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Cate Scannapieco
Co-founder of Rete Lettera Ashe/her
Cate is an Italian aspec activist and co-founder of the advocacy group “Rete Lettera A”. Her main interests are aspec activism, trans rights, reproductive rights, education and grassroot mapping. She proudly represents Rete Lettera A in the International Asexuality Day network.
She believes there can be no queer liberation without aspec activism and perspectives. In 2024 she started an Italian and international, non-anglocentric aspec history archive called “Archivi.A”.
Cate has also a degree in Classical Philology and is currently an ancient Greek and Latin teacher.
Gwen - Thanh Huyen
Member at Asexual in Vietnamshe/they
Gwen - Thanh Huyen is a young and passionate Vietnamese activist for the Asexual community. Currently, she is part of Asexual in Vietnam - a local CBO with ten years of history, aiming to improve social awareness of Asexuality and create safe spaces for Ace community.
While her primary focus is social advocacy, Huyen is eager for the future journey to explore human rights advocacy for the Asexual community worldwide, by engaging in international mechanisms to open more discussion on the future of Aspec activism.
Anjeelee Kaur Beegun
Programmes Officer at Égidesshe/her
Anjeelee Kaur Beegun is a Mauritian LGBTQIA+ activist. She has a background in Public Law, which she has also taught for three years. She has been involved in the non-profit sector for almost eight years now and has served in various capacities in several organisations. Since 2018, she has been working closely on SOGIESC locally and internationally. She has previously served as the Executive Director of Mauritian LGBT organisation, Collectif Arc-En-Ciel. She has also worked as a consultant with several organisations locally and internationally. She is also the co-founder of RekonekT, a Mauritius based NGO working with LGBTQIA+ persons. She is currently working as a programmes officer with Égides. She is a 2020 Human Rights Campaign Global Advocacy Innovator Alumni as well as a 2022 Mandela Washington Fellow For Young African Leaders Initiative.
Manita Newa Khadgi
Founder of Nepali Aspecsthey/she
Dr. Manita Newa Khadgi is a medical doctor, a psychological counselor, an artist, an activist, a feminist and an outspoken anti speciesist working around to uproot notions of ableism. They are working at the intersection of decolonised indigenous neuro-affirming care and community building as a movement in queer and neurodivergent spaces.
Founder of the first and only collective of Nepali Asexuals and Aromantics known as "Nepali Aspecs" and Meraki Chhen a space aimed at furthering discussions and expressions surrounding queerness, adult neurodivergence, asexuality and aromanticism, care and mental health, and embodied indigenous knowledge and practices.