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 and founder of Systemic Justice, an organisation that works on strategic litigation for racial, social, and economic justice. She regularly writes opinion pieces and has contributed to various academic publications, including Feminist Judgments in International Law.
Nani is the initiator of the Intersectional Rewrites project.
Photo: Tetsuro Miyazaki
Adam Weiss
Adam is the Director of Programmes for Europe at ClientEarth, where he was previously 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.
Eddie Bruce-Jones
Lyn Tjon Soei Len
Lyn Tjon Soei Len, a feminist legal scholar in the Department of Women’s, Gender, Sexuality Studies at Ohio State University, examines private law’s role in maintaining social injustice. As the Chair of the board of Bureau Clara Wichmann, a feminist strategic litigation organisation, she engages with the role of strategic litigation in the pursuit of more just futures.
Authors
Amal Ali
Dr Amal Ali is an international lawyer and founded AQN International Law Firm, which provides cross-border legal services for individuals, businesses, governments, and international organisations.
Prior to this, she was a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Lincoln, where she worked for over five years and still teaches on the LL.M programmes. Her ongoing research, which stems from her doctoral thesis, examines the jurisprudence and policy documents of the right to manifest a religious belief within the ECHR and its implementation within the Contracting Party States.
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, specializes 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. Notably, she has co-authored an article examining the right to a healthy environment within the jurisprudence of the ECtHR.
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.
Photo: Holly Buckle
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.
Keina Yoshida
Dr Keina 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.
Photo: Michelle Vaz
Letonde Hermine Gbedo
Letonde Hermine Gbedo is a cultural mediator and coordinator of anti-trafficking program project in Trieste and secretary of the Comitato per i Diritti Civili delle Prostitute ApS. She is a human rights activist and a sex workers’ ally. She is a social operator, educator, and cultural mediator specialised since 2003 in providing assistance to migrants who have experienced trafficking and sexual/labour exploitation.
Linda Pavanello
Linda Pavanello is a a social operator for the antitrafficking project of Comitato per i Diritti Civili delle Prostitute ApS. The main objective of the association is to support and assist sex workers, and LGBTQI+ community members as well as to fight against human trafficking and exploitation. She is also a volunteer for Casa Internazionale delle Donne ApS. She is a feminist activist.
She has an Erasmus Mundus Master’s Degree in Women’s and Gender Studies with a double diploma from Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna and University of Granada.
Lisa Tatu Hey
Tatu is part of the BIPoC Black Earth Climate Justice Collective and is based in Berlin. With decolonial, queer feminist and ecological perspectives, Black Earth advocates for an intersectional climate movement and narratives. Together with Imeh Ituen, they published a study about environmental racism in Germany.
Lys Kulamadayil
Lys is an international lawyer, a senior research fellow at Helmut-Schmidt University, and the principal investigator of the Law by Colour Code project, funded by the Swiss National Sciences Foundation. She also serves as senior advisor the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food. Her research interests include the governance of nature, particularly of mineral resources, human rights, and diversity in legal research and praxis.
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 has been working in Trieste’s anti-trafficking project since 2021 as contact person for the social and labor inclusion area. She received her PhD in Anthropology with a dissertation on violence against migrant women in the cross-border area.
She’s a social worker and activist on issues of feminism, gender-based violence human rights and anti-racism: she has written about these issues in the magazine Jacobinitalia.it. She co-authored the book “Stella Polare. Twenty years of route and anti-trafficking network” published under Creative Commons by 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.
