Nadine Maenza is a noted speaker, writer, and policy expert who currently serves as Co-Chair of the International Religious Freedom (IRF) Roundtable in Washington, DC, and as Chair of the Institute for Global Engagement (IGE). She previously served four years on the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), including as Chair. Nadine currently serves on the boards of the Sinjar Academy and the Freedom Research Foundation. She is a graduate of Penn State University, married with three adult children, and lives in Chester County, Pennsylvania.

Sarah Makin is a human rights advocate, filmmaker, and former U.S. government official with deep expertise in national security policy and international religious freedom. She served in the first Trump administration as Deputy Assistant to the President, Senior Director on the National Security Council, and the President’s Senior Advisor on International Religious Freedom. Prior to that post, Sarah served as Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of Strategic Outreach, Public Liaison, and Intergovernmental Affairs to Vice President Mike Pence. Sarah currently operates her own strategic advising firm in Washington, DC, and is a producer of A Faith Under Siege, a documentary highlighting the persecution of Christians in Russian-occupied Ukraine.

Reverend Johnnie Moore, PhD. is President of The Congress of Christian Leaders, and was a two-time Presidential appointee as a Commissioner for the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom. He began his career at Liberty University, where he served as the school’s Senior Vice President and Chaplain. He then served as Chief of Staff and Vice President of Faith Content for the United Artists Media Group in Hollywood before founding The KAIROS Company. Moore serves as the Vice Chancellor and Managing Director of Middle East Studies at Pepperdine University in Washington, D.C.

Robert Nicholson is Editor-at Large of Providence, co-founder and board member of Save Armenia, founder of The Philos Project, and co-founder of Passages Israel. Robert also serves on the advisory board of In Defense of Christians and The Hague Initiative for International Cooperation (thinc). A formerly enlisted Marine and Tikvah Fellow, he holds a BA in Hebrew Studies from Binghamton University, and a JD and MA in Middle Eastern History from Syracuse University. His written work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Telegraph, New York Post, Jerusalem Post, Times of Israel, Newsweek, First Things, The Hill, and National Interest.

Matias Perttula is the Director of Save Armenia: A Judeo-Christian Alliance. Previously, Perttula served as the Director of the Center for American Values at the America First Policy Institute. Before joining AFPI, Perttula was the Director of Advocacy for International Christian Concern (ICC), where he led the government relations efforts to inform the key legislators on global religious freedom challenges facing Christians and other religious minorities. During his time at ICC, he traveled to Nigeria and Pakistan, where he worked with government and civil society leaders to promote religious freedom. He also chaired the Program Committee for the International Religious Freedom Summit in 2021 and 2022. Perttula completed his master’s in business administration in 2013 at Southeastern University and was named the most outstanding graduate of his class. Perttula previously completed his bachelor’s degree in political science and history at the University of California, Los Angeles. He also studied at the Harvard Extension School in International Security Studies.

Endy Zemenides is the Executive Director of the Hellenic American Leadership Council (HALC) and a Nonresident Fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs (CCGA). Prior to HALC, Zemenides served as Senior Advisor to former Illinois State Treasurer and Democratic nominee for the United States Senate, Alexi Giannoulias, and practiced municipal and governmental law in Chicago for over a decade.  He also serves as a Director of Spring Bank, and writes regularly for Greece’s leading daily newspaper Kathimerini and for NEO Magazine. On May 17, 2022, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis bestowed Zemenides with the insignia of the Commander of the Order of the Phoenix on behalf of the President of the Hellenic Republic.

Alberto M. Fernandez is Vice President of the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) and a contributor to EWTN News. He previously served as President of Middle East Broadcasting Networks (MBN), a US-funded Arabic-language news organization, from 2017 to 2020.  Prior to joining MEMRI, Ambassador Fernandez was a Foreign Service Officer from 1983 to 2015 and served as the State Department’s Coordinator for the Center for Strategic Counterterrorism Communications from 2012 to 2015. He also served as U.S. Ambassador to Equatorial Guinea and U.S. Charge d’Affaires to Sudan. He held senior public diplomacy positions at the U.S. embassies in Afghanistan, Jordan, Syria, Guatemala, Kuwait, and in the Department’s Near East Affairs (NEA) Bureau. He speaks fluent Spanish and Arabic in addition to English.

Travis S. Weber, J.D., LL.M., is Vice President for Policy and Government Affairs at Family Research Council, where he oversees research, policy development, and engagement with government officials in championing FRC’s core mission priorities of faith, family, and freedom.

As part of his role, he has overseen the strategic development of numerous written submissions and filings to government bodies, including international organizations, federal agencies, and the U.S. Congress. Travis has written and spoken widely on policy and legal issues related to faith, family, and freedom both in the U.S. and around the world. He has testified on religious freedom before the Military Personnel Subcommittee of the House Armed Service Committee, conducting religious freedom and human rights training in places like Iraq, and led pro-family and freedom conversations at strategic dialogues and conventions at a national, regional, and global level. In the course of his work, Travis has examined the impact on religious freedom within the United States that has arisen from shifting cultural attitudes toward faith and family values. Globally, he has raised awareness about cases of genocide around the world, examined the effect on international human rights law when it is detached from its moral and religious grounding, and surveyed the impact on family and moral values that comes from shifting religious trends in a society.

Before joining FRC, Travis practiced law in the areas of civil rights, criminal defense, and military law. He holds a J.D. from Regent University School of Law, where he served as the Notes & Comments Editor on Law Review. Travis also graduated with an LL.M. in International Law (with distinction) and a Certificate in International Human Rights Law from Georgetown University Law Center.

Travis previously served in the U.S. Navy as a pilot after graduating from the U.S. Naval Academy, where he was captain of the Intercollegiate Sailing Team and a two-time College Sailing All-American.