Rebecca Tinsley is a journalist and human rights activist who has worked in nine African countries. She founded Waging Peace, a London-based group campaigning on Darfur, and she is on the international council of Human Rights Watch. Together with her husband Henry, she was asked by President and Mrs Carter to start the Carter Centre UK.

Rebecca completed a law degree at the London School of Economics. She is a former BBC politics reporter, she stood for election to the UK parliament twice during the 1980s, and two of her novels have been published.

Henry Tinsley is former chairman of Green & Blacks Chocolate and has spent most of his career in business. He now focuses on campaigning and philanthropic work.

Henry is currently a trustee of Technoserve Europe, Carter Centre UK, Article 1 and The Belu Foundation. He is a co-founder & director of the campaigning group 38 Degrees.

Henry has a Modern History Degree from Oxford and an Honorary Doctorate from De Montfort University.

With a day job as a marketing and communications consultant, ex Miami resident and gorilla enthusiast Hillary Cannon is now shivering her way around the North of England. Though she would love to ditch both job and current geography and run swiftly and permanently away to Rwanda, at this point in time, all she (with the help of her partner Rich) is actually able to do is coordinate the collection and shipping of goods to our various friends in the Land of a Thousand Hills.

She has also tried her hand at coordinating visitor groups in Rwanda (rather quickly overcoming the terror of operating a motor vehicle in Kigali), and helps when and where possible to secure goods needed to support various projects."

Lauren joined a trip to Rwanda in November 2007 with Network For Africa to learn about the country and its history.

Since Lauren's first trip she remained interested in Rwanda and  Network for Africa's projects there and decided to return as a volunteer in early 2010 to work with the women's empowerment group, Women Developing Rwanda.'

Lauren's professional background  has been predominately in the banking and IT sector. Since mid 2010 she made a large career change and moved into the not-for-profit sector, working as a fundraiser for a UK based charity.