Ignacia Simonetti is a Fulbright Scholar and MSc in Global Affairs from New York University. She has collaborated on different equality, diversity, and inclusion projects, such as launching and implementing Chile’s Gender Parity Task Force in partnership with IADB and the WEF. As the Head of the Gender Department at Chile´s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, she was the Lead Coordinator for the “Women, SMEs and Inclusive Growth” priority for APEC Chile 2019 and was responsible for the approval of important projects such as La Serena Roadmap for Women and Inclusive Growth and for Chile’s Gender and Trade Chapters. She previously served as the Research Coordinator at the Strategic Observatory of the Pacific Alliance and as the International Affairs Coordinator at ComunidadMujer. She has interned at UN Women’s headquarters in New York and worked as a consultant for Kofi Annan Institute for Conflict Transformation.

Maddie is in her third year interning for Women Across Frontiers. She is a senior at The Dalton School in Manhattan and will be attending Grinnell College in the fall. She is unsure what she wants in the future, but has strong interests in ethics, feminism, and writing, and has plans to continue to explore these interests in the future.

He is the winner of a 2015 Project Censored Award, known as the ‘Alternative Pulitzer Prize’, for Outstanding Investigative Journalism for his Guardian work, and was twice selected in the Evening Standard’s ‘Power 1,000’ most globally influential Londoners, in 2014 and 2015.

Nafeez has also written and reported for The Independent, Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Scotsman, Foreign Policy, The Atlantic, Quartz, Prospect, New Statesman, Le Monde diplomatique, New Internationalist, Counterpunch, Truthout, among others. He is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Faculty of Science and Technology at Anglia Ruskin University, where he is researching the link between global systemic crises and civil unrest for Springer Energy Briefs.

Nafeez is the author of A User’s Guide to the Crisis of Civilization: And How to Save It (2010), and the scifi thriller novel ZERO POINT, among other books. His work on the root causes and covert operations linked to international terrorism officially contributed to the 9/11 Commission and the 7/7 Coroner’s Inquest.

She was born in Port Washington, Wisconsin, to a family of Mexican migrant workers. María considers the border town of Laredo, Texas, her beloved hometown. She lives in Washington D.C. and is the proud mother of two black cats.

Social Psychologist, worked as a Project Consultant in the Economic Commission of Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) United Nations, and recently spoke in the Research Committees session “Creating Safety for Youth in a Gendered World” at the 3rd ISA Forum in Vienna, Austria, as an invited researcher. She has also worked as Project Coordinator at UNESCO, UNDP and UN Women, in areas such as the strengthening of capabilities and mechanisms for advocacy of civil society organizations in legislative processes and in the formulation of public policies promoting gender equality and the empowerment of women.

Barbara Barnett is the Lee Young Professor of Journalism at the University of Kansas. A former journalist, she worked as a reporter and editorial writer at The Charlotte News and The Charlotte Observer. She later worked as a health communicator in Africa, Latin America, and Asia. She has a master’s degree from Duke University and a doctoral degree from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Her research and writing focuses on gender, media and violence, and she has written articles about sex trafficking and sexual assault. She is the author of Motherhood in the Media: Infanticide, Journalism, and the Digital Age.