MEET OUR TEAM
We’re a team made up of community activists, researchers, artists and elected representatives - all working towards building a Europe and world that is equitable, just and sustainable.
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Rokhaya Diallo
ROKHAYA DIALLO is a French journalist, writer and award winning filmmaker, widely recognized for her work in favor of racial, gender and religious equality. Her tireless activism has made her "one of France's most prominent anti-racism activist" according to the New York Times.
Dr. Malcom Ferdinand
Malcom Ferdinand is an environmental engineer from University College London and doctor in political philosophy from Université Paris Diderot. He is now a researcher at the CNRS (IRISSO/University Paris Dauphine). At the crossroad of political philosophy, postcolonial theory and political ecology, his research focuses on the Black Atlantic and particularly the Caribbean. He explores the relations between current ecological crises and the colonial history of modernity. He recently published a book based on his PhD dissertation entitled Une écologie décoloniale: penser l'écologie depuis le monde caribéen soon to be translated in English.
Rita Bosaho MP
Rita Gertrudis Bosaho Gori (born 21 May 1965) is an Equatorial Guinean-Spanish politician and activist member of Podemos. She is currently serving as Director-General for Equality of Treatment and Ethnic-racial Diversity in the Spanish Ministry of Equality since 2020. She was a member of the 11th and 12th terms of the Congress of Deputies.
Zamzam Ibrahim
Zamzam Ibrahim, Vice President of European students Union, a co-founder of Students Organising for Sustainability UK, and Vice Chair Muslim Leadership foundation and the former National President of the National Union of Students, UK.
She’s finance graduate from the University of Salford, Manchester. She’s been a student representative for almost a decade leading work on a fully funded and just education system to tackle societal injustices, leading campaigns from; climate justice to tackling racial injustice. Her main focus lies on internationalisation and mobility, public responsibility and financing of higher education as well as organisational development and finances within the European Students’ Union.
Mohammed Chahim MEP
Dr. Mohammed Chahim is a Member of the European Parliament for the Dutch social democrats. He is a member of the committee on environment, health and food safety and the committee on industry research and energy.
Previously he worked as a researcher in environmental economics and energy transition at the Dutch organization for applied scientific research (TNO). He holds a master’s degree in econometrics and operations research, and a research master in microeconomics. Afterwards he completed his PhD in Operations Research at Tilburg University in 2013.
Dr. Radostina Primova
Dr. Radostina Primova is an international climate and sustainability expert with 11 years of experience in the fields of EU affairs, international development and EU climate diplomacy. She is currently based at the Center for the Study of Democracy in Sofia where she is leading projects on green recovery, energy transition and international climate policies. Prior to this, she was the Head of the Energy and Climate Programme of the Brussels office of the Heinrich-Böll-Foundation European Union, where she was directing the project and advocacy activities on climate, energy and agricultural polices and providing advice for European and international delegations on these topics. Dr. Primova has been leading key projects of the Foundation, including the Energy Atlas, the Atlas of Environmental Migration, the Energy Transition Blog and the interdisciplinary project “From Paris to Sustainable Development” that focused on the role of human rights and gender equality in EU external climate actions.
Dr. Primova has also also taken part in the UNFCCC climate negotiations as an observer since 2015 and has monitored the role of EU climate diplomacy. She has also been actively involved in the work of the Brussels Dialogue on Climate Diplomacy (BDCD) – an informal network for the exchange of information and the promotion of cooperation among European institutions, international organisations, NGOs and think-tanks active in the nexus between climate change and international, national, human and environmental security.
Mikaela Loach
Mikaela Loach is a climate justice activist, co-host of The Yikes Podcast, writer and 4th year medical student based in Edinburgh. In 2020, Forbes, Global Citizen and BBC Woman's Hour named Mikaela as one of the most influential women in the UK climate movement. Her work focuses on making the climate movement more inclusive and focusing on the intersections of the climate crisis with oppressive systems such as white supremacy and migrant injustices. Her activism has been featured in the BBC, Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Elle and VICE. She uses her Instagram platform and The Yikes Podcast to communicate the need for system change, climate justice and dismantling white supremacy.
Pierrette Herzberger-Fofana MEP
Dr. Pierrette Herzberger-Fofana was elected to the European Parliament on 26 May 2019 as a candidate of Bündnis 90/Die Grünen and has since been campaigning for a democratic, humane Europe as an MEP. She is First Vice-Chair of the Committee on Development (DEVE) and the Delegation for Relations with the Pan-African Parliament (DPAP), Co-President of the European Parliament's Anti-Racism and Diversity Intergroup (ARDI) and a member of the Delegation to the Cariforum-EU Parliamentary Committee (DCAR), where 'Cariforum' stands for the countries of the Caribbean region.
Yasmine Ouirhrane
Yasmine is the founder of We Belong, a platform and podcast that amplifies the voice of the New Daughters of Europe. She is also an advocate for Social and Gender Justice in Europe and she was recognised Young European of the Year 2019 by the Schwarzkopf Foundation, EDD Young Leader by the European Commission and Women Deliver Young Leader. She is also an appointed expert on Peace & Security by the European Union and the African Union and a member of the Gender Innovation Agora at UN Women.
Dr Nelly Ben-Hayoun
Nelly Ben Hayoun- Stépanian Ph.D is an award-winning designer of experiences, a French filmmaker who creates multidimensional experiential projects at the intersection of film, science, tech, politics and Design. Wired awarded her their inaugural Innovation Fellowship in 2014, and Icon magazine recognized her as one of the top 50 designers ‘shaping the future’. She is the founder and director of the International Space Orchestra, the world’s first orchestra of NASA space scientists and astronauts. She also founded the tuition free university- University of the Underground- which includes board members and activists like Prof Noam Chomsky and Prof. Arjun Appadurai.
Malcolm Momodou-Jallow MP
Momodou Malcolm Jallow is currently a member of the Swedish parliament and the committee of Civil affairs. As a member of the Council of Europe’s parliamentary assembly, Mr Jallow is currently the general rapporteur for combating racism and intolerance in Europe.
Mr Jallow was awarded by the civil rights leader Rev Jesse Jackson with the 2018 Global Leadership Award for his tireless efforts and outstanding leadership in advocating for a Just and diverse global society. He has also led a landmark campaign against afrophobia, hate speech and hate crimes against People of African Descent & Black Europeans (PAD & BE) leading to several successful court cases.
Shada Islam
Shada Islam is an influential Brussels-based specialist on European Union affairs who works independently as a commentator, advisor, analyst and strategist on Europe, Asia, Africa, Geopolitics, Trade, Migration, Inclusion, Diversity and Women’s Empowerment. She runs her own Brussels-based global strategy and advisory media company, New Horizons Project (NHP).
Zarah Sultana MP
Zarah Sultana is the Labour Member of Parliament for Coventry South. Elected in 2019, Zarah grew up in the West Midlands, where her grandfather had moved to from Kashmir in the 1960s. During her time studying at the University of Birmingham, Zarah became active in campaigns against racism, tuition fees and government cuts. Prior to being elected, Zarah had worked in retail and was a community organiser in the West Midlands.
In Coventry South and Parliament, Zarah campaigns for justice and equality for all.
Megha Sood
Megha Agrawal Sood believes in the power of sharing stories and building unexpected collaborations to inspire action. She is the Head of The Climate Story Unit at Doc Society, a new initiative dedicated to supporting transformative storytelling to advance a climate just future. Megha’s previous work experience includes leading impact programming at the film company, Exposure Labs, and helping purpose-driven organizations grow at the innovation firm, IDEO. She is a graduate of Northwestern University, and is based in Boulder, Colorado.
Kwanza Musi Dos Santos
Kwanza Musi Dos Santos is an italian-afrobrazilian activist raised in Rome, co-founder of the cultural association QuestaèRoma that since 2013 fights to erase any form of discrimination through culture and art. She holds a bachelor degree in political science and international relations at Roma Tre University, and she is currently completing a master in management of cultural diversity at Tilburg University in the Netherlands. She organizes conferences and wokshops on diversity and inclusion with a special focus on racialized people and intersectionality, and she collaborates as a consultant for enterprises and interracial adoptions organizations. Lately, she has taught about Black Italy at the previous three editions of the Black Europe Summer School in Amsterdam and she was featured on Vice News Documentary about “Black Lives Matter in Italy”.
Tonny Nowshin
Tonny Nowshin is a Degrowth and Climate Justice activist. She is a prominent figure in the Degrowth and German climate movement. While writing her master thesis in International and development economics in 2017, Tonny read the IPCC reports in-depth for the first time. Realizing the urgency of climate change mitigation, she became active in the Degrowth and climate movement.
Tonny grew up in Dhaka Bangladesh and was an activist for social causes from early high-school days. She protested the privatization of education and health sector rolled out in Bangladesh as part of the World Bank’s structural adjustment program. Later in life, Tonny studied economics in her lifelong search to understand societies better and be able to have a positive impact on them. She started her career in the international development sector with the world’s largest non-profit BRAC. She has worked with well-known NGOs like ActionAid and Urgewald. At the moment, Tonny is working with the international climate movement-building NGO, 350.org.
In a perfect world, we would find Tonny reading books with three cats, all day.
Dr Joshua Forstenzer
Joshua Forstenzer is a Lecturer in Philosophy and the Co-Director of the Centre for Engaged Philosophy at the University of Sheffield. Before that he was the Vice-Chancellor's Fellow for the Public Benefit of Higher Education also at Sheffield, as well as a Democracy Visiting Fellow at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and a Visiting Fellow at Tufts University's Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life. His first monograph Deweyan Experimentalism and the Problem of Method in Political Philosophy was published by Routledge in 2019. Prior to his academic career, he led two educational outreach programmes and was the President of the Students’ Union at the University of Sheffield.
Hassun El-Zafar
Hassun El-Zafar is an award-winning creative director and producer with a passion in bringing to life boundary pushing stories & engagement programmes for under-represented audiences. He specializes in community engagement, science-art fusion & decolonial narratives.