Dr. Wanjiru Kamau-Rutenberg is the Founder and Executive Director of Black Women in Executive Leadership (B-WEL). B-WEL centers insights from Black women’s experiences to strengthen, diversify, and connect leaders and innovative solutions available to solve the world’s most pressing challenges.

Gesiye is an interdisciplinary artist based in Trinidad and Tobago. Rooted in curiosity about the impacts of colonialism on our relationships with self, state and land, Gesiye’s approach is experimental, often leading to conceptual work that takes form through different mediums including film, tattooing, animation and performance.

Lía Zevallos is a part of Ashanti Perú, the Peruvian Network of Afro-descendant Youth. This is an organization that works for the empowerment of young people, specifically Afro-Peruvian women, around their individual and collective rights. They also support young Afro-Peruvian women to participate in social and political work to construct of a solid, sustainable citizenship that contributes to eradicate discrimination and racism here.

Jhannel Tomlinson-Evans is honored to hold the role of co-founder at GirlsCARE Jamaica and Young People for Action on Climate Change (YPACC) in Jamaica. Additionally, Jhannel proudly serves as a committee member within Global Fund for Women’s Caribbean Feminist MLA Committee and as the Caribbean Advisor for the Global Green Grant Fund’s Next Generation Climate Board.