Rameen Javid Moshref is the Executive Director of Afghan Communicator (AC), a community based, grass-root organization dedicated to education, advocacy and youth leadership. He received his Masters Degree in Near Eastern Studies from New York University in 1996. As a specialist on Afghanistan, Rameen has attended many conferences in Afghanistan, the US, and Europe. AC is known nationally and internationally for many activities in the Afghan community and has won the prestigious Union Square Award from Funds For The City of New York in 2002.

Sayu Bhojwani is Commissioner of the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs. Ms. Bhojwani is the Founder and former Executive Director of South Asian Youth Action (SAYA!), a youth development agency serving over 300 youth each year. For the 2001-2002 academic year, she was in the Charles H. Revson Fellows Program on the Future of the City of New York. Ms. Bhojwani came to New York in 1987 to earn an M.A. from Teachers College. In New York City, she became concerned about the lack of South Asian involvement in the political process and in the city's schools and civic associations. She founded SAYA! in 1996 to develop leadership skills and encourage civic and political participation among young South Asians, as well as to create a safe space for the South Asian youth community in Queens and to encourage the pursuit of higher education and nontraditional careers by young South Asians.

Ms. Bhojwani serves on the board of the New York Foundation, which provides grants to grassroots organizations working to improve the lives of New Yorkers. In 2000, she received a Union Square Award for the significant contribution her community activism has made to the lives of New Yorkers, and in 2001, she received the Helen La Kelly Hunt Women's Neighborhood Leadership Award from the New York Women's Foundation.

Glenn D. Magpantay, Esq. is Staff Attorney at the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), where he directs AALDEF's program areas in census and voting rights. He has previously been the AALDEF Asian American Democracy Project Director and NAPIL Equal Justice Fellow. He has been at the forefront of advancing policy concerns on the census impacting Asian American to top officials in The White House, Congress, Department of Commerce, and Census Bureau in Washington, New York, and Boston. For instance, he successfully secured a legal opinion to ensure the confidentiality of census information would protect the anonymity of undocumented immigrants.