Authors & editors
The community of authors and editors of the Intersectional Rewrites project is made up of activists, practitioners, and academics who bring their knowledge, practice, and lived experience to reimagining a European Court of Human Rights jurisprudence that is based on key learnings of intersectionality theory and praxis.
Editors
Nani Jansen Reventlow
Nani Jansen Reventlow is an international human rights lawyer, author, and founder of Systemic Justice, an organisation that works on strategic litigation for racial, social, and economic justice. Previously, she founded the Digital Freedom Fund. She regularly writes opinion pieces and has contributed to various academic publications, including Feminist Judgments in International Law. She is the author of Radical Justice, a collection of nine essays on how to build a better world, published in Dutch in 2024 with an English edition coming in March 2026.
Nani is the initiator of the Intersectional Rewrites project.
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Eddie Bruce-Jones
Eddie Bruce-Jones is Professor and Dean of the College of Law at SOAS, University of London. He is author of ”Race in the Shadow of Law: State Violence in Contemporary Europe”. He serves as a trustee of the Institute of Race Relations (London) and Advisory Board member of European Law Open.
Lyn Tjon Soei Len
Lyn Tjon Soei Len is an Associate Professor at The Ohio State University in the Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies and she is the chair of the board of Bureau Clara Wichmann, a feminist strategic litigation organization in the Netherlands.
Adam Weiss
Adam is the Chief Programmes and Impact Officer at ClientEarth, where he was previously Director of Programmes for Europe and Head of Ocean, Plastics and Chemicals. Adam previously managed the legal practice at two NGOs: the European Roma Rights Centre and, before that, the AIRE Centre (Advice on Individual Rights in Europe). He defended victims of human rights violations throughout Europe, particularly migrants and ethnic minorities including before the European Court of Human Rights, UN treaty bodies, and national courts.
Joey Koks
Dr Joey Kok is a South African born language professional living in Berlin, Germany. With extensive experience in the field of human rights, she specialises in working with and editing African writers in Europe, authors belonging to minority and marginalised groups, and those writing in another language than their native tongue.
Authors
Arpi Avetisyan
Arpi Avetisyan is an international human rights lawyer with over 20 years of experience in research, advocacy, capacity development and strategic litigation before the European Court of Human Rights, the European Court of Justice and UN human rights treaty bodies. She provides strategic legal advice to lawyers, NGOs and governmental agencies in Council of Europe member states.
Elif Ege
Elif Ege is a volunteer of Mor Çatı and works as the program coordinator. She has a PhD degree in Gender Studies. Her work in Mor Çatı focuses on monitoring the implementation of the laws and contributing to the international monitoring reports, submitted to the Committee of Ministers and CEDAW. She is the Turkey delegate of the WAVE Network and European Women’s Lobby Observatory Group.
Irmina Kotiuk
Irmina Kotiuk, a human rights lawyer, specialises in women’s rights, migration, discrimination, and the issues of environmental degradation and climate change. She has extensive experience in her field, having litigated landmark cases and worked as a lawyer at the European Court of Human Rights and later at ClientEarth. Notably, she has co-authored an article examining the right to a healthy environment within the jurisprudence of the ECtHR.
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Jonathan Ward
Dr Jonathan Ward is a Lecturer in Race and Diversity Studies at King’s College London, in the Department of Culture, Media & Creative Industries. His research is generally interested in somatic disciplinarity and representations of identity in visual, literary, and popular culture. He is the founder of The Abolitionist Curriculum.
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Kat Zhou
Kat Zhou is the creator of the project <Design Ethically>, which started out as a framework for applying ethics to the design process and has now grown into a toolkit of speculative activities that help teams forecast the consequences of their products.
Through her work with <Design Ethically>, she has spoken at events hosted by the Nobel Prize Summit (2023), European Parliament (2022) and the US Federal Trade Commission (2021), as well as an assortment of tech conferences. Kat has been quoted in the BBC, WIRED, Fast Company, Protocol, and Tech Policy Press. Outside of <Design Ethically>, Kat has worked as a designer in the industry for years. She recently completed a masters degree in AI Ethics & Society at the University of Cambridge.
Keio Yoshida
Dr Keio Yoshida is an international human rights lawyer and qualified barrister in England and Wales and the Republic of Ireland. They are currently a senior legal advisor at the Center for Reproductive Rights, and an associate tenant at Doughty Street Chambers. Prior to joining the Center, they worked as a barrister at Doughty Street on women’s rights, LGBTQ+ rights and media law.
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Letonde A. Hermine Gbedo
Hermine has worked since 2003 for the Committee for the Civil Rights of Prostitutes ApS as a cultural linguistic mediator and professional educator. Presently, she coordinates their anti-trafficking programme in Trieste. She is an expert in the preliminary and formal identification of victims of trafficking and severe exploitation. She is a community leader and focal point in the organisation of thematic meetings in different contexts on women’s reproductive health, FGM, and the dissemination of awareness-raising campaigns on STIs, including HIV, through outreach activities to vulnerable populations.
She is co-author of “Through their eyes and stories” in “Stella Polare. 20 years of the anti-trafficking network route” (2023), edited by M. Altin and V. Saba.
Linda Pavanello
Linda Pavanello is a social worker for the anti trafficking project and a feminist activist in the area of human rights and sex workers’ rights at the Comitato per i Diritti Civili delle Prostitute APS in Trieste (Italy). She has an Eramsus Mundus Master Degree on Women’s and Gender Studies with a double diploma from Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna and University of Granada. Her master’s thesis is focused on the haptic experience of feminist postpornography and she co-authored “Instinct(Ive) Senses: The Haptic Experience of Feminist Postpornography” published by Feminist Media Studies in 2024.
Lisa Tatu Hey
Tatu has been active in Berlin’s climate justice ecosystem. Together with Imeh Ituen, they published a study about the lack of understanding of environmental racism in Germany. Currently Tatu is working on a podcast called “Climate Everywhere, Justice Nowhere” (Überall Klima, Nirgendwo Gerechtigkeit), the first German language climate podcast to centre anti-racism and decolonial perspectives in its narrative.
Nawal Mustafa
Nawal Mustafa is a postdoc researcher and lawyer based in the Netherlands. Her research and professional work mainly focuses on issues of “race”, gender, Islamophobia and the role of the law and legal professionals.
Nicolette Busuttil
Nozizwe Dube
Nozizwe Dube is a Ph.D. candidate in EU law at Maastricht University, researching intersectional discrimination in EU equality law. Nozizwe attained her Bachelor and Master of Laws from KU Leuven (Belgium). Nozizwe has interned at the Belgian Constitutional Court and the Belgian Permanent Representation to the UN (New York).
Senada Sali
Senada Sali is an international human rights lawyer and Legal Director of the European Roma Rights Centre, Brussels. She holds an MA in Constitutional Law (with a specialisation in Human Rights) from the Law Faculty “Iustinian Primus” in Skopje and a second MA in International Relations and European Studies from the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary.
She has written several articles and opinion pieces related to intersectionality and human rights abuses faced by the Romani community in Europe.
Sheena Anderson
Sheena Anderson (she/her) is a Black feminist, intersectional environmentalist and political scientist. In her everyday job, she works as a project manager at the Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy, leading the centre’s work on Antiracism and Climate Justice. She is also an anti-bias trainer, with years of experience in political education. As an activist, Sheena writes regularly about intersectional climate justice and is an activist with the Berlin-based Black Earth Collective.
Sylvia Kamanja
Veronica Saba
Veronica Saba is an expert in advocacy, social policy and human rights, with an academic and professional background focused on empowering vulnerable groups and developing strategies for inclusion and countering discrimination. She received her Ph.D. in anthropology with a dissertation on violence against migrant women in cross-border settings.
She is an activist on the issues of feminism, gender violence, human rights and anti-racism and is coauthor of the book “Stella Polare. Twenty years of route and anti-trafficking network” (Editrice Univesità di Trieste).
Vivi Brassói
Vivi Brassói is a Romani human rights lawyer and one of the legal directors of the European Roma Rights Centre, a Roma-led organization that uses strategic litigation, action research, policy advocacy and human rights education to combat anti-Roma racism in Europe.
Project support
Marthe Heringa
Marthe Heringa is coordinator of the Legal Mobilization Platform, a network that connects social justice activists and scholars that conduct research on social justice topics. Next to that, she is also finishing her bachelor in International Studies at Leiden University.
