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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.

CHRISTINE N. MARTINEZ
Editor
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MADDIE HARTOG
Intern
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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.
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IVET GONZALEZ
Havana, Cuba
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SAFIYE EMBEL
Baghdad, Iraq
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BELINDA COOPER
New York, USA
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MAUREEN GERAWA
Papua, New Guinea
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JOANNE PILGRIM
New York, USA
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LAURA RODRIGUEZ CLAROS
Buenos Aires, Argentina
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OLIVIA ALABASTER
Beirut, Lebanon
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LINDA FORSELL
Stockholm, Sweden
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MAAB BLEIBEL
Baghdad, Iraq
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CLARISSA SOSIN
New York, USA
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TANIA MENAI
New York, USA
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GAYATRI PARAMESWARAN
Berlin, Germany
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COLETTE MAZZUCELLI
New York, USA
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ANNA VISVIZI
Athens, Greece
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GRAHAM LAND
Stockholm, Sweden
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AMANDA PESKIN
Kathmandu, Nepal
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AYESHA SHAKYA
Kathmandu, Nepal
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KARA SANTOS
Manila, Phillipines
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PRAGYAA RAI
Kathmandu, Nepal
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SIAN COWMAN
Cochabamba, Bolivia
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NAFEEZ AHMED
London, UK
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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.

FIONA HARVEY
London, UK
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MALAIKA ELIAS
Washington DC, USA
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CLARE BUSCH
New York, USA
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VIERKA VASQUEZ
New York, USA
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DAKSHAYANI ATHALYE
Pune, India
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ELLIOT SMITH
Accra, Ghana
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YARA NAHLE
Beirut, Lebanon
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ROTHNA BEGUM
London, UK
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NICOLE HASHMAN
Sydney, Australia
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FRANCISCO YOFRE
Buenos Aires, Argentina
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ANA LORENA DELGADILLO
Mexico City, Mexico
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BINA EMANVEL
Berlin, Germany
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CLAIRE THOMAS
New York, USA
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MICHELLE CASTANEDA
New York, USA
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HANNAH MCNEISH
Nairobi, Kenya
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YASMIN HARIRI
Baltimore, USA
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AIHAN JAMAL
Duhok, Iraq
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ALI MOKDAD
Washington, USA
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ANNI IRISH
Brooklyn, USA
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JAMBALLY MOHAMMED
Duhok, Iraq
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MATILDA KOMMA
Sere Kunda, Gambia
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MATILDA MELKONIAN
New York, USA
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NEHA SHASTRY
New York, USA
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OLIVER GEE
Paris, France
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YOVITA IVANOVA
Lima, Peru
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PAOLO PATRUNO
Bologna, Italy
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LARA BENUSIS
New York, USA
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MARÍA R. GONZÁLEZ
Washington, USA
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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.

CAROL MATOS
Buenos Aires, Argentina
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NICK SCHONFELD
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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MAHAM JAVAID
Lahore, Pakistan
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EMILY CRAIN
Mexico City, Mexico
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LORNA TYCHOSTUP
Baghdad, Iraq
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Guest speaker and lecturer at over 100 universities and other venues, Tychostup has appeared extensively on radio, TV and in print media, including FOX, NBC, ABC affiliates and NPR. Her Iraq photos have been shown nationally and international, and branded the Americans Friends Service Committee’s Eyes Wide Open Exhibit on the Human Cost of War. Her Iraq work is the focus of Trish Dalton’s documentary film, Bordering on Treason, which premiered at DOC NYC 2013 and was awarded ‘Best Short Documentary 2013’ at the Big Apple Film Festival.

AYAKO MIE
Tokyo, Japan
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KEVIN BAIRD
Jakarta, Indonesia
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DOMINIC KIRUI
Nairobi, Kenya
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SHARON ATTIA
New York, USA
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RACHEL AITKEN
Sydney, Australia
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LIZA NUGENT
New York, USA
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TAMARA DROVE
Santiago, Chile
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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.

VANESSA VELTGENS
Ericeira, Portugal
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Vanessa Veltgens is currently enrolled in a Master’s program in Middle Eastern Studies at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies in Lund, Sweden. She gained a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations at the University College Maastricht, Netherlands. She gained work experience through internships in Berlin, Ramallah and Beirut. Vanessa is currently living in Ericeira, Portugal, where she completes her master thesis on the topic of female political participation opportunities in Palestine.

KATHRYN TRAVERS
Montreal, Canada
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KALPANA VISWANATH
New Delhi, India
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Kalpana Viswanath is a researcher who has been working on issues of urban and women’s safety and for over 20 years. She is the co-founder of Safetipin, a mobile app developed to support community and women’s safety. She has worked as a consultant with UN Women and UN Habitat and has also provided technical support to safe city for women programs in Delhi, Cambodia, Pakistan, Indonesia, Vietnam, Kerala, Mumbai and Kolkata. She is a member of the Advisory Group on Gender Issues for UN Habitat, Board member of the International Centre for the Prevention of Crime (ICPC), and the Chairperson of Jagori. She has published widely in magazines and journals and has co-edited a book on Building Gender Inclusive Cities.

JESÚS CASADO
New York, USA
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SUSANNAH BIRKWOOD
London, UK
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BARBARA BARNETT
Texas, USA
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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.

ALEXANDRA RODRÍGUEZ DUEÑAS
Quito, Ecuador
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SARA ORTIZ ESCALANTE
Barcelona, Spain