Mimi Lok is a writer and editor whose work builds on over fifteen years' experience in literary arts and education in the UK, China, and the US. She is the cofounder and executive director of Voice of Witness, and a recipient of the Smithsonian American Ingenuity Award for Social Progress.

Dave Eggers is the author of many books including The Circle and A Hologram for the King. He is the cofounder of 826 National, a network of writing and tutoring centers. He is the cofounder of Voice of Witness and ScholarMatch, a college access organization which connects donors and under-resourced.

Jennifer Lentfer is a Nebraska farm girl turned international aid worker. As creator of how-matters.org, she is one of Foreign Policy Magazine's 100 women to follow on Twitter. The director of communications at IDEX, she is currently coediting a book on funding visionary grassroots leaders.

Rajasvini Bhansali is the Executive Director of IDEX and a passionate advocate for participatory grassroots-led social change and movement building. She has led a social enterprise, a telecommunications infrastructure fund addressing digital divide, and she has been a researcher and strategy consultant.