Yaron Hoffmann-Dishon is a researcher and New Media coordinator at the Adva Center . Holds an MA in Sociology from Ben-Gurion University.

Mira Oppenheim is the office manager and is responsible for media relations. She worked in the field of communications as a reporter, and as a research assistant and deputy editor of films, series and documentary projects.

Lital Biton, Creative and Graphic Artist at the Adva Center. Holds a BA in Art.  Studying for a Master’s degree at the Cohen Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas at Tel Aviv University.

Head of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Ben Gurion University of the Negev. Lectures and writes on globalization, gender, supra-national women’s movements, human rights and civil society. Her present projects explore the complex relationships between feminism and neo-liberalism as reflected in civil society organizations and care work in the family.

Professor of Urban Studies and Political Geography at Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheba. His research has focused on critical understandings of the relations between space, power, inequality and conflict. Yiftachel is also a social activist who is a member of several organizations working for social justice, equality and peace.

Associate Professor of Communication and Journalism at Suffolk University in Boston; research interests include the media’s role in shaping the sphere of public discourse, media criticism, media coverage of social and political conflicts, and representation of minorities in the media.

Professor in the department of Politics and Government at Ben Gurion University in the Negev. Research interests include health policy, the right to health, inequality in health and accessibility to health services, and privatization of the health system. Additional research areas: the connection between neoliberalism, the crisis of representation, the limitations of liberal democracy and the growth of populist movements. Board member of Physicians for Human Rights.

Professor of Social Work at the Bob Shapell School of Social Work at Tel Aviv University. Areas of research and instruction include (1) clinical and administrative information systems in human resources services – uses and influences, (2) evaluation of processes, results, impacts and sustainability of social programs, (3) minority groups and at risk populations, (4) critical examination of practices and experiences of social workers, (5) social work and social justice.

Architect and city planner, graduate of MIT (MAarch) and the Technion (Ph.D.), member of the Faculty of Architecture and City Planning and head of the Technion Social Hub. Her research, based on critical theory in the social sciences, cultural and gender studies, intermediates between different practices of the creation of space and examines the mutual relations between policy (planning) and physical design (architecture) and that between daily life, in order to enrich the toolbox of the planner in a way that combines professional knowledge, local knowledge and knowledge of place. She has worked on housing projects in the United States, Holland and Israel, engaging primarily in urban design and neighborhood planning. Her professional work is primarily with community and civil society organizations and aims at strengthening community involvement in planning.