Ben Wizner, Attorney, American Civil Liberties Union
Ben Wizner has been a staff attorney at the ACLU since 2001. He specializes in national security, human rights, and first amendment issues. He has been involved in numerous post-9/11 civil liberties cases, including a challenge to the CIA's abduction, detention, and torture of an innocent German citizen (El-Masri v. Tenet); a suit against a private aviation services company for facilitating the CIA's rendition to torture of five Muslim men (Mohamed v. Jeppesen Dataplan, Inc.); lawsuits aimed at exposing FBI and Pentagon surveillance of non-violent protestors; and suits challenging the discriminatory removal of Arab and South Asian men from commercial flights and other public venues. He has traveled to Guantanamo Bay to observe and report on Military Commission trials. Wizner was a law clerk to the Honorable Stephen Reinhardt of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He is a graduate of Harvard College and New York University School of Law.

Jeanne Baker, President, ACLU of Florida
Jeanne Baker, is a Miami-based attorney in private practice, specializing in criminal defense at the trial and appellate levels.  Since the early 1990s Baker has served as an ACLU board member and in 2006 was elected to a third consecutive term as president.  A longtime supporter of the organization, Jeanne previously served as an ACLU Board member in the states of Massachusetts and Vermont and for six years as Florida's representative to the National Board. Since the mid-1970s Jeanne has provided legal assistance on numerous ACLU cases. 

Eric Smaw, Professor of Philosophy at Rollins College
Eric Smaw received his Ph.D. in philosophy of law and human rights from the University of Kentucky in May of 2005. After receiving his Ph.D., Dr. Smaw pursued post-doctorial studies at the University of Massachusetts where we worked on several articles in the areas of philosophy of law and human rights, including ?An Analysis of the Philosophy of Universal Human Rights: Hobbes, Locke, and Ignatieff,? ?Thomas Hobbes?s Justification for the Supreme Human Right,? ?Reviving John Locke?s Philosophy of Human Rights in an Age of Terrorism,? and, a book tentatively entitled Rational, Social Constructivism as the Proper Justification for Human Rights.