Dr. Joyce Apsel holds a Ph.D. from the University of Rochester and a J.D. from Rutgers School of Law. She is a Master Teacher in the General Studies Program at New York University. She is a past president of the International Association of Genocide Scholars (2001-2003) and the Founder and Director of Rights Works, an international education project on genocide and human rights. She is co-editor with Helen Fein of Teaching about Genocide (2002). She has given countless lectures and written multiply articles on genocide and education.

Yair Auron is a Senior Professor at The Open University of Israel in the Department of Sociology. He is the author of numerous articles and books on genocide and on contemporary Judaism including: Jewish Israeli Identity, The Banality of Indifference: Zionism and the Armenian Genocide, The Banality of Denial: Israel and the Armenian Genocide and The Pain of Knowledge: Reflections on Holocaust and Genocide Issues in Education.

Dr. Peter Balakian holds the Donald M. and Constance H. Rebar Chair in Humanities. He received his Ph.D. from Brown University in American Studies and has published several books and articles on the Armenian Genocide including The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response (HarperCollins, 2003) and Black Dog of Fate: A Memoir (Basic Books, 1997). Both books were listed as New York Times notable books of 2003 and 1997 respectively. 

Dr. Paul Bartrop is a Holocaust and Genocide Studies Fellow at the School of Social and International Studies at Deakin University, as well as a Professor at Bialik College, in Melbourne, Australia.  He has been a Scholar-in-Residence at the Martin-Springer Institute for Teaching the Holocaust and a Visiting Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University.  His publications include: Surviving the Camps: Unity in Adversity During the Holocaust, and the edited volume, Teaching about the Holocaust: Essays by College and University Teachers (with Samuel Totten and Steven Jacobs).

Morgan Blum is the Education Director of the Holocaust Center of Northern California, where she develops curriculum, conducts teacher training and teaches a class about Holocaust to young people.  She received a Master's in Genocide Studies from Deakin University; with a focus on the aborigines of Western Australia.  Blum was an editor for The Genocide Education Project's first edition of lesson plans, Human Rights and Genocide: A Case Study of the First Modern Genocide of the 20th Century.

Dr. Israel Charny is currently the president of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, the Executive Director of the Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide, and Founder as well as Former Director of the Program for Advanced Studies in Integrative Psychotherapy at the Department of Psychology & Martin Buber Center, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He receive his Ph.D. from the University of Rochester in clinical psychology has been a leading scholar in establishing the field of Holocaust and Genocide Studies. He regularly writes and lectures about genocide denial. Charny is also the editor of the Encyclopedia of Genocide, the first encyclopedia of its kind.

Dr. Vahakn Dadrian currently is Director of Genocide Research at the Zoryan Institute. Dadrian received a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Chicago. He has worked with Harvard University as a Research Fellow, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a Guest Professor and Duke University as a Visiting Professor. He is an internationally acclaimed lecturer on the Armenian Genocide and has conducted ground breaking research in the field for over 40 years. His specialty is legal analysis of the Armenian Genocide and has received accolades and awards from various countries and institutions. Dadrian has published numerous books and articles. For a complete biography and a bibliography of his work please visit www.zoryaninstitute.org.

Dr. Richard Hovannisian is Professor of Armenian and Near Eastern History at the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Hovannisian received his Ph.D. from UCLA. He is the author and editor of various books including Armenia on the Road to Independence, The Armenian Holocaust, The Armenian Image in History and Literature, The Armenian Genocide in Perspective, The Armenian Genocide: History, Politics, Ethics, and Remembrance and Denial: The Case of the Armenian Genocide. He has also published more than fifty scholarly articles. Hovannisian is a Guggenheim Fellow and has received countless awards and honors for his pioneering scholarship in the field of Armenian Studies.

Richard Kloian is the Director of the Armenian Genocide Resource Center.  For over three decades, his growing depository of documents on the Armenian Genocide has helped advance the field of genocide studies.  Kloian edited The Armenian Genocide: News Accounts from the American Press: 1915-1922.  In 2002, he was honored by the San Francisco Bay Area Armenian National Committee as a "Local Hero," for his dedication to the study of the Armenian Genocide.

Paul Krekorian is currently the California State Assemblymember representing the 43rd assembly district.  Krekorian was the President of the Board of the Burbank Unified School District. He served on the Board from 2003 to 2006. Paul Krekorian has worked tirelessly to ensure the recognition of the Remembrance Day for the Armenian Genocide in the Los Angeles area. Krekorian also worked to ensure that Burbank world history teachers have the resources necessary to teach about the Armenian Genocide.

Greg Krikorian is the immediate past president of the Glendale Unified School District Board of Education.  He is serving his 6^th year as a Board Member having recently been elected to a second term.  Mr. Krikorian has been actively involved in various district and community organizations and is a highly respected member of the community.

Dr. Levon Marashlian received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles.  He is currently a Professor of History at Glendale Community College.  He was involved in the development of instructional materials on genocide and human rights while serving on the California Department of Education Curriculum Advisory Committee in 1987.  His publications include Politics and Demography: Armenians, Turks and Kurds in the Ottoman and numerous articles in scholarly journals and edited books.

Dr. Simon Payaslian  holds the Charles K. and Elisabeth M. Kenosian Chair in Modern Armenian History and Literature at Boston University. He received a Ph.D. in Political Science from Wayne State University (1992) and a Ph.D. in History from UCLA (2003). He is the author of The History of Armenia: From the Origins to the Present (2007); United States Policy toward the Armenian Question and the Armenian Genocide (2005); The Armenian Genocide, 1915-1923: A Handbook for Students and Teachers (2001); International Political Economy: Conflict and Cooperation in the Global System (co-author with Frederic S. Pearson) (1999); U.S. Foreign Economic and Military Aid: The Reagan and Bush Administrations (1996); as well as articles on the United Nations, international law and human rights, diaspora, peace studies, and the Kurdish question.

Harut Sassounian has been the Publisher of The California Courier, an English-language Armenian weekly newspaper in Glendale, since 1983. He is the Founder and President of the United Armenian Fund (UAF), a coalition of the seven largest Armenian-American charitable and religious organizations.  As the Vice Chairman of Kirk Kerkorian’s Lincy Foundation, he oversaw the implementation of $150 million of infrastructure-related projects in Armenia. He is currently overseeing Lincy's new $60 million project to renovate schools, roads and streets in Armenia.

He has a Master's Degree in International Affairs from Columbia University and an MBA from Pepperdine University.  His most recent book, The Armenian Genocide: The World Speaks Out, 1915-2005, Documents & Declarations, was published in April, 2005. The Arabic translation of his book was published in Lebanon in January 2006. The French, Spanish, Russian, Armenian and Turkish translations are expected to be published shortly.

Adam Strom is the Director of Research and Development at Facing History and Ourselves, a national education organization. Strom was the principle writer and editor of Facing History and Ourselves' newest resource book Crimes Against Humanity and Civilization: The Genocide of the Armenians, an outstanding addition to the canon on the Armenian Genocide. His work spans from the Armenian Genocide to religion, conflict resolution and other human rights related topics.

Dr. Henry Theriault received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Massachusetts. He serves as Associate Professor of philosophy and coordinates the Center for the Study of Human Rights at Worcester State College (Massachusetts, USA). His research interests include genocide, nationalism, and the philosophy of history. He has presented papers on the Armenian Genocide around the world including the University of Tokyo, University of California, Los Angeles, and Haigazian University in Beirut.

Dr. Nicole Vartanian is the Senior Advisor for Academic Planning at Hunter College.  Dr. Vartanian was a Senior Research Associate at the U.S. Department of Education. She received her EdD from Columbia University where she was a recipient of the Delores Zohrab Liebmann Academic Fellowship. Vartanian was a Visiting Professor and Scholar under the Fulbright Scholars' Program in Yerevan, Armenia. Her education work has spanned from publishing articles in assorted education magazines and journals to serving with the World of Difference Institute (ADL) and Project Harmony.

Jack Weinstein is the director of the San Francisco Bay Area office of Facing History and Ourselves. He received his Masters' in English from California State University, Hayward and taught high school until 1995 when he joined the Facing History staff. He conducts workshops, institutes, and other professional development activities for educators and community members. He has developed several model courses and units for Facing History and Ourselves.