Writers

Oiwan Lam

Regional Editor for Northeast Asia at Global Voices. A media activist, researcher and educator currently based in Hong Kong. My Twitter account is @oiwan and personal views are published on: patreon.com/oiwan.

Rezwan

Rezwan is from Dhaka, Bangladesh and has been blogging at The 3rd world view since 2003. He has been bridge-blogging the Bangladeshi and South Asian blogosphere in Global Voices since 2005. As the translator coordinator for the Global… Read more…

Rebecca Ryakitimbo

Rebecca is a techie, writer and researcher. She is currently a community engagement fellow at Mozilla, working towards building an open voice dataset in Kiswahili to promote voice technology. She is working on establishing and… Read more…

Mariana Tamari

Mariana Tamari is a journalist and researcher working at the intersection of politics, feminisms, technology and socio-environmental justice. A founding partner of Agência Mira, a strategic political communications consultancy, she… Read more…

Hija Kamran

Hija Kamran (she/her) is the Advocacy Strategist within APC's Women's Rights Programme, and the Lead Editor of GenderIT. She is a digital rights advocate, and brings over a decade-long experience of working on key policy and human… Read more…

Daria Dergacheva

Daria Dergacheva is a researcher in media and communication, her focus is platform and AI governance, digital authoritarianism and propaganda/disinformation studies.  She has a background in journalism, and is currently an editor for… Read more…

Kira Xonorika

Kira Xonorika is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher and writer. Their work focuses on the complexities of trauma and colonial power, pathologisation, trans and queer temporalities, the production of knowledge from the Global South… Read more…

Anmol Irfan

Anmol is a Muslim-Pakistani journalist and the Founder of Perspective Magazine. Her work focuses mainly on global gender justice, media representation and climate. She aims to amplify marginalised narratives across the globe… Read more…

Mardiya Siba Yahaya

Mardiya Siba Yahaya is a feminist digital sociologist, researcher and community movement builder whose work extensively investigates the implications of technology surveillance and datafied societies on minoritised genders and communities… Read more…

Melissa Maldonado-Salcedo

Melissa Maldonado-Salcedo is an artist, anthropologist, and writer. She has taught at the Tandon School of Engineering at NYU since 2013, focusing on the intersections of culture, STEM, and identity. She lives in Brooklyn, New York,… Read more…

Pamilerin Samuel

Pamilerin Samuel is a writer whose work focuses on culture, media, and social issues. Their writing examines how power, identity, and everyday life intersect, with an emphasis on underreported stories and careful, human centered… Read more…

Jacqueline Valledor Lucero

Jacqueline Valledor Lucero is a Climate Reality Leader under the mentorship of former U.S. Vice President Al Gore. She is passionate about culture, storytelling, and social justice, exploring how climate disasters intersect with gender… Read more…

Aida Namukose

Aida is a photographer and pan-african feminist driven by the belief that stories and narratives have the power to shift attitudes and shape culture. She is passionate about human rights for all, nature-based sustainable… Read more…

Aida Naxhielly

Mixtec woman, ña’a davi. Writer and facilitator working on communicative and audiovisual processes from a community-based, antiracist and antipatriarchal approach. She’s currently part of La Sandía Digital, Colectivo Juvenil… Read more…

Ayesha Aslam

Ayesha Aslam es una autora pakistaní que aborda asuntos sociales, temas de género y otros tópicos. Cuando no está escribiendo, está andando en bicicleta por ahí. Su cuenta de Instagram es @thatcrazycyclist.

Palestinian human rights defender

The author is a Palestinian lawyer and human rights defender who works with the international law unit at a Palestinian human rights organisation based in the West Bank. She holds a Master’s degree in public international law, and… Read more…

Florencia Goldsman

Licenciada en comunicación de la Universidad de Buenos Aires, e integrante del grupo de investigación en Ciberculturas y Géneros Gig@ de la Universidad Federal de Bahía (Brasil). Periodista, bailarina amateur y ciclista por opción.

Ha'åni Lucia Falo San Nicolas

Ha’åni Lucia Falo San Nicolas es una hija de los pueblos CHamoru y samoano, poeta-investigadora, activista y educadora de la isla de Guåhan. Es candidata doctoral en Política Indígena en la Universidad de Hawái en Mānoa, y en… Read more…