Our Team

Her focus lies on networking and cooperation between civil society organisations, activists, and networks. She also works as an educational trainer, making the connection between migration and colonial continuities. In the board, Lina represents Blindspots, an organisation giving direct support to displaced people in areas of political crisis. The queer-feminist approach, the self-critical attitude, and the collaborative work in a culturally diverse team are Lina’s favorite parts of being a member of the Fund.

Since then, she has engaged in grassroots organising for street vendors’ rights in Barcelona, especially supporting her fellow Black migrant community. She is responsible for external financing at Top Manta, a clothing brand and store founded by undocumented African migrants to create job opportunities, promote the regularisation of migratory status, and rebelliously reclaim the othering Spanish term of manteros for street vendors. Maria holds a postgraduate degree in social economy business management from the UPF Mataró technocampus.

Yusra is a volunteer-run space providing direct support with displaced communities living in Istanbul, while Inshira is a feminist safe(r) space for those identifying as women from displaced communities. Shahla actively dedicates herself to solidarity work in the Southwest Asia and North African region and her primary focus revolves around displacement, human rights, child protection, and emergency education. Shahla is also a former documentary filmmaker and journalist. She values that the Fund offers women and gender non-binary activists a space to collaboratively foster justice for displaced communities.

Her main thematic focuses include border externalisation policies by the EU, the role of the border control agency Frontex, and activating civil society’s solidarity. As part of Balkan Brücke, Pauline advocates against the human rights abuses along the so-called Balkan route, fosters connections between different civil society groups, and offers direct support to local communities. During her academic journey, she has led tutorials and conducted research on the human rights consequences of EU externalisation policies in Serbia.

She has worked with migrant-led initiatives in the Greek islands and the Balkans. She currently consults on advocacy and communication for Grupa Granica, an umbrella movement that brings together organisations, aid workers, local community members, and activists in response to the increasingly dire conditions at the Polish-Belarussian border, in particular in the Bialowieza primeval forest. She is a fierce advocate for animal and environmental rights. In her spare time she enjoys long walks in nature with her 2 rescue dogs.