Bill Dienst, MD is a rural family and emergency room physician from Washington State. He has extensive experience in medical exchange programs in Veracruz, Mexico, as well as the West Bank and Gaza Strip in the Middle East. He has recently worked as the medical coordinator for Salaam Cultural Museum (SCM) in Lesbos and Idomeni, Greece. SCM is a Seattle based non-profit organization conducting humanitarian and medical relief work with refugee populations in Jordan, Lebanon and Greece. He previously co-edited and co-authored the book Freedom Sailors, which is about the maiden voyage of the Free Gaza Movement.

Madi Williamson is a humanitarian from Bainbridge Island, Washington. She has spent over two months working in the refugee camps in northern Greece with SCM. She was inspired to travel to Greece to help with the refugee crisis after successful medical missions to the Dominican Republic and founding her own charity to bring soccer equipment to orphans in Africa and South America. She is the founder of In-Sight, an organization aiming to provide educational and outreach tools to people wishing to learn more about the refugee crisis and other humanitarian disasters.

"First-hand accounts of the Syrian refuge experiences in Lesvos, Idomeni, and Eko camps in Greece from October 2015 through February 2017. Medical practitioners and humanitarian workers from the US, Jordan, and Syria as well as refuges themselves bring to life the refugee crisis in Greece." -- Linda Sartor, Turning Fear into Power