Ali Noorani is president & chief executive officer of the National Immigration Forum, a nonpartisan advocacy organization working with faith, law enforcement and business leaders to promote the value of immigrants and immigration. Through innovative constituency, communications and advocacy strategies, Ali is one of the nation’s most creative coalition builders. Ali provides a principled and reasoned voice on immigration policy and politics at the local, national and global level. Ali holds a Master’s in Public Health from Boston University and is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley. He lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife Toya Gavin, and is the author of There Goes the Neighborhood: How Communities Overcome Prejudice and Meet the Challenge of American Immigration (2017) and Crossing Borders: The Reconciliation of a Nation of Immigrants (2022), as well as host of the “Only in America” podcast.

Bob Naerebout has spent the entirety of his career within the dairy industry. He graduated from Michigan State University in 1975 and has experienced life as a University employee when he managed Michigan State’s Dairy Research and Teaching Center, to milking his own herd of cows for nearly 20 years prior to moving to Idaho. In 2002 Bob took a position with the Idaho Dairymen’s Association (IDA) as their Executive Director. During the fall of 2017, Bob narrowed the focus of his role with the Association to leading IDA in its government affairs. Bob currently serves on the Executive Committees of both the National Immigration Forum and the Agricultural Coalition for Immigration Reform as well as a committee member of the University of Idaho Latino Advisory Committee and the National Milk Producers Federation Immigration Taskforce. Through Bob’s engagements surrounding immigration reform, he and the IDA has become widely recognized as a leader in the immigration reform debate. IDA and Bob received the Community Council of Idaho 2017 Advocate of the Year award, which speaks to his tireless work supporting our mmigrant communities.

Zeze Rwasama has been Executive Director of the College of Southern Idaho Refugee Programs since 2017. CSIRP is a comprehensive refugee service program combining initial resettlement services for newly arriving refugees, through case management services and on-site English language training, as well as employment counseling and placement with local employers. Since it's inception, the CSIRP has resettled more than 2500 refugees from a variety of different continents, providing local businesses with a steady source of entry level workers. The program has also brought more than $3 million of federal money and benefits back to the Magic Valley that have been used to purchase goods and services from local merchants. It has also been a source of students pursuing career and professional upgrades through the College of Southern Idaho.