Kerry Kennedy is president of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights. Under her leadership, RFKHR partners with the bravest people on earth to create lasting change. A human rights activist and lawyer, she authored the New York Times bestseller Being Catholic Now, as well as Speak Truth to Power, Robert F. Kennedy: Ripples of Hope, and the forthcoming Ethel: Faith, Hope, Family, and an Extraordinary American Life, scheduled for publication in the fall of 2026.

Kennedy has devoted over 40 years to the pursuit of equal justice, the promotion and protection of basic rights, and the preservation of the rule of law. She works on child labor, women’s rights, disappearances, Indigenous land rights, judicial independence, freedom of expression, ethnic violence, criminal justice reform, immigration, impunity, environmental justice, and more.

A member of the Massachusetts and District of Columbia bars, she is a graduate of Brown University and Boston College Law School.

For years, living under the constant threat of assassination, Salvadoran farmer Francisco Pineda courageously led a citizens’ movement that stopped a gold mine, financed by Pacific Rim, a US corporation, from destroying El Salvador’s dwindling water resources and the livelihoods of rural communities. His efforts led to metal mining being banned in El Salvador, the first country in the world to do so. It also led to the brutal murder of four of his colleagues in the anti-mining movement.

In 2011 Pineda was recognized for his effective activism by the Goldman Environmental Prize, often referred to as the Green Nobel Prize. In 2009, The Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) presented Francisco and four other members of El Salvador’s National Roundtable Against Metallic Mining with the Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Award for their resistance at the community level; to win a national law banning metals mining.

Marcel Gomes is an investigative journalist and executive secretary of Repórter Brasil, a non-profit media outlet focusing on human rights and environmental reporting.

His work linked Brazilian beef giant JBS to illegal deforestation in the Amazon rainforest, which led to six major supermarket chains in Europe halting the sale of JBS products. In 2023, Hyundai pulled out of areas in the Amazon where Gomes reported that heavy machinery the company manufactured was accelerating illegal deforestation. Also in 2023, a Repórter Brasil investigation revealed that Starbucks sourced coffee beans from farms involved in slave and child labor. Marcel was the 2024 Goldman Environmental Prize recipient for South and Central America and was named to Forbes Magazine’s first ever list of 50 Sustainability Leaders.

Time after time, independent documentary filmmaker Will Parrinello has found big screen outlets for his creative expression, from Sundance to Tribeca and Venice, PBS to MTV and Netflix. For more than 35 years, he has produced and directed award-winning films for broadcast, cable, and streaming.

Parrinello’s feature documentary Water For Life, a Ford Foundation/JustFilms, National Geographic All Roads, Wallace Global Fund grantee, had its national PBS premiere on Earth Day 2025. The film explores the collision of water rights, Indigenous beliefs, and resource extraction through the lives of three Latin American community leaders.

Other credits include the multiple Emmy Award-winning series The New Environmentalists, (PBS / Sundance Channel / ARTE) who share a common goal, safeguarding the Earth’s natural resources from exploitation and pollution, while fighting for justice in their own communities. Narrated by Robert Redford and Sigourney Weaver.

For nearly 20 years, Ellen Dorsey has led the Wallace Global Fund, a philanthropic organization that supports social movements driving systemic change, advancing corporate accountability, human rights, and gender, economic, racial and climate justice. Ellen has a Ph.D. in Political Science and a passion for supporting, partnering with, and documenting people-powered movements that challenge the abuse of power and advance justice-centered strategies for social and economic change. Under her leadership, Ellen helped seed and grow the divest-invest movement.

Ellen has written extensively about social movements, NGO strategies, and philanthropy. Previously, she served as a professor of political science at multiple universities, directed the Rachel Carson Institute, started the Human Rights and Environment program at Amnesty International, and led an environmental health initiative at the Heinz Endowments. And she has served on the boards of many organizations, such as Greenpeace US, Amnesty International, Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the US Human Rights Network, and Seventh Generation Company.