Fariha Mohamed Razif is a volunteer for BOMOKO NI, The Northern Ireland Refugees and Asylum Seekers Women Association created by and for refugee and asylum seeking women. Bomoko NI emerged in response to the needs of refugee and asylum seeker women living in Northern Ireland. Fariha is one of those women, as a refugee and asylum seeker from Singapore.

Kendall Bousquet is an advocate for gender justice with a professional focus on migrant and refugee women's rights. A native of Houston, Texas, she is currently based in Belfast.

Dr Manal Mahdi Hassan – Manal is a Consultant in the Health Service in Northern Ireland. She has long standing experience of community development with particular reference to the Sudanese Youth Group and working with the Islamic Centre for Northern Ireland. Manal is the Chair of Africa House (NI). Africa House (NI) was established in November 2014 as an initiative which aimed to represent the interests of a number of African diaspora organisations and individuals across Northern Ireland.

Geta Gurklyte is a Disability Rights Activist and Women’s Rights Activist. Greta leads the operational implementation of the Onside project which is a cross border project addressing social isolation.

Christine and Lilia McClements are a mother and daughter campaigning for proper services and inclusion for d/Deaf and disabled children. Both are champions for the inclusion of d/Deaf and disabled children.

Cori Conlon is speaking on behalf of Youth Action NI and she is 21 years old. Cori has always had a love and passion for theatre, music and singing.

She sings with her band “Croí” made up of Cori and her friend Christopher Anderson on guitar. “Cori Conlon Music” has grown a following on Facebook and over 27K views on YouTube.
Cori has a degree in technical theatre, she aims to one day progress to be a professional lighting technician and teach technical theatre with a focus on young women and girls

Karen McShane is a past chair of her Professional Institution in Northern Ireland and was elected to the International Council in 2021. She is a Trans woman living and working in Belfast. She starred in the 2019 Channel 4 documentary “The Making of Me”.

Karen runs a Civil Engineering Consultancy Business in Belfast and works for the NI Govt. body as Associate Adviser for the Strategic Investment Board. Until 2020 she lectured on civil engineering at Queens University Belfast.

She is a board member of The Rainbow Project Belfast and Ulster Touring Opera. Karen is enthusiastic about educating the UK community on Diversity, Inclusion and Trans issues.

Amanda Ferguson is a freelance political and current affairs journalist from north Belfast.

She works as a correspondent for a wide range of media clients including Reuters and The Washington Post. She is also a broadcaster and commentator across local, national and international radio, TV and digital media outlets, as well as being an event host, producer, trainer, consultant, and co-founder of Women in Media Belfast.

Array Collective are a Belfast based group of 11 artists who won the 2021 Turner Prize for their activist art. Their work is deeply political and about our many rights struggles in the North. High on their agenda are the fight for Abortion Rights, Queer Liberation and Women’s equal place in all society and safety on the streets.

Clodagh Lavelle and Jane Butler will speak on behalf of the collective.

Susan McKay is a writer and journalist from Derry. One of the founders of the Belfast Rape Crisis Centre in the early 1980s and an organiser of the first Reclaim the Night March there. She writes extensively about feminist issues especially violence against women, including two books; the biography of a child abuse survivor, and the history of the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre. She was CEO of the National Women’s Council of Ireland from 2009 to 2012. Her most recent book “Northern Protestants - On Shifting Ground” was published by Blackstaff in 2021.