Avto is a Junior Fellow at CRRC Georgia.

Aygun is a freelance journalist publishing in Azerbaijani and regional media, including her current work as a multimedia producer at Voice of America. She has also worked on international documentary film festivals including CineDOC-Tbilisi and DokuBaku and is the founder of Sevil, an international women’s documentary film festival in Azerbaijan.

Ayman Eckford is a Ukrainian civil rights activist, political expert, and journalist, who currently lives in Sheffield. He is focused on the Chechen-Ukrainian relationship and Russian abuse of the ‘War on Terror’. Ayman is an independent analyst for the Solid Info think tank.

Aytan is an accomplished journalist with extensive experience of working with Azerbaijani, regional, and international media outlets and organisations. Formerly associated with Meydan TV, a prominent Azerbaijani online TV outlet in exile, she is now based in Georgia. Aytan is passionate about investigative journalism and courageously covering topics ranging from government accountability to domestic violence.

Bahruz is a political activist and PhD candidate at Charles University in Prague.

Bakar Berekashvili is a professor of Political Science and Sociology at the Georgian American University in Tbilisi.

Bashir is an independent journalist and photo reporter from Azerbaijan. His main focus is on the Azerbaijani-Armenian conflict, propaganda, and the politics of the South Caucasus and the CIS region.

Benedikt is an Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation Fellow at the Centre for Transatlantic Relations at Johns Hopkins University in Washington, DC and Assistant Professor at the Russian East European Eurasian Studies Centre (REEES) at the University of Graz, Austria.

Catherine is a senior associate with the Europe and Central Asia programme at Human Rights Watch.

Chloe is a documentary photographer who explores contemporary culture and the political themes that underpin it.