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Oiza Queens Day Obasuyi
Oiza Queens Day Obasuyi is a scholar of human rights, migration, Afro-descendant diasporas, and systemic racism. She is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Bologna, conducting research on the role of the 2020 Black Lives Matter mobilizations in creating new cultural and political spaces for Afro-descendant communities in Italy.
#9
Dario Salvetti
Dario Salvetti, a metalworker and FIOM union representative, is a member of the Factory Collective of the former GKN plant in Campi Bisenzio, founded in 2017 and made up of workers in permanent assembly within the factory. He is one of the main promoters of the permanent public assembly and the “Insorgiamo” movement, which has mobilized thousands of people across Italy, turning a labor dispute into a widespread social struggle against precarity, outsourcing, and the environmental crisis.
#8
Claudia Fauzia
Claudia Fauzia is a gender studies expert, educator, and advocate of Southern feminism (femminismo terrone). After earning a degree in economics, engaging in activism in Colombia, and studying gender in Bologna, Claudia developed a path that intertwines feminism, anti-Southern discrimination, and social justice, giving rise to the concept of “Southern feminism”.
#7
Francesco Piobbichi
Francesco Piobbichi is a social worker, activist, and illustrator committed to narrating and transforming the dynamics of borders, particularly the Mediterranean one. His Drawings from the Border, created in Lampedusa during his work with the Mediterranean Hope project, are a form of narrative resistance and an alternative to the dominant — often pornographic — representation of suffering and migration tragedies.
#6
Giovanni Mori
Giovanni Mori is an environmental engineer, science communicator, and climate activist. He holds a Master’s in Energy Engineering – earned between Trento, Bolzano, and the Polytechnic of Lausanne. He hosts the podcast News from Planet Earth for LifeGate, was part of Fridays for Future Italia, and ran as an independent candidate in the European Parliament elections for the Greens and Left Alliance. Although he narrowly missed being elected, he continues to inform, mobilize, and travel across Italy.
#5
Viola Carofalo
Viola Carofalo has always been active in the radical left and deeply involved in the world of social centers. Since 2005, she has been part of the political collective of the Ex OPG Je so' pazzo in Naples and was the spokesperson for the political movement Power to the People (Potere al Popolo) from its founding in 2017 until 2021. Today, she teaches Moral Philosophy at the University of Naples "L’Orientale."
#4
Alice Pomiato
Alice Pomiato is an educator, trainer, and content creator focused on sustainability. A vegan and antispeciesist with an intersectional approach, she currently runs the Instagram page Aliceful, where she explores (more) sustainable and conscious life paths, consumption, and active citizenship.
#3
Nogaye Ndiaye
Nogaye Ndiaye is a legal scholar, writer, and educator on human rights issues. During her university years, Nogaye launched the Instagram page Le regole del diritto perfetto ("The Rules of Perfect Law"), a space for sharing both individual and collective issues, which became a safe environment to reflect and speak on topics such as feminism, racism, neocolonialism, privilege, and much more.
#2
Simone
Ficicchia
Simone Ficicchia is a musician and activist with the Ultima Generazione (Last Generation) organization, a civil disobedience campaign born in 2021 to demand a permanent and preventive fund of 20 billion euros from the Italian government to repair the damages caused by climate disasters.
#1
Francesca Albanese
Francesca Albanese is an international lawyer, Italian academic, and, since May 1st, 2022, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories. She is the first woman in thirty years to hold this unpaid position and, from the beginning, has decided to turn it into a public role by making the contents of the United Nations accessible to ordinary people, because “human rights either belong to the people or they are useless.”
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