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Nesmah Mansoor is a Women's Peace and Security expert and a Co-founder of the Peace Track Initiative, currently serving as their Policy and Communication Senior Officer. She specializes in the intersection of peacebuilding and climate justice and is Peace Track Initiative’s focal point for Feminist Climate Justice issues. Nesmah is also pursuing a master's degree in International Relations at Inal...

Deepti Mathew is the Chief Executive Officer at Street Business School.  Deepti has over 25 years of experience leading complex, global projects as a strategy and transformation consultant with a range of organizations. She grew up in India, Tanzania and Cameroon, and is committed to development and improving livelihoods for the world’s most vulnerable.  Street Business School empowers women to be...

Françoise Moudouthe is a Pan-African Feminist and a supporter of feminist movements. She is currently the CEO of the African Women's Development Fund.  African Women's Development Fund is a feminist fund that resources, supports and nurtures African women’s rights organisations and feminist movements to sustain themselves. In the Girls' Globe Solidarity Studio, Françoise speaks about feminism and...

Magda-Sarah Boulabiza is the policy and advocacy advisor for climate and economic justice at the European Network Against Racism (ENAR).  Magda has experience working with migration and asylum law in France and in the field of Corporate Social Responsibility in relation to diversity and inclusion of minority groups in the workplace. Magda has a Master’s Degree in Public Law and Public Affairs. In...

Adèle Kirsten has been a non-violent, social justice activist for almost 40 years in South Africa, and is the Director of Gun Free South Africa, of which she was a founding member.  Adèle became active in the anti-apartheid movement in the late 70’s as a result of her opposition to the injustices of the apartheid system, the growing militarisation of the society, and her support for those who refu...

Chiara Martinelli is the Director of Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe. CAN Europe is Europe's leading NGO coalition fighting dangerous climate change. With over 200 member organisations active in 40 European countries, representing over 1,700 NGOs and more than 40 million citizens, CAN Europe promotes sustainable climate, energy and development policies across Europe. CAN Europe is the regional...

Students across Western nations are taking to the streets and to their universities to demand them to end their complicity in the crimes of Israel and the ongoing genocide. Students are making noise and making waves of change. The student protests that started in the US, have spread across the country and across Europe. These students have been called anti-semites in the media. They have been call...

Obstetric fistula is a devastating childbirth injury. It leaves a woman incontinent, humiliated, and—all too often—shunned by her community. Surgery is the only cure. Habiba C. Mohamed, Regional Director of Programs in Africa at Fistula Foundation. Bwalya Magawa Chomba is the Program Director for Zambia at Fistula Foundation.  In this episode they each share a story of a girl and woman with fistul...

Emmanuel Achiri is the Policy and Advocacy Officer at the European Network Against Racism (ENAR) - an expert on migration, policing and security. He holds a doctorate in International Relations with a focus on international law and forced migration. "Europe fails to acknowledge its history. Europe fails to acknowledge that one of the reasons why we have a lot of instability in the global majority....

Sharon Kathryn D’Agostino is a passionate advocate for the empowerment of women and girls, and for the human rights of all. Sharon founded the story-sharing platform, SayItForward.org, and she hosts monthly Women’s Circles online. She believes in the power of stories to spark our compassion for ourselves and for others, and to recognize that we are all connected. In this episode, Julia and Sharon...

"I strongly feel that the world is like a puzzle. One piece of the puzzle is not important than another." Mwanahamisi “Mishy” Singano talks about WEDO, the Women's Environment and Development Organization, and what feminist solidarity means to her. Mishy is the Senior Global Policy Lead at WEDO and an African feminist passionate about fighting structural and intersecting inequalities while contrib...

"Women's rights organizations should collectively come up to speak about the issues of all women with disabilities. The fact that we are women with disabilities does not make us lesser women." Lucy Mulombi shares her call to action in the Girls' Globe Solidarity Studio - a space where activists, advocates, experts and changemakers are invited to share parts of their stories, their calls to action...

Ana Laura is the Executive Director and Co Founder of Soy Niña, a girl-serving organization that works in urban communities in San Jose, Costa Rica. Ana Laura studied journalism and photography and graduated from Georgia State University in Atlanta. She has worked at nonprofit organizations and private foundations for over fourteen years and has experience in the areas of communications, event pla...

Jules Lynch is the Founder and CEO of Global Girl Project. She’s the innovative developer of the organization’s programming and she works in partnership with NGOs and schools globally to implement and run leadership programs and initiatives for girls. Over the past twenty years, Jules has worked as a Community Social Worker and Therapist in Canada, Great Britain, and the United States. She has als...

This is part 2 of invaluable advice from changemakers! With a special focus on the importance of self care, community and connecting with your own power. We hear advice on managing hopelessness and uncomfortable work. This episode features advice from Nasra Ayub, Bulelwa Adonis, Riya Williams Yuyada, Celina de Sola, Lina Abirafeh and Sharon D'Agostino.  "Put your health and your mental health firs...

It’s a new year - and we’re leaving a brutal year behind and entering in to one with great challenges. It doesn’t look like the world is going to change so quickly - which means that changemakers like yourself are more important than ever! We are needed to create a world where everyone can live in freedom and dignity. "The only thing that will bring us out of hopelessness is taking action and bein...

This is a takeover by ActionAid International and their campaign called #HerStory. #HerStory is an anti-modern slavery campaign by  ActionAid International  to raise awareness of the prevalence of modern slavery, shed light on the impact it has on women and girls in particular, and amplify the voice of female survivors. In this podcast, you’ll hear a conversation led by ActionAid International’s V...

In this episode Julia Wiklander, founder of Girls' Globe and host of the Hey Changemaker! Podcast speaks about what Feminist Solidarity means and how we can be a part of building it through a global digital media movement.  A feminist solidarity is one that sees the interlinkages of our shared humanity and planet. If your heart breaks when witnessing what’s happening in Palestine, Sudan, Congo, My...

The episode features a conversation between Shiphrah Belonguel, a Girls' Globe Fellow, and Latanya Mapp Frett, President and CEO of Global Fund for Women. Latanya shares her personal journey into feminist grant-making, highlighting her experiences growing up as a black woman in the United States and her dedication to justice. A turning point in her career occurred in Ethiopia, where she realized t...

Nisha Anand is the CEO of Dream.org , a nonprofit organization that brings people together across racial, social and partisan lines to solve some of the toughest problems in the US and beyond. She is also the Political Director of  Rebuild The Dream , an organization fighting for an economy that works for everyone. In essence, Nisha works at the intersection of criminal justice reform, green econo...

Kim Smouter, the Executive Director of the European Network Against Racism (ENAR). Kim is a policy and advocacy expert with nearly 20 years experience advocating social causes including LGBTQIA+ rights, employment, education and social affairs, civic space and dialogue, and digital rights. Previously, Kim has held senior and leadership roles in the European Parliament, the European Network of Nati...

In this episode of the Hey Changemaker podcast, you’ll hear a conversation from the Girls’ Globe Solidarity Studio. Girls’ Globe’s Advisor Felogene Anumo speaks with Spogmay Ahmed in a conversation centered around feminist foreign policy. Spogmay Ahmed is the Senior Policy Advisor for the Feminist Foreign Policy Collaborative . In this capacity, she helps manage the Global Partner Network for Femi...

Dr. Taveeshi Gupta is the Director of Research, Evaluation and Learning at Equimundo. Her expertise lies in understanding the role of gender norms in perpetuating violence against women and children, creating inequitable home and workplace environments, and reinforcing inter-generational transmission of harmful gender identities for boys and girls. In this conversation, Dr. Taveeshi Gupta speaks w...

Dr. Brenda Oulo is a feminist researcher specialising in multidisciplinary topics related to the well-being of adolescent girls. As the co-director of the Girls Agency Lab (GAL), Dr. Brenda leads an initiative that spans across Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi, and Rwanda. In addition, she's currently pursuing a doctoral degree in Public Health Economics and Decision Science in the esteemed Wellcom...

In this episode, Julia Wiklander speaks about the horrors happening in Palestine and Israel and in other parts of the world. She shares how she believes we must let it break our hearts, to allow for compassion and determined action.  This episode includes audio from Sim Kern and Filippo Grande . The audio is taken from Instagram, and you can follow them @refugees and @sim_bookstagrams_badly . Juli...