Since 1997, Ms. Anderson has covered US policy toward Cuba,cultivating congressional, organizational and grassroots support for the LAWG coalition's efforts to end the US embargo on Cuba. She also works on US policy toward Venezuela and other issues. Prior to her work with LAWG, she was the Program Director for International Travel Seminars at the Center for Global Education at Augsburg College, Minneapolis, where she worked since 1982. During part of her time with the Center for Global Education, she lived in El Salvador from 1988-1990, where she founded and coordinated the Center's El Salvador educational programs. A mid-westerner, Ms. Anderson received her Master's degree from Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota, where she focused her studies on international development.
Mr. Devine is actively involved in a range of issues including national security, occupational free speech, forestry, and safe meat and poultry; he also serves as counsel on whistleblower reform legislation. He is a Phi Beta Kappa honors graduate of Georgetown University, and received his J.D. in 1980 from Antioch School of Law. In March 1998, Mr. Devine was honored with the Fund for Constitutional Government’s Defender of the Constitution Award for his work with whistleblowers. Under Mr. Devine's leadership, the Government Accountability Project filed a law suit with U.S. Office of Special Counsel against the U.S. Department of State for publishing false and misleading statements about the Cuban embargo
Since 1988, Dr. Kirkpatrick has been a physician at the University of South Florida. His research on the sanctions on health in Cuba have appeared in virtually every major medical journal in the world. He provided testimony before Congress on two occasions on the effects of the US embargo on the public health sector in Cuba. He has been asked to comment on CNN NEWS and to testify before international organizations such as the Organization of American States (OAS). Following his testimony to the OAS that organization wrote a letter to the US Government requesting that the restrictions on the shipment of medicines to Cuba be lifted, calling the sanctions a violation of international law. On two occasions, Dr. Kirkpatrick was honored by Governors of the state of Florida for his research and leadership at the University of South Florida.