Bruna Martinez is a Brazilian feminist, international development practitioner, and advocate. A Women Deliver Young Leader Alum and an OYW delegate, she brings a decade of experience advancing gender equality and social justice, with expertise in global health policy, SRHR/HIV, and promoting access to services and funding for key populations and women’s rights organizations. As Program Manager of Walking the Talk, Bruna drives strategic coordination, mobilization, and advocacy to embed gender equality in financing decision-making spaces, influence policy, and secure sustained, equitable funding for feminist movements and women’s rights organizations. She also leads the Financing for Feminist Futures Conference; a flagship convening aimed at shaping pathways for financing gender equality and fostering coordinated strategies and synergies across movements and stakeholders. She holds a master’s degree in development studies from the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), with a specialization in women’s rights and social justice.

Jara Henar is Director of ActionAid Eastern Europe, spearheading feminist humanitarian strategies across Ukraine and neighbouring countries, with a strong focus on strengthening social movements and women’s rights organisations. With previous roles in grassroots, national, and international organisations, she has specialised in policy and advocacy on gender, migration and forced displacement, and human rights. Her work has particularly addressed the analysis and practices of racist and patriarchal migratory policies in Europe. Jara has been following and contributing to debates on Spain’s Feminist Foreign Policy since 2019. She also brings an academic background in gender studies and international relations, which grounds her practice in feminist approaches to advocacy and humanitarian action.

Yasmina Benslimane is a multi-award-winning feminist activist, consultant, and coach dedicated to advancing gender equality.  As the founder of Politics4Her, the largest intersectional feminist youth-led organization, Climate Sirens, a climate tech social enterprise, Yasmina leads efforts to amplify women’s voices.

Chido Nyaruwata is a feminist researcher, photographer, and community builder whose work brings together questions of gender, youth participation, climate, and environmental justice in Zimbabwe. Through both research and visual storytelling, she explores how girls, women and youth are shaping responses to the climate crisis. She is also the founder of the Flames and Lilies Climate Initiative, a youth-led organisation that strengthens climate literacy, leadership, and confidence among girls and young women.

Sapphire Alexander is a strident feminist and youth advocate who is passionate about gender,
education and climate justice. She is the coordinator of Transform Education, a network of
young feminist educators hosted by the United Nations’ Girls’ Education Initiative (UNGEI), the
creator of Caribbean Feminist, a digital education and advocacy platform for Caribbean and
diaspora youth, a Rooted Futures Lab Environmental Justice in Tech Fellow, and a debt justice
for girls advisor at MalalaFund.

Nisrin Elamin is a scholar and activist based in Toronto.  She is currently writing a book tentatively titled: Stratified Enclosures: Land, Capital and Empire-making in central Sudan which focuses on large-scale domestic and Gulf Arab land enclosures and community resistance to land dispossession in the Gezira region of central Sudan. In addition to scholarly articles, Nisrin has published and co-written articles for Al Jazeera, the Washington Post, Okay Africa, Hammer and Hope, Transition and The Egypt Independent. Nisrin is also a co-founding member of the Sudan Solidarity Collective which has been supporting local emergency response rooms and unions at the forefront of relief efforts in the face of a largely absent international aid community and functional state in Sudan. The collective has been doing political education and organizing around more just Canadian immigration policies.

Anisha Chugh is the Executive Director of Women’s Fund Asia (WFA), a regional fund advancing gender equality and inclusion across 22 countries in Asia. Anisha has been with WFA for over a decade, contributing significantly to its regional impact and positioning as a key feminist fund in Asia. Before WFA, she was with the Dalit Foundation, a leading human rights funder in India focused on caste equity. Anisha is actively engaged in contributing to shaping global funding for gender equality and strongly believes in strengthening a multi-sectoral approach, a truly diverse funding ecosystem to resource critical work on gender equality. As part of pursuing this mandate, Anisha is engaging in diverse spaces, representing the voice and experiences of WFA and its partners. She presently serves on the Advisory Board of the Resilience Fund for women in global value chains, and the Steering Committee of the Human Rights Funders Network (HRFN) as the co-chair, the steering board of RISE – Reimagining Industry to Support Equality. Anisha also recently joined the US board of Women Win Foundation. She previously served on the steering board of Fenomenal Funds and was one of the ambassadors of the Feminist Foreign Policy conference 2023 hosted by the government of the Netherlands.

Afro-Indigenous descent born and raised in Panama, Jovana Ríos Cisnero is the Executive Director of Women’s Link Worldwide, an intersectional feminist nonprofit organization that advances women’s rights through legal action. Since assuming her role in 2022, Jovana has spearheaded a transformative shift, embedding anti-racist, anti-colonial, and anti-ableist principles into the organization’s core. Jovana’s extensive background includes co-founding the Latin America and the Caribbean Youth Alliance, catalyzing youth-led advocacy in significant international negotiations. She has served on the Board of the Global Fund, consulted for the United Nations Population Fund, and held leadership roles in both the private sector and international NGOs. Jovana has received high-level appointments from two UN Secretary-Generals related to the Every Woman Every Child initiative and serves as a SheDecides Champion. As the former Board Chair of Fòs Feminista, she co-led its transformation into an intersectional feminist alliance. In 2022, she was named one of Forbes Centroamérica’s 100 Most Powerful Women and became a Global Fellow in the Women Leaders for the World initiative. She currently sits on the Board of the Seattle International Foundation.

Fadekemi (Kemi) Akinfaderin is a feminist thought leader with over 25 years of experience advancing sexual and reproductive justice across Africa and the Global South. She is the Chief Global Advocacy Officer at Fòs Feminista and has previously held leadership roles at the Equality Fund and PROSPERA, after beginning her career as co-founder of Education as a Vaccine in Nigeria. Kemi also serves on the boards of the Global Fund for Women and the WHO Civil Society Commission, and holds degrees from Wesleyan University and Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health.

Born in Chile, educated in the US, now splits residency between Amsterdam and SW France, Maria Bobenrieth has extensive global experience applying innovative multi-sector approaches to address business and social challenges.  As Global Director of Community Investments at Nike, Maria championed the launch of Women Win, a global multi-dimensional women’s fund committed to a future where every girl and woman exercises their rights. She has served as the organization’s Executive Director since 2010 expanding Women Win’s mission and mandate to include three robust brands, GRLS, Win-Win Strategies and Ignita, all focused on more feminist and decolonized approaches towards gender equity.