Sara Winegar Budge, PsyD is the VP and Director of Client Services at Life After Hate, an organization that provides services to support disengagement, deradicalization, and reintegration of individuals involved in violent far right extremist movements. She is a licensed psychologist in Oregon whose practice focuses on individuals who are or have been involved in violent far right extremism. Dr. Budge has taught the psychology of terrorism at the undergraduate and graduate level, and currently serves as an instructor in the graduate program at the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Response to Terrorism (START) at the University of Maryland.

Raquel Thompson (she/her/ella) is a deep listener and thorough problem-solving generalist who has partnered with several social justice organizations to identify their core challenges and launch new solutions. Her expertise is in culturally relevant program design, curriculum development, strategic planning, staff orientation and training, power and privilege analysis, and group facilitation. She has deployed these skills within organizations large and small, long-established and recently founded, within and outside of the U.S. Born in Panama, raised in Brooklyn, Raquel received her Bachelor of Arts from Yale University, before then spending the next 15 years of her life working, living, and learning across Africa, Latin America, and Europe. She currently resides in Brooklyn, NY and is enjoying reconnecting with the community of thinkers and doers in her hometown, while also making sure to spend extended time in the mountains.

Shan specializes in developing solutions to complex strategic, organizational and operational issues affecting global health non-profit organizations, private philanthropies, multilaterals, and US health care payer and provider systems. Through her tenures with the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), Recon Strategy, Results for Development Institute and now Pharos Global Health Advisors, Shan specializes in developing forward-looking strategies, resource mobilization approaches, competitive landscapes and investment cases for organizations and governments focused on nutrition, HIV, TB, and maternal and child health issues. More recently, Shan has advised developing countries and NGOs on Covid control, and published several op-eds in the New York Times, the Boston Globe and Politico on domestic Covid control and return-to-work strategies. Shan also works with her clients to improve their organizational effectiveness and leadership development. Her clients have included the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Gavi, Unitaid, the Global Fund, Partners in Health, Nutrition International, and Kirk Humanitarian. Shan holds a PhD in Experimental Medicine, and a B.Sc. in Microbiology & Immunology, both from McGill University, and an MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health.