Dame Catherine Healy is a founding member of NZPC and a long-time advocate for sex worker rights. She was a co-editor of Taking the Crime Out of Sex Work and frequently provides information and advice affecting sex work law and policy to official bodies.

Dr Leonie Pihama is an Associate Professor and Director of Te Kotahi Research Institute, University of Waikato. A former Fullbright scholar, Director on Māori Television's establishment board and more recently on the Board of Te Māngai Pāho, she is one of Aotearoa’s foremost Kaupapa Māori theorists and researchers. Leonie is a Principal Investigator on a number of research projects including the Honour Project Aotearoa, the inaugural national study of factors associated with Takataapui and Māori LGBTQI health and wellbeing in Aotearoa.

Dr. Matthew Golden is a professor of medicine in the Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the University of Washington (UW) School of Medicine, and the Director of the Public Health – Seattle & King County HIV/STD Program and the UW Public Health Capacity Building Center. He received his BA in history from Grinnell College, his MD and MPH from Johns Hopkins University, and completed a residency in internal medicine and a fellowship in infectious diseases at the UW. Dr. Golden's research integrates public health practice with operational research, and includes studies conducted in the US and in sub-Saharan Africa. Much of his work has related to HIV/STD partner services and efforts to use field outreach services to improve the HIV care continuum.

Dr. Carmen Logie is an Associate Professor, Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto, Adjunct Scientist at Women’s College Hospital, and Ontario Ministry of Research & Innovation Early Researcher. She has been awarded funding from Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada, Grand Challenges Canada, and Canada Foundation for Innovation, to lead global research focused on sexual health and rights. She is particularly interested in understanding and addressing intersectional stigma and its sexual health impacts. She is currently conducting mixed-methods and intervention sexual health and rights research with: Indigenous Northern adolescents in Northern Canada; African, Caribbean and Black women in Ontario, Canada; and urban refugee and displaced adolescents in Uganda. Her community-based research aims to: identify social ecological vulnerabilities and protective factors associated with sexual and reproductive health outcomes; and provide evidence of effective interventions to improve sexual and reproductive health and rights.