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It’s a big moment of change for us: Equinox has a new board! 🌊🌊

After 5 years, our brilliant co-founders, Alfiaz Vaiya and Claire Gilder, are stepping down from Equinox’s board. Thank you, Claire and Alfiaz, for all you have done to love, dream and build up this organisation from the ground up. Five years ago, Equinox was created from joy, friendship and care. We are so grateful to you – but we know you’ll stay with us in new and exciting ways.

We’re thrilled to announce our new board members, divya iyer, Pamela Valenti, and xeenarh Mohammed. They will be joining Myriam Douo on the Equinox board. These amazing leaders have wide experience in feminist leadership, strategic campaigning, and coalition-building. 

As Equinox’s new board, they will guide us towards building more resilient organisational structures, relational practice and advise us as we continue to grow.

Meet the team

xeenarh Mohammed is a writer, researcher, human rights practitioner, and organisational leader with over a decade of experience working across human rights, gender justice, digital rights, and feminist movements. xeenarh has extensive experience in organisational leadership, strategy development, programme management, fundraising, coalition building, and people management. Her work has involved managing international partnerships, geographically distributed teams, complex programmes, budgets, and relationships with funders and civil society organisations. Her work is grounded in feminist practice, intersectionality, collective leadership, and a commitment to strengthening organisations and movements to achieve sustainable social change.

divya iyer is a feminist leader and change strategist with over 20 years of experience advancing human rights, crisis response, and global advocacy across South Asia, Africa, SWANA, Europe, and the United States. Throughout her career, she has worked to build solidarity and strategy across movements for racial, gender, and economic justice, connecting grassroots activism with political advocacy and centring the leadership of affected communities. She is the Director of Advocacy and Communications at Prospera International Network of Women’s and Feminist Funds, where she serves on the Executive Team. She joins the Equinox board with a genuine commitment to its politics and a conviction that structural change demands both rigorous analysis and the humility to keep learning. 

Pamela Valenti has 15 years of experience in EU policy advocacy, campaigning and grantmaking in Brussels, focusing on human rights, democracy and social justice. She is currently a Political Campaigner on Tech at Greenpeace EU, having previously served as interim Head of Policy at European Digital Rights (EDRi) and Director of Policy and Campaigns at People vs Big Tech. For nearly a decade, she was Program Manager at the Open Society Foundations (OSF), where she supported civil society organisations and movements working on AI and social justice across Europe through grantmaking, advocacy advice, coalition building and capacity development. Having also served as Trade Union Delegate for OSF Brussels, Pamela brings hands-on expertise in people management, collective organising and Belgian labour law.