Nicole Froio - Brazil Nicole Froio is a Brazilian-Colombian journalist and feminist cultural critic based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Her work has been featured in international outlets including The Guardian, Xtra Magazine, The Verge, Bitch Media, Prism Reports, Dame Magazine and Yes! Magazine, among others. She writes on the intersections of gender, politics, and culture, with particular focus on the weaponization of womanhood by far-right parties, trans moral panics, and abortion misinformation. Froio is the co-founder of The Flytrap, a feminist, worker-owned, and non-hierarchical newsletter. Outside of her professional work, she enjoys dancing, sewing, crochet, and reading feminist theory.

Alifya Sohail - Pakistan Alifya Sohail reports on the machinery of power in Pakistan and those crushed beneath it. Her work traces disappearances as governance, and the women who refuse to be governed by it. She has documented the rise and persecution of the BYC from Karachi’s streets to the 74-day sit-in in Islamabad, mapping routine violence against the families left behind. Her fellowship project interrogates the patriotism in disappearance; how obfuscation has become Pakistan’s native tongue. It also follows the women who reject that syntax: building archives from wreckage and keeping a record most deny or distort.

Enas Kamal - Egypt Enas Kamal is a freelance journalist and podcaster with a strong focus on gender, civil rights, LGBTQ+ issues, digital rights, and women’s empowerment. In 2020, she won First Place in a competition organized by the Ministry of Social Solidarity in collaboration with Plan International, recognizing the best journalistic story highlighting young women’s issues. Her work and commitment have been further recognized through fellowships, including the KAICIID Fellowship in 2023 and a 2024 fellowship from ARIJ addressing digital violence against women. Additionally, she is the only Egyptian member of WIN Allies, contributing to supporting and reporting on the LGBTQ+ community.

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Fernanda Canofre - Global Voices. Fernanda Canofre is a reporter based in Southern Brazil. She is currently the Southern Cone Regional Editor and Lusophone sub-editor at Global Voices, and works as a freelancer with stories published in national and international news outlets such as Valor Econômico, Folha de S. Paulo, O Globo, Agência Pública and The Guardian. She covered developments from tragedies such as the recent floodings in the South of Brazil, dam bursts in Minas Gerais and the fire at the Kiss nightclub in Rio Grande do Sul, stories on the recent past of the military dictatorship and many others focusing on human rights. Canofre graduated in Social Communications - Journalism (2009) and has a M.A. in History -- Thoughts and Cultures, from the University of Coimbra (2012). She was born in Passo Fundo, Rio Grande do Sul.

Hadia Akhtar - Jamhoor Media Hadia is an economic and feminist anthropologist of rural Pakistan. Her research is on migration, the family and agrarian change in Khyber Pukhtunkhwa. She is part of the editorial collective at Jamhoor. She is also currently a Postdoctoral Associate at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University.

Walid El Houri - Untold Mag Walid El Houri is a researcher, journalist and media specialist from Lebanon. He is Co-founder & Editor in Chief of UntoldMag.org, West Asia & North Africa Editor at Global Voices, and Senior Media & Communications Specialist at the Centre for Lebanese Studies. He holds a PhD in Media Studies from the University of Amsterdam and works at the intersection of academia, media, and advocacy, with a focus on social and political movements, and the geographies of war and violence.

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