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Viola Bianchetti
Programmes Manager at IGLYO- Welcome Plenary
- Working Together: Ground Rules and Code of Conduct
- Setting the Scene - Part 1
- Setting the Scene - Part 2
- Reimbursement Procedure
- Closing Ceremony
she/her
Viola started her journey into LGBTQI+ activism as a volunteer of the European Students' Forum, where she led a working group on combatting discrimination based on gender, gender identity and expression, and sexual orientation, as well as several projects on gender and LGBTQI+ mainstreaming. Her work also focused on youth participation, civic education and youth empowerment.
Viola is passionate about non-formal education and peer-learning. In her free time, she practices circus and acrobatic disciplines, enjoys climbing and hiking, and listens to a lot of random podcasts.
Amélie Waters
Policy and Research Officer at IGLYO- Advocacy Strategies in Different National (Legal) Contexts - Part 1
- Advocacy Strategies in Different National (Legal) Contexts - Part 2
- Education
she/they
Amélie joined IGLYO after several years of LGBTQI+ policy, research and advocacy work. She previously focused on LGBTQI+ rights advocacy and engagement with the UN human rights mechanisms through her work with REDRESS and at ILGA World. She also focused on LGBTQI+ refugee protection whilst volunteering with NGOs based in Northern France and whilst working with the KCL Research Migration Group and at the Council of Europe.
Outside of work, you can usually find Amélie outdoors, either hiking, climbing, swimming or running, or attending events and navigating queer and feminist spaces.
Ali Bodo
Programmes Officer at IGLYO- Discussing Accessibility Needs
- Definitions of Bias-Motivated Crimes
- Intersectionality - Part 2
- Community-Based Approaches to Hate Crime and Hate Speech
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Ali is a queer transfeminist activist and political scientist based in Brussels. They started their journey with IGLYO after finishing a Master in Transnational Queer Feminist Politics in London, and after 4 years working with international NGOs in the Middle East and West Africa. They designed, coordinated and delivered development/humanitarian programmes focusing on LGBTQI+ asylum seekers, refugees and migrants.
Ali is passionate about human rights, decoloniality, intersectionality, mental health and working-class issues. In their free time, they love studying queer theory and queer futurity, navigating queer spaces, being in nature and, last but not least, dismantling the patriarchy.
Jens van der Duim
Member of the Advisory Panel at IGLYO- Reflection Groups (Optional)
- Reflection Groups (Optional)
- Hate Crime and Hate Speech in Online Spaces
- Reflection Groups (Optional)
they/them
Jens is a trainee at the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture & Sciences, and a happy activist. They work hard to ensure that we always take an intersectional approach to making the world better, and that everyone gets the space to share their perspectives and experiences, and they try to hold the metaphorical door open for all.
Jens is always happy to help others find their way, or claim their rights. They want you to know you're always welcome to reach out to them!
Darius Gervinskas
Member of the Advisory Panel at IGLYO- Reflection Groups (Optional)
- Reflection Groups (Optional)
- Training and Capacity Building for Teachers
- Reflection Groups (Optional)
they/she
Darius completed her master’s degree in Human Rights at University College London. After graduation, Darius joined Diversity Role Models, a UK-based LGBTQ+ anti-bullying charity. As their Education Officer, she has delivered inclusion workshops to thousands of young people and staff members in London schools and hundreds of professionals in other settings. Currently, they are also a Junior Consultant on Gender Identity, Gender Expression, and Sex Characteristics at ILGA World, and a Research Volunteer at LGBT Foundation.
Darius has also worked as an access worker to learning disabled and/or autistic adults for four years.
Tavares Ferreira
Member of the Advisory Panel at IGLYO- Sharing Hopes, Fears and Expectations
- Speed Friending
- Reflection Groups (Optional)
- Reflection Groups (Optional)
- Reflection Groups (Optional)
they/them
Tavares is a Portuguese activist currently pursuing a master's degree in international studies, with a specific focus on trans rights in Malta. They bring extensive experience as a trainer and facilitator, having worked with various organisations, dedicated to promoting the inclusion of LGBTI young people and fostering youth participation in decision-making processes.
Tavares is also a member of Brave Movement's youth Cohort, dedicated to ending child sexual violence.Their journey in activism began as a volunteer and later evolved into roles as a board member and President of "rede ex aequo," a Portuguese LGBTI youth organisation. During their tenure, they organised training sessions, events, and facilitated intercultural exchanges. They have a hidden secret talent, juggling!
Kerem Egilmez
Member of the Advisory Panel at IGLYO- Reflection Groups (Optional)
- Reflection Groups (Optional)
- Reflection Groups (Optional)
- Youth Empowerment / Building Resilience
he/him
Kerem is a final-year psychology student with a background in mental health and human rights advocacy, policy consultancy and training sessions on social impact. In his university, he was a bridge between queer solidarity and the psychology society he chaired for a mandate. One of his favourite projects was creating a digital photography collection themed "queer expression", which he defines as "not only a poetry of love and pride but also a story of pain left behind."
Besides his passion for activism, he's also into writing, cinema and music. Basically, everything that makes the world a bit better!
Anna Daróczi
Project Manager at Phiren Amenca International Networkshe/her
Anna Daróczi is a Hungarian Romani feminist youth worker. She has been a project coordinator of the Phiren Amenca International Network for seven years where she works to empower Roma young people in civic and political participation through volunteering, advocacy, and non-formal education. She holds training events on topics related to anti-discrimination and antigypsyism, including human rights, gender equality, intersectionality, religious freedom and many more. In the past two years she has coordinated a project aiming at tackling online hate speech against Roma, Jewish, LGBTQ+ and migrant communities.
Damjan Denkovski
Deputy Executive Director of Centre for Feminist Foreign Policyhe/him
Damjan is the deputy executive director of CFFP, leading the work on Human Rights and International Development focusing on research, advocacy, and community building geared towards shifting decision-making about policies to people impacted by them with a specific emphasis on rectifying unjust hierarchies such as cis-sexism, heteronormativity, racism, colonialism, capitalism. Damjan believes that without intersectional feminism, we cannot meaningfully transform foreign policy into a system which prioritises human rights, dignity, and self-determination.
Francesco Barilà Ciocca
PhD Candidate at Paris Cité Universityhe/him
Francesco is PhD candidate at the Paris Cité University where he conducts research on the intersection between statehood and sexuality in Europe and explores the possibility of state abolitionism as a queer utopian framework. He also holds a research assistant position at the University of Verona, where he works on French and Italian anti-gender movements, and European LGBT+ policymaking.
He believes in the value of prefiguring worlds yet to come as a productive political strategy and finds unwavering refuge in literature.
Daniel Heller
Project Officer at CEJI – A Jewish Contribution to an Inclusive Europe / Facing Facts Networkhe/him
Originally from Rome, Italy. Daniel holds a Bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences with a specialisation in Political Science and a Master’s degree in Conflict and Development from Universiteit Gent, where he researched for his Master’s thesis the challenges and advantages of an intersectional-informed approach to hate crime policies. His interests include concepts of violence, racism, the political, and intersectionality.
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Maša Jerićević Šušteršič
LGBTIQ+ Legal Counselling Coordinator at Društvo kulturno, informacijsko in svetovalno središče Legebitrashe/her
Maša Jerićević Šušteršič is a lawyer and a human rights defender, currently working as a Coordinator of the LGBTIQ+ Legal Counselling in a LGBTIQ+ association Legebitra from Ljubljana, Slovenia. Nowadays she is work mostly on the projects concerning transgender and intersex human rights as well as hate crime and hate speech and projects on rainbow families’ rights, as there is still a long way to an equal reality for LGBTIQ+ individuals in Slovenia.
Sveta Sol
Marie Skłodowska Curie research fellow at INIA. Intersex: New Interdisciplinary Approaches / Universitat Autònoma de Barcelonathey/them, she/her
Svet(a) is a social psychologist and researcher with the focus on queer studies, migration, queer migration (how surprising!), and intersex studies. They are currently working as a research fellow at INIA. Intersex: New Interdisciplinary Approaches, and their personal project focuses on intersex cultural representations and subjectivities. Don’t doubt to hit her up if you want to be info-dumped about any of these issues, casually chat about surviving academia or have some (very understanding) company while staring silently into the void.
Clementine Willow Doevendans
Co-chair of the Board at European Network on Independent Living (ENIL) Youth Networktree/treeself
Clementine is a autistic and chronically ill queer woman from the Netherlands (28) who dedicated numerous years in providing education to care facilities, politics and schools, while lobbying for independent living and accessibility as well as the other systematic oppressions regarding disabled people. Clementine is an expert on ableism, sanism, healthism and audism, eugenics and disabled history and give education on these topics in various occasions. Also, tree is co-chair of the board of the ENIL Youth Network.