Social and Economic Equity

Working toward real-world solutions to global inequalities.

BASED AT THE INTERNATIONAL INEQUALITIES INSTITUTE, LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS

OLUFOLAHAN (FOLA) ADELEKE

Senior lecturer, School of Law, University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg, South Africa

Working on transparency and corporate accountability; current focus is on the monetization of our personal data and its impact on the right to privacy and access to information.

SAIDA ALI

Gender lead, support to Africa-led movement to end female genital mutilation or cutting, Action Aid UK; Global Women’s, CARE International Nairobi, Kenya

SEBASTIAN BOCK

Team leader for Germany, 350.org Berlin, Germany

Integrating deep understanding of girls’ and women’s rights and how social norms perpetuate gendered inequalities and unequal power. Providing strategic guidance and management to the program hub, and practical tools, strategies and capacity building. Building and strengthening grassroots movements fighting the coal, oil and gas industry; working to stop financial flows into fossil fuel companies and infrastructure.

MELANIE R. BROWN

Senior program officer, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; Adjunct professor, American University Washington, DC, USA

Leading the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation engagement with influential constituencies across North America, focusing on public education, economic mobility and public policy. Speaker/ writer on race, gender, inequality and philanthropy.

PATRICIO ESPINOZA

Senior research analyst, Chambers and Partners London, United Kingdom

JOSEPH HASSON

Senior program officer for Human Rights, Sigrid Rausing Trust London, United Kingdom

TRACY JOOSTE

Lead adviser, International Budget Partnership (IBP) South Africa; member of the board of directors, Isandla Institute Cape Town, South Africa

PRIYANKA K.

Ph.D. student, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge; co-founder, Chitrakoot Collective Cambridge, United Kingdom; New Delhi, India

Working on research projects related to inequalities, elites and education in Chile. Identifying, assessing, and supporting grantee organizations, at local and national levels, to advance universal human rights and justice. Advising IBP South Africa and its grassroot partner organizations. Supporting research and advocacy for improved basic services to informal settlements across South African cities. Calling for greater accountability in how cities spend their budgets. Studying as a doctoral candidate in sociology, and a Gates Scholar, at the University of Cambridge. Co-founded Chitrakoot Collective, a grassroots feminist organisation working on all things gender.

ROSE LONGHURST

Program officer, Open Society Initiative for Europe Berlin, Germany

JOHNNY MILLER

Photographer, Unequal Scenes; News Fellow, Code for Africa; founder, africanDRONE Cape Town, South Africa

MASANA NDINGA-KANGA

Crisis Response Fund and MENA Advocacy lead, CIVICUS Johannesburg, South Africa

JACK NISSAN

Director, Tinderbox Collective; board member, Music Education Partnership Group/We Make Music Scotland Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Supporting democratic innovation across Europe. Championing participatory decision-making as an approach to equity. Working to creatively communicate systems and processes relating to economic, environmental and social justice issues. Managing an NPO dedicated to creating a drone community “for good”. Managing a fund focused on supporting civil society in crisis around their rights to free assembly and association. Leading on Middle East/ North Africa and Women Human Rights Defender advocacy. Building a collective of young people, musicians, artists and youth workers. Finding creative and collaborative ways of bringing people together, building community and opening up opportunities for children and young people.

FREDRICK OUKO ALUCHELI

Program officer, Disability Rights Program, Open Society Initiative for Eastern Africa; founder, Riziki Source Nairobi, Kenya

LOUIS OLANYA OYARO

Consultant (South Sudan Project), Max Planck Foundation for International Peace and Rule of Law Heidelberg, Germany

JANE SLOANE

Senior director, Women’s Empowerment, The Asia Foundation San Francisco, U.S.

APPU ESTHOSE SURESH

Founder, Pixstory New Delhi, India

Supporting organizations for persons with disabilities in seven Eastern African countries through grantmaking and advocacy to promote disability rights and amplifying the voices of often marginalized parts of society. Focusing on research, training and policy intervention to support the realization of the rule of law and access to justice in South Sudan, working directly with the government of South Sudan. Working to advance gender equality globally. Currently writing a book on activism at home and in the world to address inequalities. Creating the space to build people’s narratives which are alternative, non-singular, personal and political.

RANIA M. TARAZI

Gender specialist, International Organization; program and policy adviser, Arab Renaissance for Democracy and Development; program manager, Oxfam Amman, Jordan

Currently working on gender equality in the Arab region, current and previous interest and experience in research and projects for policy and legal reform, care and informal work and social protection focusing on disadvantaged communities.

MILENA ABRAHAMYAN

Feminist justice and peace activist Yerevan, Armenia

Supporting local and international organizations with capacity building, facilitation and research on feminist peace and gender justice.

KRIPA BASNYAT

Co-founder, Reclaiming Narratives Kathmandu, Nepal

Co-created Reclaiming Narratives, a feminist intersectional collective, to work through feminist research and advocacy, knowledge production, feminist pedagogy and feminist cross-movement building.

NICOLA BROWNE

Founding coordinator, Act Now - People Powered Campaigning for Northern Ireland; fellow for Peace and Leadership, Social Change Initiative Belfast, United Kingdom

Building a people-powered campaigning community to take coordinated action for progressive change across Northern Ireland; supporting communities in their campaigning for socio- economic rights.

HILLARY VIPOND

Ph.D. student in Department of Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science; founding member, Universal Basic Services Taskforce London, United Kingdom

LAUREN BURKE

Organizing director, Labor Network for Sustainability Washington, D.C., U.S.

Researching why improvements to technological efficiency have been primarily converted into increased consumption rather than leisure. Focusing on climate change and inequality implications. Leading a team to be a relentless force for urgent, science-based climate action by building a powerful laborclimate movement to secure an ecologically sustainable and economically just future where everyone can make a living on a living planet.

TANYA CHARLES

Program and impact lead: senior fellow engagement, The Atlantic Institute Oxford, United Kingdom

ALLISON CORKERY

Director of Strategy and Learning, Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR) Johannesburg, South Africa

Working with senior Atlantic Fellows and program staff from across the seven Atlantic Fellows programs to facilitate collective actions that address global inequities through cocreated thematic gatherings and workshops. Working with activists around the world to translate human rights norms into tools for collective analysis and action on inequalities.

RENATA CUK

Program officer, Open Society Initiative for Europe Barcelona, Spain

TAYLOR ERSKINE DOWNS

Founder and head of Product, Open Function Group; co-lead, Information Mediation Group, GovStack initiative (The ITU) London, United Kingdom

CRAIG TINASHE DUBE

Training assistant, No Means No Worldwide Leiden, Netherlands

ELIMANE HABY KANE

Founder and chairman, LEGS-Africa (Leadership, Ethics, Governance, Strategies for Africa) Dakar, Senegal

Focusing on economic justice in gig work and care work, challenges to unregulated ‘big tech’, and supporting building workers’ power through organizing, greater visibility and collective bargaining. Supporting governments and NGOs as they scale health, humanitarian, and childprotection interventions via secure, responsible dataintegration, automation, and interoperability initiatives. Working with a sexual violence prevention organization that supports and trains organizations in highrisk environments to deliver a rape prevention curriculum to boys (intervention and positive masculinity) and girls (empowerment and self-defence). Nurturing leadership against inequality through democratic and economic governance policies and systems monitoring, research into public-private power relations in extractive industries, and promoting young entrepreneurs.

EVERLYN MILANOI KOIYIET

Human rights lawyer; co-founder, Center for Women’s Rights Advocacy (CWRA) Nairobi, Kenya

JAMES MURAGURI

Founder and chief executive officer, Institute of Public Finance Kenya Nairobi, Kenya

ROSELINE ORWA

Chief executive officer and development director, Rona Foundation Nairobi, Kenya

ANITA PEÑA SAAVEDRA

Research associate, Laboratorio de Transformaciones Sociales; Ph.D. student, Universidad Diego Portales Santiago, Chile

Working toward gender equality and an end to violence against women and girls, including those with disabilities; mentoring of young women and girls in pastoral communities; advancing the rights of the marginalized. Focusing as a public finance practitioner on how public finance management can address inequalities at both national and subnational government level. Building change as a grassroots gender, policy and development champion, with a focus on social, economic and leadership training for widows and schoolgirls, and working with male champions to change harmful traditional practices around widowhood. Building the free exercise of sexual and reproductive rights across Latin America and the Caribbean. Fighting for the recognition of sexual and reproductive rights in the Chilean constitution.

LOUISE RUSSELL-PRYWATA

Director of Policy & Programmes, Open Ownership Gillingham, United Kingdom

GABRIELLA RAZZANO

Research fellow, Research ICT Africa; founder of OpenUp South Africa; legal consultant Cape Town, South Africa

Working on public policy reform at the intersection of anti-corruption and tax justice to increase the accountability of elite individuals and corporations to citizens and societies. Working on issues of digital inequalities in Africa, as well as advancing human rights (particularly access to information and privacy) in digital and innovation contexts.

MAUREEN SIGAUKE

Social Justice, labor and community activist; consultant Kwekwe, Zimbabwe

PEDRO TELLES

Co-founder and director, Quid; co-founder and board member, Advocacy Hub São Paulo, Brazil

Leading and facilitating community-based initiatives aimed at strengthening community cohesion and participation in interrelated socioeconomic issues, with a special focus on children and youth education. Advocating inclusion and leadership for vulnerable community groups. Advocacy, civic engagement and public policy expert with extensive experience of working with civil society organizations, movements, funders and in the public sector.

ANJALI SARKER

Program manager, The Oxford Character Project, University of Oxford Oxford, United Kingdom

Focusing on systems change and responsible leadership at The Oxford Character Project; previously at BRAC in Bangladesh, leading a project providing one million women with access to digital financial services.

MADHUMITHA ARDHANARI

Senior sustainability strategist, Forum for the Future Singapore

SOPHEA CHREK

Coordinator, Social Action for Community and Development (SACD) Phnom Penh, Cambodia

DELLA Z. DUNCAN

Renegade economist; host of “Upstream” podcast; Right Livelihood coach and facilitator San Francisco, U.S.

ALON-LEE GREEN

National co-director, Standing Together; co-owner, The Brothers Green Bookshop, Tel Aviv Tel Aviv, Israel

Working toward climate justice and resource equity, and pursuing an Master of Science in Inequalities and Social Science (LSE) to understand how climate injustice intersects with dimensions such as race, poverty and gender. Working toward a just economy, social justice, gender justice, people participatory democracy and systemic change. Inviting paradigm and worldview shifts to contribute to the just transition to more equitable and sustainable economies through storytelling, coaching, consulting and facilitating. Organizing people with the aim of building a political alternative of social justice, equality and peace. Coordinating struggles against the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories, and injustices and inequalities.

JOAN JONES

Executive director, SEIU Washington State Labor Council; founder and president, National LGBTQ Workers Center Seattle, U.S.

Cultivating a voice for working people in the Pacific Northwest. Leading an LGBTQ movement for economic justice and workers’ rights.

ASHA KOWTAL

Dalit rights activist and founder, DalitWomenFight.org New Delhi, India

HOBETH MARTÍNEZ CARRILLO

Senior research officer, School of Law, University of Essex Bogotá, Colombia

Leading a grassroots campaign addressing structural violence against the most marginalized women. Working on the transitional justice process in Colombia and researching how to link redress for human rights violations to the fulfilment of economic, social and cultural rights and the reduction of structural inequalities.

ESTHER MWEMA

Founder and curator, Safety First for Girls (SAFIGI); founder and chief strategist, Digital Grassroots; inter-agency coordination analyst, UN Women Lusaka, Zambia

Using art to build tools toward girls’ safety (via Safety First for Girls) and increase digital citizenship in local communities (via Digital Grassroots). An expert in internet governance, inequality and innovation.

LIZ NELSON

Director, Tax Justice and Human Rights, Tax Justice Network Oxford, United Kingdom

FOLUKE ADETOLA OJELABI

Advocacy/planning officer, UNICEF New York City, U.S.

MICHAELA RAFFERTY

Young persons development officer (school exclusions), Just for Kids Law London, United Kingdom

LEANNE SAJOR

Senior strategic adviser, Tides Advocacy; adviser, FRIDA: Young Feminist Fund New York City, U.S.

Drawing on research and practice to forge alliances to strengthen the narrative of how tax justice underpins equality, militates against discrimination and supports the realization of human rights. Advocating for children’s rights, promoting access, demand and equity for public services needed by children and women, especially the most marginalized. Coordinating campaigns led by young people with lived experience of school exclusions to highlight the underlying inequalities and injustices in school exclusions. Strengthening solidarities and deepening impact among social justice and human rights movements and organizations globally, to address inequalities from the bottom up.

CRYSTAL SIMEONI

Director, Nawi: Afrifem Macroeconomics Collective Nairobi, Kenya

AMANDA YOUNG

Indigenous advocate, University of Melbourne Melbourne, Australia

Working to influence macro- level economic policies from a pan-African feminist analysis, across regional and global spaces. Working as an Indigenous equity practitioner across political, social, economic and environmental spheres.

KITTI BARACSI

Learning coordinator, TuTela Learning Network; learning and research consultant Lisbon, Portugal

MARIA CARRASCO

Director, Entramada Social Consultancy Company; lecturer in social policy, Talca University Santiago, Chile

CHRISTOPHER CHOONG WENG WAI

Deputy director of research, Khazanah Research Institute Petaling Jaya, Malaysia

DANILO CURCIC

Program coordinator, A 11 - Initiative for Economic and Social Rights Belgrade, Serbia

Creating spaces of collective learning and creative action to fight urban inequalities, with children, young people and women. Connecting experiences of grassroots activism to spread existing but marginalized models of change. Tackling social inequalities by integrating multidimensional perspectives into social policies; co-founder of Entramada, a cooperative that strengthens local communities via the good living concept. Researching the everyday reproduction of poverty, inequality and exclusion, with a focus on the political economies of Malaysia and Southeast Asia. Tackling housing and other social inequalities among the most vulnerable communities in Serbia, and bringing economic and social rights back to the agendas of decision-makers.

ANDREA ENCALADA GARCÍA

Economist and higher education policy specialist Santiago, Chile

MAURO FERNANDEZ

Consultant, Heinrich Böll Stiftung & FARN (Argentina); columnist, elDiarioAR and Revista Anfibia Buenos Aires, Argentina

CLAIRE GODFREY

Consultant Oxford, United Kingdom

Working toward non-elitist and non-segregated access to higher education and countering the effects of neo-liberal policies on higher education. Building and communicating ecological and social transitions toward fairer, inclusive and sustainable livelihoods for all. Working for policy change in economic inequality and development finance, and strengthening civil society influence.

GEORGIA HADDAD NICOLAU

Director and co-founder, Instituto Procomum; strategic and dialogue facilitator working for civil society organizations, Faraímará, São Paulo, Brazil

Working for the commons; facilitator in collective construction processes; founder/project director of the Procomum Institute, an organization focused on culture, technology, politics and citizenship.

MAXIMO ERNESTO JARAMILLO-MOLINA

Founder, INDESIG (Institute of Studies on Inequality); associate professor, University of Guadalajara Guadalajara, Mexico

Working on deconstruction of myths of meritocracy and other narratives that justify inequality, with academic research, activism and dissemination though social networks.

VIVIANA OSORIO PÉREZ

Lawyer, activist and scholar Medellín, Colombia

Advancing women’s economic, social and cultural rights via litigation, evidencebased advocacy, crossmovement solidarity and campaigning.

IMOGEN RICHMOND-BISHOP

Right to Food program coordinator, Sustain: The Alliance For Better Food and Farming London, United Kingdom

MOHAMMED-ANWAR SADAT ADAM

Head of programs and campaigns at Oxfam in Ghana; programs coordinator, Institute for Policy Alternatives, Ghana Accra Metropolitan District, Ghana

Working on socioeconomic rights in the United Kingdom, with a particular focus on how better legal protection of these rights would reduce inequalities, especially for marginalized groups. Working for social and economic justice via research, policy, and the strengthening of civil society’s safe and vibrant spaces in order to hold the powerful to account and uphold human rights.

TYEHIMBA SALANDY

Sociologist, Institute of Indigenous Knowledge, Empowerment and Research Diego Martin, Trinidad and Tobago

OABONA SEPORA

Lecturer, Institute of Development Management (IDM); executive director, Friends of Diversity Gaborone, Botswana

Working on decolonizing global and local spaces and self through dialogue, alternative media and Indigenous knowledge. Advancing the rights of key populations in Botswana within the areas of legal and policy reform, mental health and civic action.

MIRIAM TAY

Finance and administration officer/ gender focal person, German Development Cooperation (GIZ, Ghana); management consultant; co-founder,WODIF Ghana Accra, Ghana

Promoting digital and financial literacy as a sustainable tool for addressing inequalities and alleviating poverty, and supporting development partners with gender mainstreaming initiatives in Ghana.

BARBARA VAN PAASSEN

Consultant and advocate for social and environmental justice, Independent; founder, For the Love of Changemaking Milan, Italy

Supporting changemakers in social and environmental justice and women’s rights by strengthening analysis, strategy and outreach; and developing initiatives to change the world of changemaking itself.

IRENE WAKARINDI

Activist and Black feminist and policy analyst, Food for Education Nairobi, Kenya

Working to make refugee policy and governance structures more transparent, accountable and inclusive, with the aim of providing an opportunity for economic integration in host countries/ countries of asylum.