Gigi Louisa is a dynamic and progressive leader in the field of sexual health and rights in Africa. Currently, Gigi is the Programmes Officer at Jinsiangu Kenya, a Kenyan-based organization that works towards increasing safe spaces for and advancing the well-being of Intersex, Transgender and Gender non-conforming (ITGNC) people. Gigi is heavily engaged and active in LGBTQ+ rights advocacy, linking international mechanisms for human rights advocacy and implementation to national policy levels and at the grassroots level in her work as a human rights activist. With ten years of experience working in this field, in a wide capacity, she has been a key leader in the human rights movement for LGBTQ+ persons in Kenya and Africa. Gigi Louisa is an alumnus of the CREA Sexual, Gender and Rights Initiative, Human Rights Advocacy Program at Columbia University and is currently a Commonwealth Fellow at University College London on Sexuality and Gender with a focus on Public Health Care.
Anna-Maria Tesfaye is a Black Queer decolonial activist, co-founder of Queer Svit, a charity that helps Queer people and BAME affected by war in Ukraine and/or Russia's political regime. She is also a multimedia journalist and producer, and her professional interests include Human Rights, Black Culture and the Black diaspora in Eastern European countries.
Sergey Katsuba is a socio-legal scholar and PhD candidate at UCD’s Sutherland School of Law. His research focuses on political homophobia, authoritarian lawmaking, and institutional discrimination in Russia. He co-authored "Homophobic Legislative Politics in Russia and Its Consequences" with the Memorial Human Rights Centre and co-created the art project Places of Interest based on its findings. In 2025, the research project was awarded the OVD-Info prize in recognition of outstanding academic work on repression, surveillance and censorship in contemporary Russia.
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