How Do We Restore, Repair, Reconstruct, and Redress?

Karen L. Murphy, Ph.D., is the Director of International Strategy for Facing History and Ourselves. Murphy manages Facing History’s work and the development of partnerships in countries outside the United States and Canada. She is also part of Facing History's senior program and thought leadership teams. She has a special interest in countries emerging from mass violence and/or in transition to democracy and divided societies with identity based conflicts. She has researched, written about, and worked on the ground in several countries, including Bosnia, Colombia, Mexico, Northern Ireland, Rwanda, France, the United States, and South Africa. Murphy has also published journal articles, presented papers, and lectured on the often-neglected role of education in transitional justice processes.

Martha Minow is the 300th Anniversary University Professor at Harvard Law School. She served as Dean of Harvard Law School between 2009-2017. Minow is an expert in human rights and advocacy for members of racial and religious minorities and for women, children, and persons with disabilities. Minow serves on the Board of Scholars for Facing History and Ourselves.

Karine Duhamel is Anishinaabe-Métis and holds a Bachelor of Arts from Mount Allison University, a Bachelor of Education from Lakehead University and a master's degree and PhD in History from the University of Manitoba. Dr. Duhamel served as Director of Research for the historic National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, drafting the Final Report as well as managing its Forensic Document Review Project and Legacy Archive. Dr. Duhamel is now working full time on the National Action Plan that is coming out of the National Inquiry process. Working with Indigenous leadership as well as grassroots groups and family members, she is hoping to assist in promoting justice for MMIWG family members. Karine Duhamel is also an active member of several boards and committees including the International Council of Museums (ICOM) - Canada, the International Council of Archives Experts' Group on Indigenous Matters, the Canadian Historical Association and Facing History and Ourselves.

Marilyn Nelson is the author or translator of seventeen poetry books and the memoir How I Discovered Poetry. She is also the author of The Fields Of Praise: New And Selected Poems, which won the 1998 Poets’ Prize, Carver: A Life In Poems, which won the 2001 Boston Globe/Hornbook Award and the Flora Stieglitz Straus Award, and Fortune’s Bones, which was a Coretta Scott King Honor Book and won the Lion and the Unicorn Award for Excellence in North American Poetry. Nelson’s honors include two NEA creative writing fellowships, the 1990 Connecticut Arts Award, a Fulbright Teaching Fellowship, a fellowship from the J.S. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the Frost Medal. She was the Poet Laureate of the State of Connecticut from 2001-2006.

Susan Neiman was born in Atlanta, Georgia. She studied philosophy at Harvard and the Freie Universität Berlin, and was professor of philosophy at Yale and Tel Aviv University, before becoming director of the Einstein Forum in 2000. Neiman is the author of eight books which have been translated into many languages, most recently Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil. She is the mother of three grown children, and lives in Berlin.