist and Organizational Consultant specialized in delivery of multi-sectorial development and humanitarian assistance programs with special emphasis in psychosocial and mental health programs.

Marcio started his work during the nineties, working with vulnerable Favelas (slum) communities in Brazil as a social activist leader. Since then, passionate for the cause of social justice and believing a better world is possible, Marcio has become an internationally based professional and has worked in more than 10 countries with a range of international organizations from governmental agencies, INGOs and universities.

Marcio consulted and worked for CARE International and Save the Children Alliance as a Staff Psychosocial Advisor in different roles. Nowadays, he is working for Center for Victims of Torture as Psychotherapist/Trainer in Zimbabwe where he is in charge of capacity building programs for local NGOs that work with victims of organized violence and torture, providing training, policy development, crisis intervention services and sustainable and culturally adapted staff support systems.

David Gangsei, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist specializing in human rights, mental health and social justice. He has 25 years experience working in organizations providing multidisciplinary rehabilitation services for survivors of politically motivated torture. From 2000 – 2008, he served as Clinical Director at Survivors of Torture, International in San Diego, developing a multi-disciplinary program serving over 700 survivors from 55 countries. This work included network and resource development, supervision, treatment and training. David has specialized expertise in documenting the psychological effects of torture for legal proceedings. He has conducted training and consultation with NGO staff at human rights and psycho-social service organizations in Mexico, Peru, El Salvador and Sierra Leone. Currently, he coordinates a project with Physicians for Human Rights training law students and legal professionals to work effectively with traumatized clients and to recognize and manage vicarious trauma. During his tenure with Survivors of Torture, International, he observed and named the phenomenon of “vicarious resilience,” whereby trauma workers are inspired and empowered through their exposure to the resilient capacities of survivors. His joint publications on that theme have been published in Family Process and Traumatology.

Amber is both a longtime practitioner of body centered arts and sciences (somatic psychology, massage therapy, Life Impressions Body-work -- based on the teachings of Ida Rolf, Ayurvedic medicine and Feldenkrais -- dance movement therapy, energy medicine, cranio-sacral therapy, yoga, and shiatsu), and an advocate of human rights. She has twenty years experience in human services and work with displaced people, refugees, and survivors of human rights abuses such as torture, war, and organized violence. Her expertise is in the development of culturally congruent programs that reinforce individual and communal resilience for communities who have experienced mass social trauma such as war or natural disaster. She combines somatic psychology, current trauma and neuropsychological research, movement therapy, ritual, creative arts, and Continuum in her trainings for health and mental health professionals and paraprofessionals. Her passion is in training paraprofessionals globally who work on the edge, and in the field, to work creatively through the body and the arts to assist survivors of human rights abuses and mass atrocities. As a dancer, her passion is Afro-Caribbean dance, and she was co-director of Planetary Dance Ensemble for four years.

Inspired by "What's the Point of the Revolution..." Lin is working with the Institute for Women's Empowerment on "sustaining activists, our organisations and our movements"

Jane Barry is a human rights activist and author, specializing in the intersections of peace, security and gender. In 2008, she designed and co-facilitated a series of training workshops on an exciting new concept called ‘integrated security’ for women human rights defenders from Asia, Central Asia, Latin America and Africa. Her latest books include: Insiste, Persiste, Resiste, Existe: Women Human Rights Defenders Security Strategies (with Vahida Nainar); What’s the Point of the Revolution if We Can’t Dance? (with Jelena Djordjevic) and Rising up in Response: Women’s Rights Activism in Conflicts. Jane also has considerable experience of humanitarian and human rights emergencies at the global policy level and in the field, where she worked for several years in the former Soviet Union, the Balkans and Africa designing and managing emergency response programs. She holds a Certificate in International Human Rights Law and Practice from the London School of Economics (LSE) and a BA from Middlebury College in Soviet Studies. She is currently a Principal at Linksbridge, LLC.

Holly Hammond is a facilitator and activist educator with the Change Agency (Australia). Holly has been facilitating groups ever since she became an activist at high school in the early 1990s. She has experience of activism in a number of social movements, including youth rights, women’s liberation, sex industry law reform, peace and environmentalism. She has worked for a diverse range of community based organisations in advocacy, policy development, management, union organising, campaigning, education and community development roles. She is passionate about planning, developing coalitions, ending oppression, building community and assisting activists to lead balanced and rewarding lives.