Adla Shashati is the Director of the Greek Forum of Migrants and founder of Rootes: Migrants Memory Solidarity Collective. She brings extensive experience in migration, migrant communities, social inclusion, and combating racism and discrimination, with a strong track record at both national and European levels.

She has been actively involved in European networks and initiatives advancing migrants’ rights and racial justice, including serving as the Southern Europe representative at the European Network Against Racism (ENAR) in the past and currently as a member of the Steering Committee of Equinox: Racial Justice Initiative.

Adla is also a member of the Sudanese community in Greece and part of the Døcumatism collective. Through this work, she has contributed to the curation and coordination of collaborative artistic and community initiatives with migrant and refugee communities, focusing on strengthening visibility, representation, and meaningful participation.

Aleksandra Kuzmanovic is a digital diplomacy, social media and leadership communication strategist with more than a decade of experience in global health at the World Health Organization (WHO). In her current role as WHO’s Leadership and Positioning Social Media Manager, she advises Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and senior leadership on digital communication strategies that drive policy change and bridge gaps in global health dialogues. Ms Kuzmanovic led WHO’s social media response to the COVID-19 pandemic and was the lead anchor of the #AskWHO live social media podcast throughout the pandemic. Since then, she has led WHO’s partnerships with the tech industry and academia, building evidence on the importance of social media communication in ensuring access to credible, timely health information and in driving change in people’s health decision-making. She holds an MA in Standardization, Social Regulation and Sustainable Development from the University of Geneva, Switzerland, and a BE in Quality Management from the University of Belgrade, Serbia.

Anna/ Anikó Orsós is a human rights expert, ERRC Women’s Rights Officer, and Harvard FXB Fellow in the 3-year Fostering Strength: Romani Feminist Leadership for Climate Action initiative, focusing on climate justice and its impacts on Romani women. With over two decades of experience, she addresses racial, gender, and environmental discrimination across Europe, having authored landmark studies for the ERGO Network and served as an expert advisor to the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC). As the director of the Amrita OBK Association since 2003 and founder of the Roma Women's Informal Network, she bridges grassroots advocacy in with international policy empowering Romani women and youth through access to quality education, labor market inclusion, civic engagement, and Romani cultural pride.

Antonis Galanopoulos is a political researcher and project coordinator at Eteron – Institute for Research and Social Change. He holds a PhD in Political Science from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and a master’s degree in Political Theory and Philosophy from the same institution. His research focuses on political discourse analysis, psychosocial studies, democracy and the populism/anti-populism divide.

Christos Avramidis is a journalist and researcher based in Greece.

He specialises in documentary work on politics, environmental issues, and social movements, and produces content for Greek, U.S., and Italian media outlets and serves as the chief editor of Jacobin Greece.

A board member of the Journalists’ Association in Northern Greece, he is also a PhD candidate focusing on social movements and alternative media, with additional experience producing documentaries for Greek television.

Dimitra Siatitsa is an independent researcher in housing and urban studies. Her research focuses on socio-spatial inequalities, sustainable development, housing and public policies, alternative initiatives and social movements, particularly in Southern Europe. She also works with local, regional and national authorities on housing and social policies. She is a founding member of CoHab, an action-research group on collaborative and cooperative housing and member of international networks INURA and ENHR.

Dr. Elke Krasny is Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. She is an internationally lecturing scholar, curator, and feminist theorist whose research and curatorial work focuses on care, social reproduction, transnational feminist activism, and the politics of memory in contemporary art, architecture, and urban practices. In recognition of her contributions to feminist research, she was awarded the Gabriele Possanner State Prize in 2023. Her major publications include Critical Care: Architecture and Urbanism for a Broken Planet (co-edited with Angelika Fitz, MIT Press, 2019) and Curating with Care (co-edited with Lara Perry, Routledge, 2023).

Enikő Vincze currently works at the Department of European Studies, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Her research interest focused on nationalism, racism, feminism and intersectionality, socio-spatial marginalization and exclusion, uneven development, urban development, housing, real estate development. Enikő is a political activist on housing justice, involved in to the local movement Căși sociale ACUM!/ Social housing NOW, and the national coalition Blocul pentru Locuire.

Gresa Hasa is an expert on Albania and the Western Balkans, with a particular focus on the rule of law, state capture, democratic backsliding, and electoral politics. She is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Law and the Center for Southeast European Studies at the University of Graz, Austria, as well as a 2026 BiEPAG Fellow. Her current research focuses on the 2016 judicial reform in Albania and broader processes of Europeanization. In addition to her academic work, she regularly contributes political and cultural commentary to regional and international media outlets.

Ilirida Musaraj is the coordinator of the Albanian Migration Archive (Contemporary Social History Archives – ASKI), funded by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Public Humanities Initiative at Columbia University. She is a PhD candidate at the Department of Sociology, University of Athens. Her thesis concerns identity formation in the “second generation” of Albanian immigrants in Greece. She has graduated from the Department of Political Science and Public Administration and holds a Master’s degree in Political Science and Sociology. She has been active in movements for the rights of migrants and refugees. Her research interests include migration, identities, and political parties.

James Bridle is a writer, artist, carpenter and technologist. Their artworks have been commissioned by galleries and institutions and exhibited worldwide and online. Their writing has appeared in magazines and newspapers including Wired, the Atlantic, the New Statesman, the Guardian, and the Financial Times. They are the author of ‘New Dark Age’ (2018) and ‘Ways of Being’ (2022), and they wrote and presented “New Ways of Seeing” for BBC Radio 4 in 2019. Their work can be found at http://jamesbridle.com.

Jelena Vasiljević is a Senior Research Associate and Coordinator of the Laboratory for Philanthropy, Solidarity, and Care Studies at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade, where she also serves as Vice-Chair of the Governing Board. She holds a PhD in Ethnology and Anthropology from the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade. She was a Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh and a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Southeast European Studies, University of Graz.

With a background in political anthropology and citizenship studies, she has developed interdisciplinary expertise on citizenship (particularly its transformations in post-Yugoslav states), memory politics, identity narratives, as well as civic engagement and social movements in the Balkans. More recently, her research has concentrated on theories and practices of solidarity, as well as local civic engagement, with a particular focus on environmental mobilisation.

She is the author and co-author of three monographs, has published extensively in academic and professional outlets, and has worked as a consultant and researcher in numerous international projects and collaborations with civil society organisations. She is an expert member of The Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group (BiEPAG) and a member of the Transnational Board of Trustees of the European Alternatives.

Lydia is a journalist and audio producer based between Greece and the US. Her work has appeared in news outlets such as The New York Times, NPR, BBC, Al Jazeera and more. She has specifically investigated the topic of border regimes and new technologies. She is currently serving as co-editor-in-chief at the Greek investigative outlet Solomon. 

Maddalena Scotti works on migratory movements and freedom of movement, both as a militant and as a researcher. She is part of Bologna’s Municipi Sociali (Làbas, Tpo and Offside), Ya Basta Bologna and the transnational Network Against Migrant Detention, opposing CPRs (detention centers) in Italy and Albania and supporting migrants and struggles for freedom of movement. She stresses the importance of building internationalist struggles, such as the Palestinian solidarity movement. She is currently involved, as part of Municipi Sociali, in organizing the conference Europe Beyond the West (Bologna, 14th – 15th November 2026), a two-day European meeting bringing together movements and rebellious territories to confederate their struggles, knowledge, and practices, and to build together the political foundations of a Europe of liberation. Alongside the activism, she is a PhD candidate in Political Geography at the University of Bologna, where her research looks at the digitalization of EU border infrastructure and its effects on migrants’ geographies.

Maguy Ikulu is a jurist and political scientist specializing in gender equality, anti-racism, and decolonial approaches. A war refugee and genocide survivor from the DRC, she transformed her personal history into a lifelong commitment to justice and systemic change. She currently serves as Diversity and SDG Officer at UCLouvain, leading strategies for equity, inclusion, and institutional transformation.

Maria Peteinaki is a PhD student in architecture at NTUA, currently working on cities’ resilience. She is a Post-Growth Institute fellow and she is involved in different initiatives related to housing (Mahalas Metaxourgeiou, Kerameikos neighborhood assembly, Νeighborhoods for Ηousing Rights), climate justice (ACANgreece), and ecofeminism.

We, Mouries Collective, are an interdisciplinary group of female artists, researchers and therapists based in Athens, Greece. Originally gathered due to our common interests in healing and divination practices, we recently focused on developing connections with trees, plants and the diverse beings with whom we share this planet. We are now working under the theme of healing and (e)merging women’s knowledge while refining our collective processes. We engage through encounters and workshops that are multi-media, inter-sectional, inclusive, creative mixes, either intervening in public space or exploring group dynamics through the framework of care. Mouries first came together as a collective project in May of 2021. At this time we are Isabel Gutierrez Sanchez, Maria Juliana Byck, Thalia Dimitropoulou, Vasilikí Sifostratoudaki and Eliana Otta.

Moussa Sangaré is the president and coordinator of the Ivorian community in Greece. He is a board member of the Greek Refugee Forum, a support network for refugees, migrants, stateless people and asylum seekers based in Greece. He is a passionate advocate for human rights and justice and strives to make the voices of refugees and migrants heard at local, national and international levels.

Nikolaos Vrantsis is a member of the Thessaloniki Tenants’ Union. He is a human geographer and PhD candidate at the Institute for Housing and Urban Research at Uppsala University. His research examines the construction sector from a labour geography perspective, focusing on labour regimes and the production of urban space.

Oksana Forostyna (Lviv 1978), is Opinion Editor at Ukraina Moderna, publisher, and author.  She is  also a Visegrad Insight Fellow and Europe’s Futures Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) in 2022-2023. A former executive editor for Krytyka Journal, she contributes to Liberties, The European Review of Books, Krytyka, and Visegrad Insight.

Onur Akgül, a climate activist and researcher, has been working in various branches of climate, environmental, and rights areas as activist, NGO expert, and researcher for about 15 years. A volunteer of the Northern Forests Defense (Kuzey Ormanları Savunması) in Istanbul, Akgül is involved in the climate crisis and climate justice politics, grassroots movements as part of urban and environmental resistance, bicycle activism, ecological, and animal rights movements in Turkey. He has been a volunteer and activist for the Northern Forests Defense since its establishment in 2013 and is actively engaged with local movements, community organizing, and grassroots politics for ecological preservation, wildlife protection, urban resilience, coal phase-out, just transition, and climate justice. He worked with Greenpeace as a Climate and Energy Campaigner for 5 years and also worked with other prominent environmental and climate NGOs in Turkey, such as 350.org and TEMA Foundation. Writing regularly on the local and global environmental crisis and climate politics, Akgül recently co-authored (with Mine Yıldırım) a chapter on deforestation, industrial agriculture, and wildlife destruction in the age of zoonotic diseases in the book titled *Pandemic: Rethinking the World in the Age of Extinction* (Tellekt, 2020). Akgül also authored an article on just transition and its function in global and national climate policy in the book titled *Ecology: The Future of Coexistence* (Tellekt, 2022). Based in Istanbul, Akgül currently works as a Climate Change Researcher and Just Transition Lead at the Istanbul Policy Center, Sabancı University, sharing his research as academic reports with the public and relevant stakeholders.

Réka Kinga Papp is a journalist and a comedian. Born in 1985 in Nyíregyháza, Hungary, Papp is an MA in media and communications, and also in Hungarian literature and linguistics; specialized as a media researcher.

Journalist

Papp serves as editor-in-chief of the online magazine Eurozine, based in Vienna. She is the anchor of Gagarin, the Eurozine podcast, as well as her personal project the comedy podcast Professzor Paprika.

Papp formerly co-hosted the satirical political youtube-show Slejm and appeared as a regular commentator on the public affairs programmes of commercial televisions ATV and HírTV. She was a recurring author of the political weekly HVG and a founding member of the opinion site Mérce.

Comedian

She performs her stand-up special in downtown Budapest at Spinoza Theater. In her latest one woman show, Papp talks grief, tractors and dialects, all from the blended perspectives of a class shifter, a newcomer intellectual who tries to hold on to their rural roots and wits. Her first standup special, Nimand premiered in 2017 at Stúdió K Theater, and discussed parenting, divorce, dating and demographics from a feminist perspective.

Papp was a member of the Budapest Anarchist Theater, cast for years in the comic play Multiple Orgasms. She was a regular of the weekly comedy show Heti Hetes on national tv.

Communication adviser

Founder of Green Spider Media Lab, specialized in reporting on NGOs and movements as well as planning their communication strategies. Among her partners are Greenpeace Hungary, the Hungarian Association of Conscious Consumers, Humusz Alliance, and others. Served as a communications officer at the Hungarian Association of Sex Workers in 2016 and of the Roma Education Fund in 2018. Her fields of specialization are CSR, public service communication, organizational structures and crisis communication.

Media researcher

Papp was a Milena Jesenksá Fellow at the Viennese Institute for Human Sciences in 2017 where she researched the Hungarian sex market and sex workers’ social circumstances. She published an elaborate series by the title Pussy Politics on the social history of obstetrics and the free birth movement in Hungary; also wrote on the matter for Eurozine. Papp researched West German students’ movements and leftist terrorism as a junior fellow at the Hungarian Institute of Political History.

Activist

A founder of the 2006 Students’ Network movement; speaker at the free press mass protest ‘Nem tetszik a rendszer‘ in 2011 as a representative of the students. Featured at a number of rallies and other demonstrative events as a free speech, free press and feminist activist.

To protest the founding of the paramilitary far-right organization Hungarian Guard she organized and performed with the Carpathian Commando Rebel Clown Army, appeared at a number of far-right events. As an activist of Our Treasure Is The Market group she performed chanson parodies to protest the local government; the mayor sued her for defamation, yet the case was later dropped after a solidarity protest in her defense.

Artist

The scandalous chansons were featured later as well; her take on Millions, Millions, Millions Slip Away was featured in Montrouge, Paris at the Jeune Création Européanne biannual, and also at a number of European venues. She performs at rallies and social events with her protest band Véletlen Blues Band. She is the singer of the jazz-infused comic ensemble Partvis Band with her permanent partner in music, pianist Kristóf Darvas.

Papp was the art director of the play Bánk Bán: ACT in 2016, an opera project for Radialsystem, Berlin.

Srdjan Cvijic is the president of the International Advisory Board of the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy. Before joining BCSP Team, he was a Senior Policy Officer at the Europe and Eurasia Program of the Open Society Foundations. He is a member of the Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group and a Fellow of the Europe’s Futures Program of the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. Dr. Cvijic is a former high ranking Serbian diplomat, he also worked for the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe, the European Policy Centre in Brussels, as well as the NATO Parliamentary Assembly. Dr. Cvijic holds a PhD from the Department of Law of the European University Institute in Florence. He published numerous policy and academic articles and is the author of the “Democracy beyond the demos, bringing the immigrants (back) in” published in 2008. Srdjan Cvijic’s expertise lies in the foreign and security policy.

Vasiliki Polykarpou is a scholar working on political coalitions, violence, feminist and anti-racist politics.

Veronique Sehier – Planning Familial France, Member of EA Board, Member of the Group of Research on anti-Gender attacks.

Prof. Xenia Chryssochoou obtained degrees in Psychology from the University of Athens and the University Rene Descartes-Paris V (PhD 1996). She has worked at different Universities in France, Switzerland and the United Kingdom before moving in 2004 at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences where she is currently Professor of Social and Political Psychology and Director of the Social and Political Psychology lab. Her research interests concern the social psychological aspects of identity construction in liberal societies, issues of migration and multiculturalism and political participation. She has written extensively scientific papers and books and she has directed special issues and collective books on these subjects. She is a member of many international scientific societies and she has been a member of the Executive Committee and Secretary of the European Association of Social Psychology. From 2021 to 2025 she was Chair of the Scientific Council of the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (www.elidek.gr)

President of the Greek Forum of Refugees and a Bureau Member of the European Migration Forum in Brussels.

Forced to leave Afghanistan in 1997 during his final semester of medical college, Mr. Muhammadi remained in Pakistan and later Iran, where he worked to support other refugees but always with the hope of returning to Afghanistan. He finally was able to return in 2000 and continued his education and fight for democracy and women’s rights in his homeland. After being arrested by the Taliban, he escaped first to Turkey and then Greece, where he arrived in 2001 and was recognized as a political refugee. Mr. Muhammadi has actively participated in the creation of the Afghan Community in Greece, of which he was elected president from 2009 to 2013. In 2010, he helped found a refugee network, the Greek Forum of Refugees (GFR), which strives to promote cooperation between refugee communities. He was elected as President of GFR in 2013 and is active in providing everyday support for refugees, as well as working to advocate for their rights in Greece and beyond. Mr. Muhammadi is also committed to defending women’s rights and serves as an ambassador for White Ribbon, one of the world’s largest campaigns to end violence against women. In 2015, he was elected as a bureau member of the European Migration Forum in Brussels and in 2016 as a member of the National Council against Racism of the Ministry of Justice. In the same year His Idea (Refugees’ Ideas and Solution for Europe) was a winner of the 2016 Idea Challenge, through which a Network of Refugee and Migrant communities, RISE, was established. Mr. Muhammadi’ work and commitment was honored by Human Rights Watch, as recipient of «Alison Des Forges» Award for Extraordinary Activism in 2016. He currently serves on the Advisory Panel of Fundamental Rights Platform at the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights.