Aliya Bashir is an independent journalist covering India and Indian-administered Kashmir with a focus on human rights, gender justice, women’s issues, the environment, healthcare, education, and minorities. The publications she has written for include The Guardian, Time, Lancet Psychiatry, The New Humanitarian, Reuters, Global Press Journal, and TRT World. She is the winner of the 2015 Schizophrenia Research Foundation-Press Institute of India “Media for Mental Health” award for best reporting on mental health issues in India and has won reporting grants from International Women’s Media Foundation and Population Reference Bureau. Follow her on Twitter @aliyabashir.
Pedro Cisterna Gaete is a Chilean lawyer, LLM, and a PhD candidate in law at the University of Edinburgh. He is currently the Chief Executive Director of Nuestra América Verde. Follow him on Twitter @Pedrocig.
Nelly Kalu is a Nigerian journalist, podcaster and fact-checker working in broadcast, digital media, and media advocacy. Her work spotlights social, political, and economic and under-reported issues. You can find her on Twitter @nellylaoni.
Emily L. Hauser is a freelance writer and communications professional. She writes a monthly column for DAME Magazine. On Twitter: @emilylhauser .
Rasha Younes is a queer feminist researcher with the LGBT Rights Program at Human Rights Watch, investigating abuses against LGBT people in the Middle East and North Africa region. Her current work focuses on state-sponsored digital surveillance and entrapment of LGBT people around the region, in addition to violence against LGBT people in Iraq. On Twitter: @rasha_younes.
Nimet Kıraç is a multimedia journalist based in Turkey’s south. She covers breaking news, and often writes and produces feature stories concerning Turkey’s contemporary social and political affairs. Her work provides intimate access to a wide range of scenes from across Anatolia. A graduate of George Washington University, she began her career at the CNN International in Atlanta. She has covered major news stories as a reporter, producer and editor, and has been published by numerous global news outlets including the Financial Times, CNN, Al-Monitor, Euronews, Le Figaro, and Middle East Eye. On Instagram: nkirac.
Miriam Libicki is a graphic novelist who divides her time between Vancouver, Canada and Angoulême, France. Her short comics have been published by the Nib, Abrams, Rutgers University Press, and the Journal of Jewish Identities. Her book of drawn essays, Toward a Hot Jew was named a Forbes Top 10 graphic novel of 2016 and received a 2017 Vine Award for Canadian Jewish Literature. Her painted essay “Who Gets Called an Unfit Mother” was nominated for a 2020 Best Short Story Eisner. Libicki teaches illustration at Emily Carr University of Art and Design, and was the 2017 Writer in Residence at the Vancouver Public Library. On Twitter: @realgonegirl.
