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President & Co-Chair

Anbid is a 25-year-old activist who started their voluntary service in advocating for LGBTQIA+ human rights at age sixteen in Bangladesh while working for the first-ever LGBTIQ magazine in their country of origin. They’ve lived in Cologne since 2016 due to their personal security. Anbid is serving on the executive board of Aktionsbündnis gegen Homophobie e. V. and is an executive board member at Cologne Pride. They are an active member of the Global Queer Youth Network and European Queer Asylum Network. Anbid is also serving their second mandate in representing LGBTIQA+ youth from the European and Central Asian Region to the ILGA World Youth Steering Committee.

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Secretary & Co-Chair

Bella is the CEO of ShoutOut; an LGBTQ+ education charity in Ireland. As ShoutOut’s first staff member, Bella has overseen the growth of the organization which now reaches 12,000 young people a year. Passionate about education and inclusive schooling, Bella develops educational programmes which promote LGBTQ+ inclusion with parents/guardians, students, and teachers. Bella has also worked with OutRight Action International on research and advocacy. She enjoys knitting.

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Treasurer & Co-Chair

Originally from Argentina, Graciela is a life-long learner, advocate and ally, Professor of Inclusive Education and the Founding Dean (2014-2016) of the School of Education at Arcadia University, in Pennsylvania, USA. Her work and passions are rooted in her commitment to justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion. To her, this work is personal, professional, and political. Two decades ago, Graciela started the process of un-learning and continuing to learn and develop new understandings on gender and sexual diversity as a parent and a teacher educator. Since then, she has used her multiple platforms and privileges to uplift, magnify, affirm, and celebrate the voices and experiences of queer individuals and communities. Her approach is rooted on embracing this work from an intersectional stance, keeping core and center the ways that queer experiences are shaped by individual, interpersonal, and systemic systems of discrimination, oppression, exclusion, erasure, silence, and violence based on race, ethnicity, disability, mental health, language, country of origin and residency, religion, social class, housing condition, access to social and health benefits, among others. She is a published author, has delivered multiple keynote addresses, and received several honors and awards, most recently, the Arcadia's Cultural Ally; the Champion of Social Justice, by the Parent Education & Advocacy Leadership; and the Patricia J. Creegan Excellence Award in Inclusive Education, by the Pennsylvania’s Education for All Coalition.

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Co-Chair

Nada is the Human Rights Campaign Advisor at Manushya Foundation and serves as the LGBTI focal point of the Thai BHR Network and Thai CSOs Coalition for the UPR. She also acts as a Senior Advisor on Law, Human Rights and Equality to the Board of RSAT (Rainbow Sky Association of Thailand). Nada strongly believes in community empowerment for achieving social justice and has worked as a transgender rights activist since 2006. Her experience and expertise in the human rights field include: LGBTI rights, gender equality, business and human rights, sexual health, and media advocacy, at national and international levels. In 2019, she was awarded the Chevening Scholarship of the UK Government and holds a L.L.M. in International Human Rights Law from the Faculty of Law at the University of Essex, UK.

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Co-Chair

Timo is a Lecturer at the Faculty of Learning Sciences and Education, Thammasat University, and he's also involved in Thailand's LGBTIQ+ rights movement. He received an MSc in Counseling Psychology from Assumption University and a PhD in Social Sciences and Health from Mahidol University. His primary research interest is on LGBTIQ+ mental health and ensuring the availability of services that meet the needs of LGBTIQ+ clients, but he has been involved in diverse research studies related to educational and health issues affecting LGBTIQ+ people, for example on anti-LGBT bullying or sexuality education in Thailand.