Samantha Ainembabazi
Samantha Ainembabazi (she/her) is a poet, spoken-word artist, and curator. She began writing poetry at eight years old, when her family went through a traumatic experience and she learned to find solace in words. Her poetry gradually evolved from a form of escape from trauma to exploring body positivity, and she launched an art-based movement to encourage women to love their bodies.
Albena Baeva
Albena Baeva (she/her) is at the forefront of interactive art in Bulgaria. She works with artificial intelligence (AI), physical computing, creative coding, and augmented reality, pushing for a feminist discourse in tech-art (art that intertwines with technological innovation) and how AI impacts climate change.
Loretta J. Ross
Loretta J. Ross joined the women’s movement in 1978 by working at the first rape crisis center in the United States and learned about women’s human rights, reproductive justice, white supremacy, and women of color organizing. Co-founder of SisterSong, she currently speaks, trains, consults, and lectures on many issues including Reproductive Justice, Appropriate Whiteness, Human Rights, Violence Against Women, and Calling in the Calling Out Culture.
Cecilia Palmeiro
Cecilia Palmeiro (she/her) is one of the founders of the transformative Latin American feminist movement Ni Una Menos, or “Not One Woman Less,” which organizes to end femicide and gender-based violence. The Ni Una Menos collective has been supported by Global Fund for Women since 2017. She is also a writer, literary critic, performer, feminist activist, and queer feminist theorist.
Merlina Anunnaki
Merlina Anunnaki (she/her) is a feminist graphic artist from Bolivia, devoted to illustration, screen printing, and woodcutting. She is a self-taught artist whose works are visual, political manifestos about the struggle for autonomous bodies and territories.
Shika
Shika/Shieko Reto (she/her) is a visual artist from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, whose work features trans women’s experiences from Malaysia, LGBTQIA+ rights, environmental concerns, and human rights issues.
Jono Lena
Jono Lena (she/they) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Salvador, Brazil. Her art revolves around gender, identity, ancestrality, and race in the face of white, heterocispatriarchal systems of oppression. Created from the center of what she calls the crossroads of sound, imagery, word, and body, her experimentation aims to reject the victimhood imposed upon Black, trans, queer, and gender non-conforming corporalities.
Crispine Ngena
As a feminist and environmental activist in Africa, Crispine Ngena (She/Her)works with women, young girls, and indigenous communities to build egalitarian communities for a better future, challenge existing harmful cultural norms, and practices and replacing them with new ones for change. Her simple ask? Close the sustainable development gap.
Winnet Shamuyarira
Winnet (She/Her) is a Zimbabwean feminist activist whose work focuses on women’s bodily autonomy and interrogating power and patriarchy’s impact on women’s sexual and reproductive rights.
Sharon Bhagwan Rolls
As a Pacific Island feminist, Sharon Bhagwan Rolls (She/Her) stands out. She works at the intersections of development and humanitarian spaces. She has committed her life to bringing more women of all backgrounds to climate negotiations.
