Helena Dalli is the first EU Commissioner for Equality since December 2019. Her role is to deliver on the Union of Equality chapter within the Political Guidelines of President von der Leyen, by strengthening Europe’s commitment to equality and inclusion in all of its senses.
Prior to taking her role as Commissioner, Dalli held various political roles in Malta including Member of Parliament (1996 to 2019), Minister for European Affairs and Equality (2017 to 2019), and Minister for Social Dialogue, Consumer Affairs and Civil Liberties (2013-2017). She was also opposition Shadow Minister for public administration, equality, public broadcasting and national investments (1998-2013) and Junior Minister for Women's Rights in the Office of Prime Minister (1996-1998). Dalli holds a PhD in Political Sociology from the University of Nottingham, and lectured in Economic and Political Sociology, Public Policy, and Sociology of Law at the University of Malta.

Terry Reintke is vice-president of the Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament and the group's coordinator for the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs. She is co-president of the LGBTI Intergroup and founder of the EU-UK Friendship Group.
Terry Reintke studied political science in Berlin and Edinburgh. She was spokesperson of the Federation of Young European Greens (FYEG) before entering the European Parliament in 2014. Terry Reintke was featured in TIME magazines coverage for Person of the Year 2017 as part of the “Silence Breakers” speaking out against sexual abuse and harassment.

Leo is a trans activist and psychologist. He works to advance trans rights in politics at Transgender Europe. Leo has experience in local and national activism in Spain, as well as teaching, training, and supporting young trans people and their families.

Ex-vicepresidenta de la Republica de Costa Rica y actual Embajadora de la República de Costa Rica en España, ha sido una defensora consistente de los Derechos Humanos en su trayectoria política. Como Vicepresidenta de la Republica, firmó y defendió la Consulta que el Estado de Costa Rica le realizó a la Corte IDH sobre los derechos de las parejas del mismo sexo y las personas trans, con la intención de crear mayor seguridad jurídica en la región. En el 2015, impulsó la Política Pública para la Inclusión y la No Discriminación hacia las personas LGBTI, que declaró al Poder Ejecutivo libre de toda discriminación hacia las personas LGBTI. Esta política ha permitido que a estudiantes trans se les reconozca su identidad de género en el Ministerio de Educación Pública y en el Instituto Nacional de Aprendizaje. Además, ante Instituto Mixto de Ayuda Social y el Sistema Único de Beneficiarios, las parejas del mismo sexo serán registradas como familia y las personas trans, según su identidad de género.

En su trabajo legislativo impulsó proyectos de ley para parejas del mismo sexo, así también como iniciativas de ley sobre salud sexual y reproductiva y una política integral en materia de VIH/SIDA. Como Viceministra de Seguridad desarrolló protocolos de atención para la población LGBTI y procesos de capacitación para el cuerpo policial. Anteriormente, fue comisionada de la Comisión Global sobre HIV y la Ley, Programa de Desarrollo de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas.

Executive co-director of ERA – LGBTI Equal
Rights Association for Western Balkans and Turkey and a member of the Executive Board of ILGA - Europe. She has been for 10 years now involved in different types of work and activities related to human rights and gender equality, with focus on LGBTI rights. Before taking up the role of the executive co-director of ERA in 2015, she has been a policy and advocacy advisor, and regional cooperation manager for LABRIS – Lesbian Human Rights Organisation from Serbia, as well as a research and policy advisor for the Serbian Gender Equality Institute.

Gay, casado y padre de un adolescente de 17 años. Socio fundador (2005) de GALEHI, asociación de familias homoparentales y primer presidente durante 4 años. Actualmente aun trabajando en la junta directiva.
Miembro de la Junta directiva de NELFA, la Red de Familias LGBTIQ+ Europea (17 países y 29 asociaciones).
"Chairman" del European Pride ERG, de la multinacional CUMMINS en la que trabajo. Coordinando las políticas LGBTIQ+ de mi empresa en Europa.
Activista en la lucha por la defensa de los derechos de las personas LGBTIQ+, sus familias y firme defensor de la gestación subrogada.

With a degree in social education, Uge Sangil has been working for 21 years for the public administration on the island of Tenerife, in a center for people with mental and physical disabilities. In 2005 she joined the FELGTB from her reference association Algarabía, of which she was founder and president for eight years. In 2012, she began coordinating the education group in the Federation and three years later became the group’s spokesperson. She is currently the President of the State Federation of Lesbians, Gays, Trans and Bisexuals and has been since April 16, 2018.

Carmen has been a volunteer and coordinator in the TransCogam group since 2017. She believes in gender equality and human rights that all LGBT+ people have, not only in words but also in deeds. Divorced and with two children, Carmen is a native of Valdepeñas, Ciudad Real.

She has a degree in law from the UNED, as well as in nursing from the Complutense University and superior technique in cccupational risk prevention from the Carlos III University.

Kristine Garina (she/her) was born and raised in Riga, Latvia. She is one of the founders of Association of LGBT and their friends MOZAIKA, the only LGBT organisation in Latvia. She studied economics at the University of Latvia and the Institute of International Affairs of the University of Latvia and for many years worked in private business. After the first pride in Riga, Latvia in 2005 she joined LGBT rights movement and together with like-minded people started MOZAIKA. She is an LGBT rights activist with 15 years experience in organising prides in hostile and homophobic environments and in security of prides and human rights defenders working with such organisations as Amnesty International and ILGA-Europe. Kristine was a co-chair of EuroPride 2015 in Riga and following that was elected to lead European Pride Organisers Association (EPOA). She is one of the three co-chairs of Global Pride 2020.

Responsable de diversidad afectivo-sexual de Amnistía Internacional España, lleva vinculado a esta organización desde 2009, ocupando también labores relacionadas con educación e infancia. Durante todo este periodo ha coordinado diversas campañas LGBTI de Amnistía Internacional, entre ellas lograr la no aprobación del código penal de Uganda, que planteaba pena de muerte para personas homosexuales, juzgar a las personas responsables de las violaciones de derechos humanos a personas gais y lesbianas en Chechenia o lograr la liberación de condenados a pena de muerte en Irán por ser homosexuales.

Hombre transgénero activista en El Salvador y defensor de los Derechos Humanos de la población LGBTI en este país. Está a cargo del área de comunicaciones de la Asociación Comunicando y Capacitando a Mujeres Trans con y sin VIH: COMCAVIS TRANS.

Su trabajo está centrado en promover la protección de las personas LGBTI en condiciones de vulnerabilidad como privadas de la libertad, migrantes, desplazadas por la violencia y personas LGBTI de comunidades.

Actualmente lidera desde COMCAVIS TRANS la información proveída de El Salvador para el Sistema de información de homicidios de personas LGBT en América Latina y el Caribe.

Activista por los derechos LGTBTTTI Muxe de la población de Santiago Niltepec Oaxaca, México. Tierra del oro azul "añil".
Ex directora de políticas públicas para la diversidad sexual en el periodo 2017-2018 en Palacio Municipal de Santiago Niltepec Oax.
Formó parte del proyecto transformandome por la Fundación Elton John.
Presidenta de la Sociedad Vela Muxe "Añileras" diversidad sexual.
Voluntaria en apoyo comunitario por parte de la Fundación Origen e International Medical Corps, primeros auxilios psicológicos.
Participación en incidencia política de jovenes LGTBTTTI con la fundación Arcoiris.
Participación en documentales Muxes - Dw Alemania - entre otros.

En un intento de dedicarme a lo que me hace feliz, soy activista por los derechos de las personas LGTBI, Presidenta de Galehi, miembro del Grupo de Familias de FELGTB y escritora de relatos, de artículos, de guiones de cortometrajes y soñadora de una novela que lleva en mi mente demasiado tiempo. Un trozo de mi alma se va con cada texto a Revista MiraLES, Revista Oveja Rosa y al blog LGTB '1 de cada 10' de 20minutos.es<http://20minutos.es>. Apasionada por el saber, cada vez me doy cuenta de que sé menos y eso me frustra y me ilusiona a partes iguales. Deconstruida y vuelta a construir una y otra vez. Madre, hija, tía, hermana y lesbiana en proceso de romper etiquetas.

Cláudia Pereira has a PhD in anthropology from ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa and did her post-doctoral studies in sociology in the same university.
She is a member of the Sociology Research and Studies Centre and was executive coordinator of the Emigration Observatory from 2017 to 2019. The Emigration Observatory has been responsible for the Statistical Report on Portuguese Emigration, produced annually for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Cláudia Pereira conducted research on the financial crisis and qualified Portuguese emigration to London and published the book "Broken Lives. Portuguese Nurses Abroad". She previously produced qualitative and ethnographic research in Goa, India, on Catholic and Hindu castes and tribes.
She coordinated a project on Nepalese immigration in agriculture in Portugal and labour exploitation in the Audax IUL entrepreneurship centre, financed by the High Commissioner for Migration.
She was director of the Post-Graduation in Humanitarian Action at ISCTE-IUL and a representative of CIES-IUL at IMISCOE, a network of excellence of migration researchers and co-coordinated the Migra Network, an international network of researchers and those responsible for public migration policies.
She has been working as a migration specialist on capacity building projects for governments of countries outside Europe, funded by the European Commission (EC). She is an evaluator of European projects, funded by the EC, on migration. Among other publications, she co-organized the book "New and Old Routes of Portuguese Emigration. Uncertain Futures at the Periphery of Europe".
Her projects have prioritised the communication to the media and civil society as well as cooperation with governmental and non-governmental bodies.

Alessandro Di Rosa is International PhD in Advanced Studies in Human Rights at Carlos III University of Madrid and in Legal Science - Philosophy of Law at University of Parma. He is a researcher and human rights project manager at IDHBC (Instituto de Derechos Humanos “Bartolomé de las Casas”) and at CRID (Centro di Ricerca Interdipartimentale su Discriminazioni e vulnerabilità). He is an activist of the Sexual and Gender Diversity Team at Amnesty International Spain and of the Task Force Hate Speech at Amnesty International Italy and did an internship at the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) at the Anti-Racial Discrimination Section. His research addresses equality and non-discrimination, freedom of expression and hate speech. He is author of the book Hate speech e discriminazione. Un'analisi performativa tra diritti umani e teorie della libertà, Mucchi, Modena, 2020 and of some other articles in peer-reviewed journals.

Inspired by her personal experiences of border agencies, alien courts and deportation, Darienne has worked as an international activist for LGBT rights for over 20 years. During that time she has contributed to judicial reviews on same-sex immigration laws, was a founder member of the Stonewall Immigration Group (now UKLGIG) and has steered a raft of equality issues through the LGBT and Womens self-organised structures of UNISON.
Darienne is a senior lay activist in the biggest public service trade union in the UK, UNISON. She is currently Co-Chair of UNISON's National LGBT+ Committee and has represented LGBT workers interests on UNISON's National Womens Committee. She works in local government where she is committed to challenging discrimination in all of its forms as well as negotiating on equality for all workers.
A tireless advocate and communicator, she has given presentations and workshops in numerous countries in the cause of advancing LGBT equality, encouraging and facilitating partnership work with trade unions as well as promoting self-organisation and determination. She has also been involved with a range of related activisms to highlight injustices and combat prejudices over many years.

A graduate of Political and Administration Sciences from the Complutense University of Madrid, Marta is a career diplomat and has worked at the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation and at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the European Union and Cooperation (MAUEC). She has been assigned as Second Headquarters at the Spanish Embassies in Jamaica and Namibia. Currently, she is part of the MAUEC Human Rights Office team, where she deals with various thematic areas (non-discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, rights of children and youth) and geographic areas (monitoring of the situation of human rights in Europe and North America).

Mark has developed, worked and held positions as board member of CSD Zürich and member of the organising committee of Zurich Pride Festival; Co-organizer and responsible for the 2007 InterPride World Conference in Zurich; Board member of EuroPride 09 Zurich; Former Co-President of InterPride – International Association of LGBTI Pride Organizers and former President of EPOA – European Pride Organisers Association; Designer of the website «History of Gays in Switzerland».

Kimahli has a wide range of experience in the not-for-profit sector and has spent more than 20 years advocating for social justice, youth, and arts and culture. Prior to Rainbow Railroad, he held numerous director-level positions at organizations including the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, Dignitas International, Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film Festival and the YMCA.

Kimahli holds a CFRE and completed his undergraduate studies in Political Science at the University of Ottawa. He holds an Honorary Doctor of Laws from the University of Victoria. Among his career highlights, Kimahli helped launch the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network's legal challenge to Jamaica's anti-sodomy law and developed a monitoring and evaluation framework on legal advocacy. Since joining Rainbow Railroad as Executive Director, he has led the organization through transformational growth, which has resulted in successful interventions in Chechnya and Egypt. Kimahli and Rainbow Railroad have been recognized with several awards, including the International Lesbian & Gay Travel Association’s Pathfinder Award, the Mark S Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies’ 2018 Award, and the 2018 Inspire Award for Community Organization of the Year.

Kimahli was the 2019 recipient of the Steinert & Ferreiro Award and was listed in Out Magazine’s Out 100 profile of influential LGBT people.

Oficial de Protección Adjunto en la Oficina de ACNUR en España. Licenciado en Derecho.
Trabaja para el ACNUR desde 1998.
Focal Point para cuestiones relacionadas con el colectivo LGTBI en la Oficina de ACNUR en
España. Impulsa estrategias dirigidas a establecer o reforzar buenas prácticas en el en
sistema de protección internacional español. Tanto en el marco del procedimiento, como en
la acogida y la integración de solicitantes y personas refugiadas LGTBI. Participa
activamente en formaciones, proyectos y grupos de apoyo de solicitantes de protección
LGTBI dirigidos a generar redes y empoderamiento. Es el responsable del Grupo de Trabajo
de solicitantes y personas refugiadas LGTBI que coordina ACNUR en España desde 2016,
del que forman parte instituciones y sociedad civil.

Savi nació en Binefar un pueblo de la provincia de Huesca allí hace 6 años con otros activistas nació el colectivo La Litera LGTBI pionero en la provincia,2 años después pasó a denominarse HU-ENTIENDE LGTB+, he sido presidente y actualmente soy el responsable de prensa y redes sociales. Me forme como educador social en ETS impartiendo charlas para centros educativos y mayores en materia LGTBI. Actualmente llevo el proyecto de casas rurales para personas mayores LGTBI en la provincia de Huesca.

Mi trabajo como activista trans en El Salvador surgió a principios de los años 90, momento en el que las personas LGBTI, a diferencia del resto de la población, se enfrentaban a grandes desafíos legales, sanitarios, políticos, sociales y culturales. Junto con otras personas, en 1996 fundamos la primera Asociación trans en El Salvador con el objetivo de abogar por el cumplimiento los Derechos Humanos de las personas TRANS con los gobiernos, instituciones
internacionales y la sociedad. En pocos meses logramos que la asociación fuera legalizada y fuera tomando fuerza, hasta ser reconocida nacional e internacionalmente.
En 2008 fundé una segunda Asociación llamada “Comunicando y Capacitando a mujeres trans con o sin VIH” (COMCAVIS TRANS) cuyo objetivo es velar, promover, defender e incidir en el cumplimiento de los derechos humanos de las personas TRANS. Fue fundamentalmente a partir de entonces cuando, como representante de esta organización se me brinda la oportunidad de ejercer un trabajo de incidencia política pública a nivel nacional e internacional,
tanto en la región de Centro América como en el conjunto de América Latina y a nivel global.
En 2017 recibí la nominación, y fui elegida finalista del Premio Martin Ennals de Derechos Humanos.
Actualmente resido en Suiza, país donde fui reconocida como refugiada política y continúo mi trabajo como activista, participando de manera permanente en los diferentes mecanismos de Naciones Unidas, y brindando apoyo a diferentes organizaciones de la región latinoamericana.

Bianka Rodríguez is a transfeminist human rights defender in El Salvador. Since 2017, she has overseen the NGO COMCAVIS TRANS, an organization that works to promote, defend and demand compliance with the human rights of LGBTI people in El Salvador. Her vision for the future is to continue empowering new trans leaders, for the construction of key agendas for the trans movement and the demand for their rights in strategic spaces. She is currently part of the ILGALAC 2019-2021 Regional Council. In 2019 she was elected as General Secretary of the Salvadoran LGBTI Federation. She is also a member of the ONUMUJERES Civil Society Advisory Group in El Salvador, the Executive Secretariat of the Civil Society Committee against Forced Displacement, and a member of the Salvadoran Network of Women Human Rights Defenders.
Her career as an advocate has been recognized as a regional winner for the Americas of the Nansen Refugee award in 2019 for her work with the LGBTI population forcibly displaced by violence and refugees in El Salvador and the region.

Camila Garfias studied Sociology and Economics in Vienna and works for the federal railway company of Austria (ÖBB). She started her political activism within the socialist pupils organisation AKS, before getting involved at the socialist students of Austria, VSStÖ. From 2014 to 2016 she was president of the student’s union at the university of Vienna and later international secretary of VSStÖ. Since 2017 she is active in SoHo Austria, taking the role of international secretary. Since October 2018 she is President of Rainbow Rose.

Danilo heads the organization Diálogo Diverso, which works towards the promotion, guarantee and defense of human rights, with an emphasis on LGBTI people, gender and democracy. He produces “Dialogando Ando”, an alternative communication platform for YouTube and Facebook that promotes youth leaders and leaders on social issues in Latin America. He is also coordinator of the Youth Rights Agenda of the Metropolitan District of Quito and has been a global representative of LGBTIQ + people for the Habitat III - United Nations Conference.

Lawyer (Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, Caracas, Venezuela, graduated with summa cum laude honors), Doctor of Law (University Paris 2, France, graduated with honors Très Bien), University professor of undergraduate, postgraduate and doctorate (UCAB and UCV, Caracas , Venezuela). Guest professor at various foreign universities in Latin America and Europe.
Author of numerous articles related to sexual diversity, particularly the situation of transsexual people. Transsexual woman, lesbian. National and international activist in the field of women's human rights, sexual diversity and trans people. First trans woman elected as National Deputy in Latin America (National Assembly of Venezuela).
Since 2013 she is the world President of the Committee for the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Intersexophobia and Transphobia IDAHOBIT.
She is a member of the Board of Directors of WPATH (World Professional Association for Transgender Health); GATE (Global Association for Gender Identity) and PLAFAM (Venezuelan Association for Family Planning).

Muxhe, zapoteca del istmo de Tehuantepec, Oaxaca. Activista social desde hace más de 20 años en el ámbito local, regional e internacional en áreas de trabajo de salud, la sexualidad, los derechos humanos y la promoción cultural. Primera Candidata Muxhe/trans a diputada federal uni y plurinominal por el ex partido Mexico Posible, reconocida por el Instituto Federal Electoral. Secretaria Regional del Secretariado Internacional para Pueblos indígenas ante el vih, la Sexualidad y los Derechos Humanos (SIPIA). Ex secretaria regional muxhe/trasn de la ILGA-LAC, para América Latina y el Caribe (2014-2016). 
Ex co-directora del Fondo Internacional para personas Trans (2014-2017). Ex secretaria técnica del Primer Consejo Municipal contra la Discrimina- ción en Xalapa, Veracruz (2016-2017). 
Actual asambleísta ciudadana del Consejo Nacional para Prevenir y Eliminar la Discriminación (CONAPRED).

Jurista (Protección Internacional, Violencia de Género y Derecho Penal)

Abogada especialista en protección internacional, violencia de género y derecho penal. Actualmente es instructora en la Oficina de Asilo y Refugio de España

Defensora de derechos humanos,
transfeminista, psicóloga y maestrante en “Género y Desarrollo” en la FLACSO de Ecuador. Es la fundadora de varias organizaciones en su país, como la Asociación Silueta X y la Cámara LGBT de Comercio Ecuador.
Actualmente, es Presidenta de la Federación Nacional de Organizaciones LGBT.
Con el fin de impulsar la participación política de las poblaciones LGBT, en 2017 fue elegida como la primera Asambleísta abiertamente trans.
Ha desarrollado otras campañas como: la persecución y cierre de las clínicas de deshomosexualización, el reconocimiento de la Unión Civil de Homosexuales, la demanda legal contra un canal de televisión por apología de la discriminación LGBT y La Ley de Género en la Cédula para trans.