Boikanyo Modungwa

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Boikanyo is a feminist Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning (MEL) practitioner from Botswana. She has spent past decade working with philanthropic institutions pursuing gender justice, having held learning roles at FRIDA | The Young Feminist Fund, Purposeful and is currently the Director of Learning at Girls First Fund. Boikanyo has also worked as an independent consultant with a number of girls and women’s funds. Using a feminist and decolonial lens, her work has ranged from contributing to projects focused on mobilising quality funding, designing and implementing learning systems and initiatives that prioritise the time, energy, perspectives, knowledge and insights of girls and young feminists, and supporting collectives/organisations to share insights and learning that they find meaningful, from their own frames of reference.

Cyann Cepero

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Cyann Cepero is a Black, queer, non-binary artist from Cuba, based in Peru. They specialize in linocut and xylography, also known as wood engraving. In addition, they are a muralist and a painter with many years of experience. They graduated from Havana’s San Alejandro Academy of Fine Arts in 2008 and their strongest creative motivations revolve around the presence and visibility of the Afro-diasporic community within their visual universe in which nature, spirituality,  ancestry, and futurism are central. They consider themselves an Afrofuturist witch artist on a mission to create and share powerful charms that remind us of the paths to true abundance. In 2021, they created Piel de Madera (@pielbycyann), a brand and creative space for learning and practicing the art of engraving through spirituality.

Diana Lorena Montaño Riasco

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Diana was born in Bogotá, and her family originates from Guapi, on the Colombian Pacific Coast. She has a bachelor’s degree in Spanish Language and Humanities and specializes in care policies from a gender perspective. She is a former Martin Luther King Junior English Program fellow. In 2004, she began her activist journey in the Afro-Colombian movement within the Collective of Afro-Colombian University Students (CEUNA).

Diana’s standpoint in life is based on collective construction from fraternity and spirituality. Hence, she is grateful for the nourishment that came from sharing reflections on the role of the force of life in the creation and disruption of the oppression of Black women within the Colectiva Matamba Acción Afrodiaspórica. She supports the “Escuela Yemayá,” an emancipatory process conducted in her city alongside the CISPAC foundation, which educates Afro-Colombian young women and children on the history of Africa and its diaspora in their country. Diana also bases her everyday existence on the presence of and communication with her ancestors. She actively engages with spiritual venues such as the “Temple of Survivors of Africa,” where she expanded her consciousness for over 15 years and is currently spiritually linked to the “New Rebirth Temple.”

Dieynaba Ndiom

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Dieynaba NDIOM, from Mauritania, is a sociologist, feminist and political activist in Mauritania. She is responsible for grants from the Pananetugri Fund. She holds a Masters in Sociology from the University of Nouakchott. She is conducting her PhD research at the GESTES laboratory at the Gaston Berger University of Saint-Louis in Senegal. For her Masters, she wanted to combine her feminist commitment with research, she decided to study issues related to reproductive health and women’s rights through my final dissertation research which focused on a vulnerable population in Mauritania, which are migrant women sex workers, highlighting their health and legal vulnerability.

She had the opportunity to form steering and reflection committees for the organization of regional feminist spaces such as “Agora”, “Institut Feministe Africaine – IFA” which are safe spaces that bring together feminists from West and Central Africa, to discuss regional issues; diverse and varied topics on women’s equality and freedom. Through her association commitments in Mauritania, she is an integral member of the ISR (Initiative for Reproductive Health) organization and the feminist collective of Mauritanian women called “Voices de Feminists”. At the regional level, she is a member of the Young Feminists Network of West Africa.

Erica Njuguna

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Erica Njuguna is a trans youth climate justice organiser based in Nairobi, Kenya. She fights alongside other youth to advocate for a Feminist, Debt Free and climate Just African future. She is the global co-coordinator of ANGRY (Alliance of non-governmental radical youth), a youth-led climate justice policy collective. She is also an organiser with Fridays for future MAPA (Most affected people & areas) & is on the steering committee of the fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty initiative.

Fatma Emam

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Fatma Emam Sakory is Nubian Egyptian feminist researcher and translator. She graduated from Cairo university, faculty of economics and political sciences in 2004. She earned her MA from Malta university and Ghent university in Human rights and democratization. She worked in various feminist NGOs. She is a member of the advisory council of the solidarity network of women living under Muslim laws. She was the founding advisor of the MENA region in FRIDA, the young feminist fund. She is proud of her work in the advisory committee of the Nubian representative in the constitutional committee, Haggag Oddoul in 2013.

Justice Shorter

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Justice Shorter is a skilled organizer/facilitator, Disability Justice amplifier and senior advisor on issues at the intersection of race, disability, gender, health, climate, and crises. She is a national expert on disability inclusive disaster protections, emergency management and humanitarian crises/conflicts.  As a curator and composer, she has orchestrated immersive training experiences for thousands of participants worldwide. As a strategist and dreamscaper, she has worked with countless organizations to meaningfully and measurably enhance their equity efforts. In 2023, Justice formed SeededGround, an agency devoted to content creation that centers people of color with disabilities. Determined to sow justice and harvest dreams, SeededGround projects are intentionally designed in ways that are imaginative and intersectional. Her work is lovingly wedded to worldbuilding our collective liberation into fruition.

Leonardo Peçanha

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Leonardo Morjan Britto Peçanha is a professor, researcher and black transfeminist of transmasculinities. He is a PhD candidate in Public Health in the Postgraduate Program in Children’s and Women’s Health at the Fernandes Figueira Institute of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (IFF/FIOCRUZ), also he has a master’s degree in Physical Activity Sciences from the Salgado de Oliveira University (PPGCAF-UNIVERSO), and is a specialist in Gender and Sexuality from the Institute of Social Medicine of UERJ (IMS/UERJ). He holds a degree in Full Teaching and a bachelor’s degree in Physical Education from the Augusto Motta University Center (UNSUAM).

He is currently a Fiscal Advisor of the Brazilian Association for Trans-Homoculture Studies (2024-2025), and a researcher at GENSEX – Center for Studies on Gender, Sexuality and Health, of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (FIOCRUZ/CNPq). He is a member of the LGBTI+ Health Working Group of the Brazilian Association for Public Health (ABRASCO). Works as a Physical Education Professional at the Identidade Outpatient Clinic at the Piquet Carneiro Polyclinic (PPC/UERJ). Coordinator of LGBTI+ Policies in Black Feminism in Sports. Has experience in the sociocultural area of ​​Physical Education with the themes: gender, sexuality, race and violence. Working mainly in studies such as: homophobic bullying, transmasculine health, black transmasculinities, corporealities, body practices and promotion of transmasculine health and trans people in sports. One of the organizers and author of the book: Transmasculinidades Negras – Narrativas plurais em primeira pessoa (2021).

Mikaelah Drullard

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Mikaelah Drullard, black travesti,  Afro-Caribbean woman and borderlander, inhabitant of the third world. Migrant and fugitive from the anti-Haitian and occupationist Dominican State and the sex-gender system. Writer, performance-artist, anti-racist thinker, Marika journalist, facilitator of organizational processes, voguera and popular educator. Black and daughter of an Afromestiza woman named “Juanita” an alpha female and a black man from Samaná. She is part of the collective AFROntera Cimarrona and founder of House of Naomi Campbells. Creator of the anti-racist podcast Café Marika y Pájaro Negro. She studied a degree in International Relations and writes for various magazines and media. She contributed to the book of poetry “Aquelarre de Negras un poemario de Negritudes insumisas”, the anthology ¡Pájaros, lesbianas y queers, a volar” by Dominican Writers and in the Fanzine “siete mil ríos nos comunican” by FRESTAS Trienal de Artes 2021.  And she is the author of the book “El Feminismo ya fue” , a text that translates into a critique of the white feminism. She has been working for 10 years in social organizations in Mexico, in the design and formulation of projects and on issues of freedom of expression and human rights defenders.

Nayeline Medina

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Medical Doctor in training and Queer Afro-feminist activist from the Dominican Republic.  Certified in ‘Health Management, Healthcare Policies and Systems, and Social Protection’ by the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO). With nearly a decade of experience in  activism, Nayeline has been deeply involved in social movements through various spaces of  resistance and political action by, for, and with the Black/Afro-descendant and Queer population  of Latin America and the Caribbean; particularly on issues related to anti-racism, gender equality,  bodily autonomy, and reproductive justice. Additionally, Nayeline is an active member of the  Network of Afro-Latin American, Afro-Caribbean and Diaspora Women (RMAAD), and co founder of the Afro-descendant Youth Network of Latin America and the Caribbean  (REDJUAFRO), where she also serves as a representative of its General Coordination committee.

Nonhlanhla Makuyana

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Nonhlanhla Makuyana is a Zimbabwean born Community Economist and a cofounder of Decolonising Economics. Their work seeks to facilitate sensuous understandings of the economy that nourish life by focusing on African and Afro-diasporic economic thought and practice.Through research, archiving, facilitation and writing, their work builds a bridge between historic and contemporary movements for economic self determination.

Po Kimani

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Po  is queer, survivor-centered, trauma-informed and an intersectional healing and environmental justice activist. Po navigates their life with spaciousness and generosity for nuance, critique and praise; Unearthing tools and pathways for the liberation of Black people everywhere.

Zeinabou Hadari

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Dr Zeinabou Hadari is a feminist from Niger trained in social history. She uses advocacy, research and education to promote social change in her own country and globally. She is the founder of the Centre Reines Daura (women’s resource center) which is aimed to empower women and girls in Niger. Dr Hadari counts over three decades of extensive professional experience spent in public service, public-private partnerships, program management, stakeholder engagement, and leadership.