Women PeaceMakers Fellowship

Estefanía Castañeda Pérez an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Southern California (USC). Prior to joining USC, she completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Penn Migration Initiative at the Univers...

Lilian Olivia Orero is a Gender and Technology Lawyer from Nairobi, Kenya. Her peacebuilding work focuses on addressing technology-facilitated gender-based violence (TFGBV) through legal advocacy, digital innovation and feminist policy influence. She is the Founder of SafeOnline Women Kenya (S...

Noemy Molina is a human rights lawyer with a degree from the Central American University José Simeón Cañas (UCA) in El Salvador, and a Master’s in Regional Development from El Colegio de la Frontera Norte in Mexico. She has over two decades of experience in academic ...

Dr. Bochra Laghssais is a Doctor of Philosophy in International Studies with a specialization in Peace, Conflict, and Development at Jaume I University in Spain. She was a guest researcher at Leiden University in the Netherlands from September to November 2020. Her Ph.D. thesis, "Amazigh Femin...

Dr. Mariia Levchenko is an award-winning international affairs professional, recognized with the Luxembourg Peace Prize in 2023 for her contributions to peacebuilding. She is also a former Community Solutions Fellow (2017), a Chevening Scholar (2019-2020), and a McCain Institute Leader (2022)....

Temi Mwale is evolving visions for racial equity, community healing and transformative justice. Rooted in the fight for liberation, her work as a community organiser, educator, and artist is an uncompromising commitment to abolition, reparations, and collective care. For over a decade, Temi ha...

A peacebuilder, gender inclusion and social justice advocate, Kay serves as an advisor to Myanmar’s key women’s alliances on women, peace, and security (WPS) providing strategic directions, technical guidance, and tools on integrating gender and inclusion in the design, implementat...

Shadi Rouhshahbaz (she/her) is an Associate Research Fellow at The Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation (ADI). She holds a Double-Joint Masters degree in International Development - Migration and Mediation from the Ca Foscari University of Venice and Paul Valery University...

Sveto Muhammad Ishoq is an award-winning women’s rights activist, a TEDx Speaker, and social entrepreneur from Afghanistan. A true trailblazer in her field, Sveto is dedicated to empowering women economically and changing the "single story" narrative about her home country. Her work on n...

María Dolores Hernández Montoya (Mexico) has worked in program design and implementation with various global organizations to strengthen international and domestic cooperation efforts for urban development and safety. Her work is influenced by the belief that a multi-sectional co...