Melissa Ditmore, Ph.D., was the inaugural Chair of the Advisory Board of the Sex Workers Project and is a consultant on issues of sex work, mobility and migration, HIV and sexual health. She edited the Encyclopedia of Prostitution and Sex Work (Greenwood Press, 2006). She has also written about sex work, migration and trafficking for The Lancet and SIECUS Report and has contributed to Sex for Sale (Routledge, 2010), Trafficking and Prostitution Reconsidered (Paradigm, 2005), and Affective Turn (Duke, 2007.) Dr. Ditmore has spoken about prostitution, migration rights and research ethics at the United Nations, the International Conference on HIV/AIDS, Columbia University, Cornell University, Hong Kong City University and numerous academic and political conferences.

Jenn Clamen has been passionately engaged in the Canadian and global sex worker rights movements since 2000. She began her work with the International Union of Sex Workers in London (UK) and in 2003, with Kara Gillies, founded the Canadian Guild for Erotic Labour. Clamen worked as a Mobilization and Communications Coordiantor at Stella, and is an active member of the Coalition for the Rights of Sex Workers. She is currently a board member of Montreal’s group for and by sex workers, Stella, and a North American representative on the Board of Directors of the Global Network for Sex Work Projects, and a member of the Board of Directors at Montreal’s Centre for Community Organizations (COCo). She is also a part-time lecturer at Concordia’s Simone de Beauvoir Institute and the Institute for Community Development. Clamen is currently pursuing her doctoral studies.