Deadria Farmer-Paellmann is a lawyer and the executive director of the Restitution Study Group (RSG). Her pioneering work has led to legislative change in New York concerning the roles of American banks in financing chattel enslavement and the transatlantic slave trade, and today she coordinates the campaign for joint rights over the Benin bronzes for descendants of transatlantic enslaved Africans globally.

Esther Xosei is a leading scholar and activist in the International Social Movement for Afrikan Reparations in the UK. She is co-vice chair of the Pan-Afrikan Reparations Coalition in Europe and serves as the legal advisor for the Stop the Maangamizi: We Charge Genocide/ Ecocide Campaign.

Sheila Camaroti Silva is a Brazilian descendant of enslaved Africans. Now resident in Germany, she campaigns for greater historical literacy around slavery and forced migrations and is an advocate for RSG’s work globally.