An Angolan feminist activist, Sílvia has a degree in sociology, journalist and educator. She has more than 5 years of experience in community work, having served as coordinator and project assistant in one of the largest NGOs in Angola, ADRA. She has been a member of the Ondjango Feminist General Assembly since 2020. She is a member of the PALOP Youth Coalition. She is interested in themes such as climate justice, women’s rights, decolonization, public policy, international relations, race and culture. She is also a poet and researcher, having participated in several studies on women’s rights and their participation in agricultural production in Angola.

Edwige Renée Dro is a writer, literary translator, and literary activist from Côte d’Ivoire. Her short stories have been widely anthologised in publications such as New Daughters of Africa, Africa39, or the Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies. As a literary translator and activist, her interests lie in exploring linguistic justice through the use of the various Englishes and Frenches spoken in Africa. Edwige is a 2019 Miles Morland Fellow and a 2021 Writing Fellow of the Iowa International Writing Program. In 2020, she founded 1949: the library of women’s writings from Africa and the black world in Abidjan

Tinatswe Mhaka is a feminist activist, creator, and founder of Feminist Voices Zimbabwe. She has experience working in various facets of feminist practice particularly LGBTQIA movement building in Africa, VAWG Response, Storytelling, and sexual reproductive justice in Zimbabwe. Tinatswe is passionate about co-creating new feminist realities, centered on intersectionality and the emancipation of all women, non-binary and queer persons.

Luci Cavallero is a member of the Ni Una Menos Collective, where she works on the coordination of the organisational assemblies for 8 March and 3 June and on the articulation of the agenda on economic violence: particularly on the impact of both public and private indebtedness from a feminist perspective. She holds a PhD in Social Sciences from the University of Buenos Aires and is a CONICET researcher on debt and gender issues. She is co-author of “Una lectura feminista de la deuda”, “Quién le debe a quién” and “La casa como Laboratorio”, all published by Tinta Limón.

Ximena Arrieta Borja is a passionate defender of social causes and human rights. Throughout her career, Ximena has been actively involved in inspiring student movements such as 132, feminist movements and LGBTQI+ rights activism. Ximena has also explored the intersection between technology and activism, playing a key role in coordinating operations for an NGO called Wingu, which provides technology support to non-profit organisations in Mexico.

Lebohang Liepollo Pheko’s areas of research specialisation include international trade and international economics in the context of South/North relations, political economy, regional integration of Afrikan states, feminist economics, international development, international relations in relation to Afrikan positionality, migration and globalisation, citizenship and identity. Liepollo is the Senior Research Fellow at feminist activist and advocacy think tank – Trade Collective, has taught International Trade , Afrikan Feminist Theory , International Development, Political Economy, Political theory and Race and Decolonial studies across the world.

Mena Souilem is a feminist from Western Sahara and Co-Founder of Feminist Consciousness نحو وعي نسوي. Her feminist activism is strongly based on intersectional solidarity and grassroots movements. She believes in equality and social Justice. She is passionate about feminist and queer knowledge production and it’s her main focus of work. The majority of her time is spent volunteering with feminist organisations and initiatives to help broader the social and feminist movements in her region.

Beena J Pallical is an Intersectional Feminist and Dalit women Leader and currently General Secretary, National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights (NCDHR)-DAAA. Her main focus continues to be on Economic Justice and specifically looking at Gender Equity. She also works around targeted budgets, fiscal accountability and governance. She has worked with all the various mechanisms and has represented the Dalit Women’s rights at the UN platforms. She has contributed to the overall work of Dalit Rights in NCDHR and participated in several national and international seminars raising the voice of Dalits and Adivasis and advocating stronger policy measures with effective implementation.

Lucia D. Pascale Solages is a grassroots feminist organiser passionate about improving the lives of Haitian Women and Girls. She is a founding member and general coordinator of the feminist organisation NÈGÈS MAWON – one of Haiti’s most active feminist organisations fighting for the rights of women and girls. In addition, she is a human rights advocate and embraces all progressive social justice and human rights issues in Haiti, such as LGBT rights, abortion rights, good governance, etc. She co-founded in 2018, the collective of committed citizens NOU PAP DÒMI for social justice, against corruption and impunity from the mobilisation movement against corruption “PETROCARIBECHALLENGE” in Haiti. She works now for a non-profit organisation in New York, where she engages, provide community- based support and linkage to Haitian migrants.

Diyana Yahaya is a feminist activist, researcher, trainer and mobiliser based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She is passionate in undertaking research and analysis, carrying out advocacy on laws and policies, and strengthening movements’ capacity to understand, challenge and develop alternatives to the traditional economic and development model and for human rights. In her work around a range of macroeconomic policies and issues, she has particularly focused on advancing feminist analysis and alternatives to the current trade, finance and investment rules, along with the neoliberal regime of deregulation, re-regulation, privatisation and liberalisation.