David Biviano, GALDEF co-founder

David. J. Biviano, Ph.D., is a retired Management Consultant, with specialization in Workforce Diversity, Sexual Harassment Prevention, and Manager Training. He worked previously as a Philosophy Professor, Religious Education/Youth Director, and Juvenile Justice Consultant. Having attended the Genital Autonomy Symposium in Seattle, he supported a group of Restoring Men there. He has been an online advocate for Genital Autonomy for over 20 years. He will coordinate the development of an online course for Attorney education in preparation for eventual litigation.

Tora Spigner, RN MSN MLS BS

Tora Spigner has been a labor and delivery nurse since 1997 and a doula since 1995. Her involvement as an , intactivist began in 1990 and has been maternity adjunct professor since 2016. She has also been member of the Berkeley Health Commission since 2018. In addition, Tora is also the acting director of Mothers For Mothers Postpartum Justice Project, an organization that supplies restaurant meals, supplies and education and support for new Black mothers in the San Francisco bay area.

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Travis Wisdom, BA, MA, LLM

Travis Wisdom is a PhD candidate at the University of Adelaide. His research interests relate to human rights, particularly the rights of the child, and the socio-legal regulation of body transforming procedures, including child genital cutting, genital normalizing, and gender affirmation procedures.

Justine Block, J.D.

Justine is an accomplished administrative law attorney in Los Angeles, California. Previously in-house counsel for the largest metropolitan planning organization in the United States, Justine served on the organization’s executive team, advising a governing board of over 70 local elected officials in Southern California and managing the legal department. She’s specialized in grants administration, rulemaking/regulatory compliance, government contracts, public-private partnerships, public policy-making and legislative strategies. She also received recognition from the State Bar of California for service as Chair of the Public Law Section executive committee. Prior to practicing law, Ms. Block served as a legislative analyst at a lobbying firm in Washington

D.C.

Mohamed Abdel A.Baky Fahmy

Dr. Fahmy is Emeritus Professor of pediatric surgery at Al Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt. He graduated from Al Azhar University and the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and trained in the field of pediatric surgery at Egypt and Manchester, UK. He is Founder and Chief for the pediatric surgery departments at Al Azhar University Hospital, Egypt, and Visiting Professor in Leipzig University, Germany. He authored five books about congenital urogenital anomalies and another about circumcision complications.

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Mx. Anunnaki Ray Marquez

Anunnaki is a survivor of psychic mutilation, a parent of three kids, a spouse of thirty-one years, a gender nonconforming androgynous intersex man, a musician and artist, and an intersex social activist whose educational work focuses on an individual’s right to bodily autonomy and the right to express their true gender identity.

Alliana Arshad

Alliana Arshad is a genital autonomy activist and community organizer. As a second-generation South Asian immigrant, she is passionate about championing the intersectionality of the genital autonomy movement. While not religious herself, Alliana’s multicultural background includes Islamic, Catholic, and Jewish faiths, inflected through racialized and queer identities. Motivated by her experiences as an intersex transfeminine woman struggling to find non-male-dominated support for her own violated genital autonomy, in 2022 Alliana founded the Genital Autonomy Collective, a network of advocacy and support groups based in Portland, Oregon. The Genital Autonomy Collective focuses on the intersection of violated genital autonomy and marginalized identities, especially trans, intersex, and gender-diverse identities.

T. T. Perry, PhD (they/them)

Perry is an applied and translational sensory scientist and advocate for gender and genital autonomy who became an activist and (self-)advocate for bodily integrity and genital autonomy as a teenager, seeking to elevate conversations among clinicians and researchers that understand children as the primary meaning-makers of their own bodies and primary authors of their life stories. Perry’s scientific contributions span more than 15 years, with publications in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Trends in Hearing, the American Journal of Audiology, and more. Their work encompasses a broad range of topics and techniques, including the perceptual consequences of direct nerve stimulation, subjective and objective outcomes of patient-directed healthcare, and large-scale epidemiological investigations of health concerns in U.S. military service members. Perry is gender nonbinary and a foreskin restorer. Personal site.

Martin Novoa

Martin is retired from investment banking in New York, Chicago and San Francisco. He has long been active in the movement to bring about awareness on infant and childhood circumcision, particularly in the United States, as well as intersex surgery and female genital cutting, and has been interviewed extensively in print and online media. Martin has attended and presented at many international symposia and conferences on bodily integrity and autonomy and is well-known in the movement for bodily rights. He earned his BBA in management and finance and an MBA from the University of Chicago, where he also attended law school.