Meet our Community Advisory Body!
If you’ve been following the development of the Feminist Leadership Hub since the conceptualisation phase in 2022 (maybe you even participated?) until now, you’ll know that in addition to the central topic of Feminist Leadership, we’re also very interested in the question of Feminist Governance.
That’s why last year, we put together a steering committee to support us in thinking through what governance of the Hub could look like from a feminist approach. Thanks to their collaborative work, we have a foundation from which to continue our exploration.
At the same time, the Hub is young! As we write this, it’s still in its pilot phase — though that will change when we launch publicly in the coming weeks. In the spirit of Feminist Leadership, we wanted to remain agile, light on our feet, and open to experimentation. So rather than burden this community and process with an elaborate governance structure while it’s still beginning to blossom, we decided to simply try something out.
That “something” is our first-ever Community Advisory Body. Unlike the Steering Committee, only members of the Hub were eligible to apply. With this group of people, we are diving right into testing what community representation and participation in the Hub’s leadership will look like.
The Community Advisory Body will not only join monthly meetings with One Future Collective and FAIR SHARE, as well as host events for the community between now and November, but they will also collectively produce a resource on Feminist Governance. The format and content are still totally TBD — by them! — and we’re just as excited to see the final result as you are.
So with no further ado, it’s our pleasure to introduce the members of the Community Advisory Body.
Beth Ellen Holimon (Founder of the Hive Collective)
Beth (she/her) is the founder of The Hive Collective which is a consortium of thought leaders and practitioners who apply the concept of adaptive strategic planning for culture change, values-based board governance, and transformational leadership coaching. With 20 years of nonprofit executive experience, she is a seasoned facilitator, trainer, and coach. Beth Ellen hosts The Hive Collective Podcast in which she interviews leaders who share their experiences in sharing and shifting power.
Pinelopi Theodorakakou (Women On Top Co-Founder, entrepreneurial & career coach for girls and women)
Pinelopi (she/her) is the co-founder and Head of Training, Empowerment and Awareness of Women On Top, a non-profit organisation in Greece for the professional and financial development of women and for gender equality in the public sphere, as well as an entrepreneurial & career coach for women and young girls.
She studied Media Studies at the University of Sussex, continued with her postgraduate studies at the Communications & Public Relations Department of the University of Westminster in London and worked for 15 years in the Communication and Public Relations field. Now, as a gender expert and through her role in Women On Top, she is leading the team designing, implementing and monitoring all training, empowerment and gender awareness initiatives.
She is a certified Playing Big as well as a certified Generate Your Business and Start Your Business facilitator by the ILO. She is also a facilitator of workshops on gender issues, social change, the development of social-emotional skills, and female entrepreneurship. Her vision is to support individuals, teams and organisations in the most meaningful and impactful way.
Ana Addobbati — Founder of Livre de Assédio
Ana (she/her) is the founder of Livre de Assédio. She is on a mission to prevent harassment and discrimination in companies and social gathering spaces, using ESG and tech solutions to foster cultural transformation, governance, and compliance. Since 2017, she has impacted more than 480,000 people in Brazil and Latin America, and received recognition as one of the most influential women leaders in the social impact sector, with a key role on advocating for regulations that protect women on those spaces.
She has over six years of experience in leading and managing NGOs and initiatives in the fields of education, technology, and human rights. She also served as a board member at CIVICUS Alliance for the Civil Society, where she promoted diversity and inclusion in organisations and innovation in the funding process.
Tina de los Santos — Community Educator & Gender Equity Advocate
Tina (she/her) is a community organiser, educator, and gender equity advocate. She has dedicated her career to supporting, advising, and delivering for community-based agencies in the nonprofit sector as a consultant, a team member, and as a volunteer. She is currently studying part-time for a Master of Education (MEd) in Adult Education & Community Development, and co-leading a feminist, grass-roots organisation in rural Canada. Her research interests include feminist leadership, shared leadership, and power decentralisation in nonprofit organisational structures and leadership practices.
Ria Ryan — Co-founder of Feminist Hiking Collective
Ria (she/her) is one of the co-founders of Feminist Hiking Collective, a small non-profit organisation that aims to create transformative system change by building collective power and leadership through hiking. FHC are dedicated to building collective feminist leadership through the lens of popular feminist education, as well as research and resource co-creation on its different elements. They have developed transnational and national collaborative projects including organising feminist hiking programmes to facilitate opportunities for marginalised women to get involved in feminist hiking and mountaineering. Their work is also focused on building the collective feminist power of mountain women, and more broadly of all people and communities oppressed by systems of violence and oppression.
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