Danny Osorio is an entrepreneur, feminist, social activist and Architect from Universidad Americana (UAM) with a Postgraduate Degree in Sustainable Architecture. She is currently living in The Netherlands with her husband and daughter, seeking asylum for political reasons and raising awareness to the human right violations her country Nicaragüa is going through. For more information on the democratic violations against Nicaragua you can contact her through her Twitter account @dannyosNL.

Julienne Weegels (Haarlem, 1987) is a Dutch academic who works as a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Latin American Research and Documentation (CEDLA) with the University of Amsterdam. She has conducted extensive research inside and around Nicaragua’s prison system, working with prisoners and former prisoners of three Nicaraguan prison facilities (2009-2016). This research focused on (former) prisoners’ experience of imprisonment and the state, of violence and ‘change of attitude’. Following the 2018 protests, she began developing a research project on (changing) practices and understandings of justice, confinement, and sovereignty in Nicaragua. She does this especially by looking at the representation, articulation and organization of different modalities of protest through nascent social movements’ and activists’ social media and new technology use.

Gabriela Orozco is a graduate psychologist from the Central American University of Nicaragua with a Master degree in Legal, Forensic and Criminal psychopathological expertise from the International University of Catalonia, Spain; a postgraduate degree in Psychotherapy and a specialty in Latin American criminal profiler of the Mexican Federation of Criminalistics and Criminology, Mexico. She has carried out consultancies on the topic of gender, prevention of gender violence and prevention against child sexual violence, in different state organizations in Nicaragua (Center for International Studies). She has volunteered and interned in both Nicaragua and Mexico (Save the Children Mexico) on issues such as Prevention against violence, school, family and social violence, with parents, teachers and children. She currently works as a therapeutic companion, social activist and support at work in Europe at SOS Nicaragua Europe and SOS Nicaragua Global.

Shucheesmita Simonti completed an MA in Development Studies with at Major in Human Rights, Gender and Conflict Studies: Social Justice Perspectives at the International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam. She is the project officer of the Bangladesh Workgroup at the Hague Peace Project. Her passion includes migration and gender, peace-building, inter-faith dialogues, women’s empowerment and human rights. She is one of the Women Deliver Young Leaders (2018).She was a participant of the Young Feminist Summer Camp organized by the European Women’s Lobby. She is also working as editor of the English website of the Women Chapter. In the past, she has researched gender-based violence experienced by Rohingya refugee women.

Imtiaz Shams is a tech entrepreneur and human rights activist who has used his experience to help apostates who suffer when they leave conservative religions. In 2012, he began creating ‘underground railroad’ networks for former muslims around the world. In 2015, he set-up Faith to Faithless, an organisation working to reduce the stigma faced by ‘apostates’ of all religions. He has featured on the BBC, Vice, the Guardian, and the Times. His charity programme has helped thousands find a place in a world that often dehumanises the non-religious. In 2019 he set up the charity Think School, creating education videos in languages like English, Bangla, Arabic, Hindi on topics like science, history and human rights.

Supriti Dhar is a journalist and women rights activist from Bangladesh. After completion of her master’s in international journalism in former Soviet Union, went back to her country and started her career in media. Almost 21 years she worked in the different media houses. As a woman journalist she had to fight against all kind of discrimination and always felt the need of a women-led platform. In 2013, she founded the blog Women Chapter, www.wo­menchapter.com to challenge the patriarchal system and societal taboos. Women Chapter is the first ever online platform for women writers in Bangladesh. Within a very short period, it emerged as a progressive platform with hundred thousand of readers and she, as an Editor, received national and international awards. She was one of the pioneers of many rights’ movement in Bangladesh. When Bangladesh started killing of bloggers, freethinkers and atheists, Supriti was also a soft target of extremists’ groups for her outspoken criticism of patriarchal structures and women’s vulnerable condition in traditional South Asian society. As a result, she was bound to flee from the country. Now she is in Sweden in a two-years residency programme of ICORN (International cities of refuge network).

Tayfun has obtained a Master‘s degree in History from Leiden University. He is Program Coordinator for the Armenian-Kurdish-Turkish workgroup, a dialogue project to reduce tensions between these groups and find ways to work together more. As a historian he gives lectures and workshops on issues related to the modern history of Turkey. Furthermore, he is one of the members of the ’Nieuw Amsterdam Raad’, an advisory collective to give progressive counsel on matters related to migration, discrimination and social cohesion. Tayfun was born in Amsterdam to a Turkish family.

Christian is the co-founder of BeAnotherLab. BeAnotherLab is an international interdisciplinary collective formed in 2012 that investigates, reproduces and communicates individual subjective experiences with a focus on generating perspective-taking toward pro-social behaviour. Their system “The Machine To Be Another” leverages techniques from VR, cognitive science, performance art and documentary to allow users to step in to the shoes of the other. They have worked in over 20 countries in a wide diversity of contexts, ranging from film festivals, art exhibitions and hackathons to psychological and neuroscientific experiments, to conflict resolution workshops in the struggle for a culture of peace. BeAnotherLab has been awarded internationally, including the European Social Innovation Competition (Brussels, 2016), Laval Virtual Award (France, 2014), the N.I.C.E Award for Innovation and Culture (Germany, 2015). Honorary Mentions include Global Pluralism Award (Canada, 2017), STARTS Prize (Austria, 2017), Ars Electronica (Austria, 2014), and FastCo Innovation by Design Award Finalist (USA, 2014).

Jiye grew up in the UNESCO-endorsed experimental town Auroville in South India. A graduate of the Society, Science and Technology Studies at Maastricht University and International Studies at Korea University, she has worked as an interpreter and translator for South Korean tech giant NAVER, Gangnam Style producer YG Entertainment, and environmentalist/photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand’s projects “7 Billion Others” and “Home”. In her capacity as a media consultant, she has worked with Aftenposten, ARTE, BBC, Korea Exposé and Marie Claire. As Strategic Advisor for North Korea at HRF, Jiye manages the Flash Drives for Freedom program, and works with the North Korean activist community to make their voices be heard internationally.

David Losada has been Senior Developer Operations Engineer at Ushahidi for over 5 years. During this time he has participated in the implementation of Ushahidi’s software for several initiatives across the globe. David enjoys architecting systems and working with the communities around Ushahidi’s open source projects.

Glacier Kwong is a Hong Kong and a digital rights activist, currently pursuing her LLM at the University of Hamburg in Germany. Her research focuses on digital rights, data protection and digital ethics in Hong Kong and China. She completed her undergraduate at the University of Hong Kong, during which she led the campaign and lobbying work against the copyright amendment bill which was considered as an infringement of freedom of speech online. She also actively participated in the Umbrella Movement in 2014 and filmed a video that reaches more than 1 million people worldwide talking about the situations in HK. Since then, she has been an active political activist in Hong Kong and has written in press and media commenting on the political and digital rights issues in Hong Kong.

Kenman has more than 10 years of design and implement security sensitive distribution system. He is a native Hongkongese and is now working at Amsterdam.

Mr. Sar Mory is a co-founder and Vice-President of Cambodian Youth Network (CYN). He has been working for CYN more than 8 years, with a focus on youth capacity development and empowerment, youth participation and youth’s campaign relevant to human rights and environmental issues. He also is a human rights educator, provides various training on human rights and environmental rights, community organizing and advocacy skills, and legal awareness to university student, rural and indigenous youth and community who are affected from the unsustainable development projects such as hydropower dam development and economics land concession and deforestation. He also has volunteered with civil society organization and human rights groups in Cambodia to organize several collective advocacy campaigns to promote freedom of association and expression, and for democracy development in the country. Mr. Sar Mory holds a bachelor’s degree in Law from Royal University of Law and Economics (RULE) and he also earned a master degree in International Human Rights Laws at Pannasastra University of Cambodia (PUC).

In Kimsor’s life, she has seen the drastic changes her country has gone through. She has seen her country subjugate itself to foreign companies to take our natural resources and land. With plentiful minerals, large supply of water – my country has conceded to outsiders and enforced unjust land evictions upon many Cambodians. Kimsor, herself was one of them. With no power to fight against this, she was forced to leave her university. For nearly 3 years since her eviction – she dropped out of her university, because there was no possibility to continue and she was jobless and without a home. However, Kimsor found her purpose. She decided to do societal work; to educate people about their rights, why justice should be sought out, and why their land – the land of Cambodia, is important.

Chale Guadamuz is an environmental and social activist that works together with SOSNICARAGUA in the democratization process of Nicaragua. Water conservation is a cause near to his heart, for which he advocated and strongly defended in Nicaragua. Formerly involved mainly in environmental research at Centro de Entendimiento con la Naturaleza (CEN).he is now working on a more social context as Program Manager of the Nicaraguan workgroup at The Hague Peace Projects.