Emilia advances equality and justice in Europe.

Emilia is the founder and executive director of the Center for Intersectional Justice (CIJ), a Berlin-based organization advancing justice, equality and a life free of systemic oppression for all. She is faculty member of the Social Justice Study Abroad Program of DePaul University of Chicago and has taught graduate and post-graduate courses on Intersectionality Theory, Postcolonial Studies, Critical Race Theory and International and European Law.

Emilia has worked extensively on Human Rights issues at the UN in Tanzania and Uganda, at the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) in Cambodia, and at Amnesty International in Germany. She holds a PhD in political science, a Master of Public Policy and an MBA. She is Jury member of the German Non-Fiction Book Prize 2020, was in the Jury of the 25 Women Award of Edition F in 2019, and was appointed as external expert at the European Commission in 2019.

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