Powering Up Our Collective Resilience 

Yasmina is an award-winning feminist activist, consultant, and women’s empowerment coach dedicated to advancing gender equality and promoting women’s rights. As the founder of Politics4Her, she advocates for increased political participation and representation for young women and girls. She focuses on climate justice, forced migration, gender-based violence, and peacebuilding. Yasmina has been featured on international platforms such as HuffPost, Al Jazeera, BBC, and more. She has spoken at prestigious institutions, including the United Nations. Yasmina’s achievements include Forbes 30 Under 30, MADRE Champion, BBC 100 most influential and inspiring women of 2023, and recognition as a UN Women Peace-builder in the Arab States. 

Peace Monica is a Ugandan social entrepreneur, named among 40 under 40 elite, inspirational Ugandans 2019 and 2020 by ‘The New Vision’ and is recognised by the United Nations Population Fund as an advocate for Sexual Reproductive Health Rights 2019. Peace is the founder and Executive Director of Nile Girls Forum, a girl-led organisation focusing on elevating resilient adolescent girls and young women with an emphasis on leadership, sexual reproductive health rights, and livelihood.

Chanda is the Director of Restless Development Zambia and has 18 years of experience implementing meaningful youth engagement programmes. In her role within the global leadership team, Chanda is a key figure in defining the strategic direction and vision of Restless Development. As the leader of the Zambia Hub, she manages strategic operations, leading a diverse team of 50 staff members, coordinating 300 volunteers, and engaging an extensive network of over 500 alumni. Her leadership is pivotal in integrating youth-led engagement principles throughout the organisation. Chanda’s dynamic approach to leadership and hands-on advocacy efforts have made significant strides in promoting youth-led development within local governments.

Maya Juracán is a Curator and activist. who uses art as a tool to change traditional historical narratives.She founded “Proyecto 44” in 2011, which evolved into the “Bienal en Resistencia,” a street-based biennial in Guatemala.She has co-curated “21 Paiz Art Biennial”  and has co-created a collective of feminist curators “La Revuelta” which theorizes and practices feminist curating. She is an allied curator of Casa de la Memoria and has participated as an author in various books and is currently a professor of Contemporary Art History at the Francisco Marroquín University in Guatemala.

Helen is the Co-founder of HEBUCH Consultancy Firm and is a gender consultant. She has researched on several gender areas such as Gender machinery, Gender Equality and Inclusion self-assessment (GEISA), Gender Youth and Social Inclusion (GYSA), and Gender Rapid Assessments in different settings. She has worked in International and local organizations as a gender specialist for over 20 years. She is a trainer on Gender transformation and a women’s rights activist. She has presented papers on gender on different forums such as AU on harmful practices and child marriage.

Jimena has a M.Sc. in Transnational, Cultural and Community Studies and is the Senior Youth Collective Coordinator at Restless Development.

Chimbu is the Youth power coordinator at Restless Development, leading the Youth Stop AIDS campaign as well as UK-wide work with Young activists. Passionate about equipping young people with the skills and resources to tackle global issues surrounding health equity, HIV, Digital health and health education through advocacy and campaigning.