Chung-Wha Hong is Executive Director of Grassroots International. As a global justice advocacy and grantmaking organization, Grassroots International connects progressive donors in the US, to high-impact social movements in the Global South. For over 25 years, Chung-Wha has worked on a range of social justice issues locally and internationally, through organising, policy advocacy, coalition building and philanthropy.  Named by the New York Magazine as one of the most Influential People in Politics, Chung-Wha helped to build the political clout of New York State’s immigrant communities through a comprehensive civic engagement program, and helped to win numerous legal, social and economic rights and benefits for those communities.

Chung-Wha’s past activism includes working on health care, worker rights and human rights issues at the Campaign to Save Public Hospitals, Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance AFL-CIO and the Korea Information Project.

Donal Mac Fhearraigh is a program officer at the Open Society Initiative for Europe, where he leads the portfolio on countering state and regulatory capture and is also involved in developing grant making strategies on community organising. Before joining Open Society in 2014, Mac Fhearraigh worked as the national coordinator and press officer for an Irish coalition of leftist parliamentary parties called the United Left Alliance. He has worked on a wide range of grassroots campaigns for economic justice, women’s rights, and antiwar movements, including anti-austerity protest movements and the Occupy! movement in Ireland. He also helped mobilize groups for the European and World Social Forums. He sits on the global board of the EDGE Funders Alliance.

Mac Fhearraigh has a joint honors degree in computer science and theoretical physics from University College Dublin.