Attorney General Rob Bonta is the 34th Attorney General of the State of California. He is the first person of Filipino descent and the second Asian American to occupy the position. In the State Assembly, he enacted nation-leading reforms to inject more justice and fairness into government and institutions. As the people’s attorney, he sees seeking accountability from those who abuse their power and harm others as one of the most important duties of the job. He has led statewide fights for racial, economic, and environmental justice and worked to further the rights of immigrant families, renters, and working Californians.

Ann Burroughs is the President and CEO of JANM. An internationally recognized leader in the fight for human rights, she is currently chair of the Board of Amnesty International USA and was previously chair of Amnesty International’s Global Assembly. She is chair of the Japanese American Confinement Sites Consortium and serves on the board of the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation. Her lifelong commitment to racial and social justice was shaped by her experience as a young activist in her native South Africa when she was jailed as a political prisoner for her opposition to apartheid. Previously, she served as executive director of the Taproot Foundation and LA Works and worked for the Omidyar Network and the Rockefeller Foundation.

Connie Chung Joe, JD, is the CEO of Asian Americans Advancing Justice Southern California, the nation’s largest legal and civil rights organization for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. Previously, she served as the executive director of the Korean American Family Services, and was a public interest lawyer at the Housing Rights Center in Los Angeles, where she represented clients in fair housing cases, and at the American Civil Liberties Union in Chicago, where she worked on immigrant’s rights, reproductive rights, post-9/11 racial profiling, police accountability, and First Amendment cases. 

Lisa Holder is the president of Equal Justice Society (EJS), a leader and premier coalition partner of the reparations movement in California and across the nation. Under her leadership, EJS continues to build its dynamic civil rights practice to dismantle discriminatory school discipline and the school-to-prison pipeline, create a just and equitable legal system, promote and protect Black women’s health, and combat white supremacy and the extremist forces that threaten democracy. She is a nationally recognized, award-winning trial attorney specializing in equal protection, education equity, employment discrimination, constitutional policing, and international human rights law.

Thomas Saenz is president and general counsel of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF). He leads the organization in pursuing litigation, policy advocacy, and community education to promote the civil rights of all Latinos living in the United States in the areas of education, employment, immigrants’ rights, and voting rights. He rejoined MALDEF in August 2009, after four years on Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s executive team.  He previously spent twelve years at MALDEF practicing civil rights law.