Professor Ra’ad Zeid Al Hussein is the former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (2014–2018). He also has served as Jordanian representative to the UN (2000–2007) as well as Jordan’s Ambassador to the US and non resident ambassador to Mexico (2007–2014). He played a key role in the creation of the International Criminal Court and was elected the first president of the Assembly of State Parties of the International Criminal Court in 2002. He is currently the Perry World House Professor of the Practice of Law and Human Rights at the University of Pennsylvania. 

Professor Zeid spoke at the Immigration Forum 2020 on the global immigration crisis from a human rights perspective. 

Professor Katherine Benton-Cohen is the author of Inventing the Immigration Problem: The Dillingham Commission and Its Legacy (Harvard, 2018). She is also the author of Borderline Americans: Racial Division and Labor War in the Arizona Borderlands (Harvard, 2009), which was the basis for her work as historical advisor for the much-acclaimed documentary feature film, Bisbee ’17. She is currently a professor of history at Georgetown University and is working on a global history of the Phelps-Dodge family, whose capitalist and philanthropic links between New York, the US-Mexico Borderlands, and the Middle East profoundly changed each region. 

Professor Benton- Cohen spoke at the Immigration Forum 2020 on the ways in which gender has affected immigration policy in the United States. 

Professor Jane Hong is the author of Opening the Gates to Asia: A Transpacific History of How America Repealed Asian Exclusion (University of North Carolina Press, 2019). Her book situates the transnational movement to repeal America’s Asian exclusion laws in the context of black civil rights struggles at home and US military intervention in a decolonizing Asia. Hong received her PhD in US/International History from Harvard University and is a professor of history at Occidental College. She is currently writing a book on how post-1965 immigration from Asia is changing US evangelicalism and evangelical politics. 

Professor Hong spoke at the Immigration Forum 2020 on the history of immigration in the US and naturalization laws governing Asian immigrants.