Cavid Ağa is an Azerbaijani journalist-in-exile from Baku. Since 2016, he has delivered news from South Caucasus. He was detained in Baku days after Bahruz Samadov's arrest in 2024, questioned and was put under travel ban until his release in 2025.

Role: talk on human rights situation in Azerbaijan / Bahruz Samadov Case

Jessica Bahl is co-founder and co-owner of Samara Collective - a worker-owned cooperative strategic communications agency, former General Manager at Mirror Image Inc.

Role: co-organizer of the Activism Summit

Jennifer Daltry is a local Rhode Island artist and graduate of Rhode Island School of Design.
Role: at the Activism Summit Jen will be working with participants printing with bag and banner decoration.

Nathan Freitas is a digital security expert and trainer who works with activists, journalists, and human rights defenders around the world. His work focuses on protecting people online, securing devices, and identifying manipulated or AI-generated content. 
Role: Nathan will lead workshops on digital safety and media awareness, helping participants build practical skills they can use immediately.

Daniel Gwynn is a former death row prisoner who was wrongfully convicted of murder and sentenced to death in 1994 for an arson fire that resulted in the death of Marsha Smith in Philadelphia. After nearly 30 years in prison, Daniel was exonerated by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in 2024, when the District Attorney’s Office found significant flaws in the original investigation. Daniel is the 197th person exonerated from death row in the United States since 1973. 
Role: Talk on wrongful convictions, the death penalty, and the human impact of incarceration.

Witek Hebanowski is a human rights organizer and international solidarity practitioner whose work focuses on art, education, participatory democracy and cross-border movement building. Witek has long worked at the intersection of culture, community, and human rights, connecting grassroots initiatives across countries and contexts. While an Amnesty volunteer he started Amnesty's largest global action Write for Rights. 
Role: co-facilitator of the Activism Summit, he will speak also about international human rights cases, solidarity strategies, and lessons drawn from organizing under authoritarian conditions.

Marksen Hrz is a human rights advocate working on issues affecting the Kabylia region of Algeria. His work focuses on political repression, cultural rights, and international solidarity with Kabylian communities facing state violence and discrimination.
Role: at the Activism Summit, Marksen will speak about the human rights situation in Kabylia and the importance of international awareness and solidarity in supporting communities under repression.

Alicia Koutsoulier is is the Amnesty International Country Specialist for Israel & Occupied Palestine Territories. She also serves on the board of directors of Partners for Palestine (www.partnersforpalestine.org).

Role: leading workshops on the situation in Gaza

Scott Langley is a longtime Amnesty International member and volunteer leader who has served as a State Death Penalty Abolition Coordinator since 2004, currently in New York State. In 2017, he co-founded Death Penalty Action, a national organization working to bring public attention to executions and the human impact of capital punishment in the United States. His work centers the lived experiences of people impacted by the criminal legal system and supports broader efforts to end the death penalty.
Role: Scott’s unique contribution to the movement is his long-running photo documentary on the death penalty, which is on exhibit as part of Action Camp. 

Robyn Linde is a professor of political science and the director of the International Nongovernmental and Nonprofit Organizations Studies program at Rhode Island College in Providence, R.I. Her book, The Globalization of Childhood: The International Diffusion of Norms and Law Against the Child Death Penalty, was published in 2016 by Oxford University Press. She has also been published in the Journal of Human Rights, the European Journal of International Relations, Case Research Journal, Radical Teacher, the International Journal of Minority and Group Rights, and the International Journal of Children’s Rights.
Role: at the Activism Summit Robyn will be working with participants on non violent strategies for social change.

Andy MacDougall is a printmaker and organizer who works at the intersection of art, community, and social justice.
Role: Andy will lead hands-on printing focused on creating movement materials, sharing practical skills, and supporting collective action through creative work. Andy will be facilitating sessions across both days of the Action Camp.

Michelle Moxley is an artist skilled in screen printing, special effects printing, color separations, graphic design, pre-press, digital printing, and textiles.

Role: Creating visual projects and materials for actions produced within the Factory of Hope.

Quantum Moon, headed by trumpeter Matt Kelly fuses elements of free jazz, funk, rock, and more. The band navigates deep waters and celestial planes while keeping a pulsing undercurrent of steady groove. The musicians set up a delicate interplay leading to surprising and spontaneous moments that make each show unique. Keep an eye out and your ears open and you might get pulled into their orbit. Matt Kelly- trumpet, Bruno Peterson- guitar, Devon Hurt- bass, Henry Godfrey- drums.
Role: musicians at the Activism Summit

Chris Monti. Chris works in the Healing Arts Department at Rhode Island, Bradley, and Hasbro Children’s Hospital providing soothing, stress-releasing music for adults and children. Chris performs for children and families in Elementary Schools and Libraries. He provides an upbeat, interactive musical performance on guitar, harmonica, whistling and vocals. The show is family friendly with music that spans folk music, early rock and roll, pop, and international music. Chris plays for Adults and Seniors in nursing homes, assisted livings, public housing and senior centers, providing an upbeat, interactive program of well-known songs and sing-alongs from the 1930s up through the 1960s.
Role: musician at the Activism Summit

David Rendell is long term Amnesty International member (Area Coordinator for New Jersey and Eastern Pennsylvania), originally from South-East London. Every summer works at a socially conscious, progressive childrens' summer camp in Western Massachusetts. 
Role: representative of Amnesty International Area Coordinators Steering Committee and Photographer

Rick Roth is a long-time human rights activist and a socially engaged entrepreneur. The founder of Mirror Image, a union-run, environmentally responsible screen-printing company. Initiator of the Get on the Bus for Human Rights. As a member of Amnesty International, collaborator with Students for a Free Tibet, and supporter of initiatives such as Farm Aid, One Caucasus and the New Orleans Musicians’ Clinic, he has consistently linked creative work with concrete social justice action. Read more. 
Role: host, co-coordinator and co-facilitator of the Activist Summit

Mahmoud Al-Thabata is a Palestinian-American student organizer and junior at Harvard College, studying Social Studies and Modern Middle Eastern Studies as a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow. He is a leader of Harvard’s Palestine Solidarity Committee, a columnist for The Harvard Crimson, and has been active in campus organizing, public advocacy, and media commentary on Palestinian rights and academic freedom.
Role: Talk on College Campus Freedom of Speech

Kelly Turley is Associate Director at Massachusetts Coalition for the Homeless and the coordinator of the legendary Amnesty International Group 133 from Somerville, MA. 
Role: Co-organizer of the Summit, co-leader of workshop on human rights in Tibet

Gregory E. Waksmulski, Jr. is an information systems and community engagement professional specializing in digitization, collections management, and strategic program development. He serves as an AERIE Program Instructor at Wheeler School and has held leadership roles in cultural, educational, and civic organizations across Rhode Island.|
Role: Co-organizer of the Summit

Dhondup Wangchen is a Tibetan filmmaker and former political prisoner, best known for co-directing the documentary Leaving Fear Behind, which featured interviews with Tibetans speaking openly about Chinese rule ahead of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Arrested and sentenced to six years in prison for “subversion,” he was recognized by Amnesty International as a prisoner of conscience and later received the International Press Freedom Award; after his release in 2014, he eventually escaped to the United States in 2017.

Role: talk on human rights in Tibet.

Tsela Zoksang is a Tibetan-American human rights activist and the Campaigns Director at Students for a Free Tibet. Her work focuses on amplifying the voices of Tibetans inside Chinese-occupied Tibet and training the next generation of grassroots organizers advocating for Tibetan rights and freedom. Tsela works closely with Tibetan communities in exile and with global stakeholders to advance strategic campaigns for human rights. She is a recent graduate of New York University, where she earned a Bachelor’s degree in Politics. 
Role: At Action Camp, Tsela will speak about the current human rights situation in Tibet and global solidarity efforts.