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KRISTINA ARRIAGA

Kristina Arriaga is a passionate communicator with a storied life —from orchestrating the rescue of a Cuban woman and her two children, for which she was featured in Vanity Fair and Reader’s Digest, to visiting American Pastor Andrew Brunson in a prison in Turkey, attending his judicial hearings in Izmir, and advocating for his release both in Turkey and through the pages of The Wall Street Journal.  She is particularly interested in free speech, freedom of religion or belief, and international human rights for girls and women, and has written extensively on all these issues. Her latest work on the effect of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) includes an op-ed on the first FGM/C case in the United States. A recent USAToday piece on cancel culture went viral.

In 2016, the U.S. Congress appointed her to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom where she was elected Vice Chair for two consecutive terms. In protest over legislation which turned the watchdog agency into a government lapdog, she resigned with an explanatory op-ed for the Wall Street Journal. During her 3-year tenure, she met with high ranking government officials to advocate for human rights in Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Egypt, Nigeria, Turkey, and many other countries. 

Before the Commission, Arriaga was a member of the U.S. delegation to the UN Human Rights Commission as well as the executive director of a public interest law firm that defends free expression.

Arriaga is the recipient of the 2017 Newseum Free Expression Award. Other recipients that year were Apple CEO Tim Cook, ABC correspondent Martha Raddatz, and civil rights champion John Lewis. Arriaga is a sought-after speaker and has appeared on BBC, MSNBC, C-Span, CNN, and NPR. Her writing includes op-eds published in USA Today and The Hill, and she has  lectured at numerous academic institutions.

Kristina has a master’s degree from Georgetown University and is reading for her DPhil at the Oxford Law Faculty at Oxford University. (A DPhil is Oxford’s version of a PhD.) She is happily married and has three grown-up kids, a disobedient dog, and two cats. 

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Matt is a digital communications authority. He has led dozens of online programs and campaigns, driving hundreds of thousands of signatures, votes, shares, and other actions that matter. He spearheaded social media campaigns supporting litigation at the Supreme Courts of two countries. He has consulted for several academic, nonprofit, and religious institutions on digital communications through his firm, Pesch. 

Matt has appeared on FOX Business as a featured expert and has written about digital strategy for The Wall Street Journal, The Hill, and other outlets. He holds a master’s in communications from Georgetown University and sits on the U.S. board of Centesimus Annus Pro Pontifice. He lives in Huntsville, Alabama with his family.