Susi Meret

I am an Associate Professor at the Department of Politics and Society at the University of Aalborg, North Jutland in Denmark. My research interest is primarily with radical right-wing parties and movements in Europe, and specifically how these employ gender and gender-related issues in their discourses and mobilizations. I am an academic activist and particularly in the years 2015-19 I closely engaged with refugee-led mobilizations in Germany, also networking with activists in France, Italy and the Netherlands. I like and prefer to work with participatory methodologies and ethnography.

Lise Rolandsen Augustin

I am an associate professor at Aalborg University (Denmark) where I am doing research on gender equality policies, transnational civil society and feminist movements in Europe. In the last few years, I have worked particularly on sexual harassment and policies and initiatives to create harassment-free organizations and environments. In addition, my focus has been on political intersectionality as well as inclusive policy-making processes from an intersectional perspective. I am also teaching at our master degree program in International Relations, particularly on the profile courses in Global Gender Studies.

Deniz Bayram

I am a senior lawyer, campaigns and advocacy consultant, combining legal expertise with hands-on experience in women’s rights, gender equality, climate justice, environment protection and energy policies. I specialize in advocacy, strategy building, and implementation in civil society. I have worked with organisations like Purple Roof Women’s Shelter Foundation, Greenpeace, Change.org, and Human Rights Watch. I’ve contributed to various publications in gender justice and climate issues as (co-)author and editor. As part of my post-graduate education at Galatasaray University, I’ve completed my thesis on Corporate Environmental Crimes and Developments on International Criminal Law. I have been involved in strategic litigation, monitoring the case against Turkey’s withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention since 2021 and the country’s first climate lawsuit filed on behalf of young activists.”

 Maëlle Noir

Maëlle Noir is a member of #NousToutes’ national steering committee, France’s largest collective against gender-based violence (GBV). She is involved in press and public relations and research and is particularly interested in the fight against femicides. She co- supervises a study on the media coverage of femicides and coordinates the inter-orga féminicides, a coalition conducting the femicide census. She joined #NousToutes in 2020 through the GBV training program which offers online sessions with volunteers having trained more than 100,000 persons in less than a year. She co-organises the yearly protests for the 16 days of activism in November as well. She is also a researcher and part-time lecturer at the Irish Centre for Human Rights in feminist legal theory.

Jasna Podreka

Dr. Jasna Podreka is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana. She specializes in the sociology of gender and social violence, focusing on intimate partner violence, femicide, and the impact of social structures on gender inequality. She completed her Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of Ljubljana, where she analyzed the social and institutional responses to femicide in Slovenia. Her work combines qualitative research with applied social science, aiming to improve awareness and institutional approaches to GBV. She also engages in public advocacy, contributing to media discussions and policy initiatives to prevent violence against women. Through her academic and public engagement, she is committed to advancing gender equality and supporting violence prevention efforts in Slovenia and beyond.

Sonja Lokar

Sonja Lokar, professor of French language and sociology, graduated from Ljubljana University in 1971. She worked as a political analyst, MP in socialist and the first multiparty assembly of Slovenia. She had an active role in defending the freedom of birth in the Slovene Constitution of 1991, and in defending free-of-charge abortion and hormonal contraception – both rights are under sporadic attacks of political catholic right. She led a regional CEE Network for Gender Issues for 17 years, and a Stability Pact for SE Europe Gender Task Force for 10 years. In 2012 she was the president of the European Women’s Lobby. She is now the president of the Women’s Lobby of Slovenia.

Victoria Showunmi

Dr Victoria Showunmi is an Associate Professor at UCL’s Institute of Education. Her interests are gender, identity, and race through intersectional lens, focusing on leadership
and the lived experience of Black women and girls. She develops fresh frameworks on equity and social justice, showing how culture and cultural background could disrupt power structures and lead to transformative change. She is a member of the Gender and Education Executive, and is a chair for the British Educational Leadership Management and
Administration Society, and of the International Studies SIG, American Educational Research Association, and co-convenor at the Gender Network, European Educational Research Association. She is on the editorial board of the Bloomsbury Series on Educational Leadership, and assistant editor for the International Journal of Leadership in Education.

 Anikó Orsós

Anna Orsós is a women’s rights officer at the European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC). She graduated in HR management and has worked in education since 1999. She was a regional coordinator at the National Educational Integration Network and at the Amrita association for integrated education of Roma youth. She has been promoting women’s autonomy through non-formal learning and developed human rights activities with a gender perspective, including reports and expert recommendations on Roma women’s rights. She ran a workshop at the Annual Global South Women’s Forum on Sustainable Development on integrated/segregated and special education in Ruanda. Since 2021, she has been a member of the informal Roma Women’s Network in Hungary.

Dominika Kasprowicz

Activist, feminist, journalist, educator, ESL teacher. Since 2016 involved in the the grassroots social movement Women’s Strike. Since 2023, she has worked as an abortion doula, supporting Abortion Dream Team and Legalna Aborcja, a pro-abortion lobbying collective. She was a coordinator and organiser of protests in Iława and a member of the feminist association Brave. Member of the press team, and between 2020 and 2022, of the board of directors of the Polish Women’s Strike Foundation. Hosted the feminist TV programme “This is War”. Co-author of the Defend the Defenders campaign. Currently associated with the Legal Abortion and Abortion Dream Team collectives. Runs workshops on (empathetic) communication, misinformation prevention, journalism and social media for NGOs, and anti-discrimination. Studying needs-based coaching and NVC. Mother of 3 teenagers, yogi, vegan, minimalist, striving for zero waste. Singer-songwriter.

Rafaela Pimentel

Domestic worker, activist, and feminist. Of Dominican origin, I have lived in Spain for 31 years, I have a son, and a first grandson who is giving me a lot of joy. I am founder of the collective Territorio Doméstico along with other fellow domestic and care workers and feminist companions. I also formed Senda de Cuidados (Part of care), an employment
initiative for many migrant people who have difficulty entering the labor market. This project started in 2012. I have also written the prologue of the book Criada (Maid) of the publishing house Capitán Swing, which has been made a series on Netflix of 10 chapters.

Veronique Cerasoli

Véronique Cerasoli is a specialist in #feminism, #gender, and #LGBTI+ rights. As a trainer and consultant, she organizes and participates in numerous training sessions, workshops, symposiums, and conferences on these topics. She is an activist and board member of the association SOS Homophobie, where she is responsible for institutional advocacy and is the spokesperson for medically assisted procreation (MAP) and feminist issues. Véronique has gained extensive experience in inter-associative, international, and multidisciplinary projects related to her areas of expertise.

Birte Siim

Birte Siim is Professor Emerita in Gender Research, Department of Politics and Society, Aalborg University (AAU), Denmark. Her research interests include: Gender and
Citizenship; Diversity and Intersectionality, Welfare States and Democracy, Populism and Nationalism;, Migration and Solidarity Activism. She is in the Advisory Board of FIERCE; edits the Palgrave Handbook on Gender and Citizenship from Intersectional and Transnational Perspectives with P. Stoltz, 2023. Her publications cover topics such as gender representation in (Danish) political parties, EU citizenship and gender, migrant resistance and solidarity, intersectionality of migration, race, gender and sexuality, and the interplay of nationalism, activism and solidarity (movements).

Giada Bonu Rosenkranz

Giada Bonu Rosenkranz is a research fellow in project FIERCE at the Scuola Normale Superiore. After attending the Master’s Program in Gender Studies and Politics at Roma Tre, she received her Ph.D. in Political Science and Sociology from the Scuola Normale Superiore, and is part of the Center for Research on Social Movements. Her research explores the links between feminist movements, democracy, and urban space, focusing on participatory methods. She is part of the editorial board of the journal on feminist studies DWF. Since 2021 she has also been part of the scientific council of the Gender Studies section of the Italian Sociology Association and directs, with Nicolò Bertuzzi and Jacopo Custodi, the series “Il cantiere delle idee” for Castelvecchi Editore. She published the book: “Burn down the city. Gender, transfeminism and urban spaces”. Florence: Unifir, with Federica Castelli and Serena Olcuire.

Bertil Emrah Oder

Bertil Emrah Oder is a professor of constitutional law and director of the Women and Gender Studies Center at Koç University, Istanbul. She holds the UNESCO Chair on
Gender Equality under the UNITWIN Network. She has promoted human rights and gender equality in different research and capacity-building projects of the UN Women, Inter-Parliamentary, EU and Council of Europe on democratization, civic society, and constitutionalism. Her recent publications include: “Diversity and Plurality in Constitutional
Context”, Plurality and Diversity in Law: The Human Rights Paradigm, (with B. Gürcüoglu), Laurence Burgorgue-Larsen (Ed.), International Academy of Comparative Law Series, Intersentia, 2023; “Feminist Struggle and the 1924 Constitution: In Search of Feminist Constitutionalism in the Early Republican Era”, Diritto Pubblico Comparato ed Europeo, Special Issue, 2023/2.

Magda Saginashvili

Magda Saginashvili holds a Master’s degree in European Policies from the University of Padova and a Master’s in Gender Studies from Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University. She has been advocating for gender equality and social justice from a young age, initiating social learning and training courses to challenge gender stereotypes in Kakheti and Guria in 2017, Georgia. Magda has contributed to women’s rights NGOs, served as a consultant for Georgia’s Parliamentary Gender Equality Council, and currently holds a board position at Women in Development Europe (WIDE+). Additionally, she works as an invited research analyst at the NGO Femina and has pioneered a university course on gender-sensitive policymaking in Georgia. Her research interests include gender mainstreaming, women’s political participation, GBV, and feminist movements.