Our Coalitions

We do deep coalition-building as a strategy for structural change. We connect grassroots activism with political advocacy, centring work led by affected communities.

Our work is guided by a steering group of activists from racial, gender, queer and global justice movements across Europe. We engage with a collective working model, working with each member on a spefic goal.

In 2025, we’re ravamping our SG. Watch out for more!

Adla Shashati

Adla Shashati is the Director of the Greek Forum of Migrants. She holds a BA in Media and Cultural Studies and a postgraduate diploma in New Media Technologies. She is a member of the Hellenic Sudanese Friendship league and the Sudanese Community in Greece and has many years of experience in migration issues and the fight against racism and xenophobia at a national and European level.

Passionate about social justice, Adla has been actively engaged in efforts against racism and xenophobia at both the national and European levels. She has represented Southern European countries in the European Network Against Racism (ENAR) and currently serves on the Steering Committee of Equinox – Initiative for Racial Justice. Her advocacy focuses on inclusion, equality, and building cohesive societies that rely on care and not punishment.

Alba Hernández

Alba Hernández is a feminist and antiracist Romani gender studies expert. Her work centers on Roma women’s rights, Romani feminist knowledge production, and anti-racist activism. She co-founded the Romnja Feminist Library and the Feminist Collective of Romani Gender Experts. These two initiatives join forces by connecting knowledge production with advocacy, ensuring that Romani feminist voices shape both political narratives and institutional change. Her activism bridges research, community-driven action, and racial and gender justice.

Bulelani Mfaco

Bulelani Mfaco is a former spokesperson for the Movement of Asylum Seekers in Ireland (MASI). MASI is a grassroots campaign group which campaigns for an end to the abhorrent system of direct provision and deportations, defends the fundamental right to seek asylum, and agitates for a more humane asylum process. Bulelani cut his campaigning teeth in his native South Africa where from an early age he was involved in protests for adequate housing, access to land, and healthcare. Bulelani is currently on the board of the Irish Council for Civil Liberties, and the Hope and Courage Collective.

Fenya Fischler

Fenya Fischler is a dedicated queer feminist organizer and connector with a strong foundation in international human rights law and over a decade of experience in community and solidarity building across feminist, LGBTQI+, and broader social justice movements, with a specific focus on decriminalisation. Currently, she works as a Community Manager for the Global Narrative Hive, bringing together narrative workers globally and across movements to build relationships, experiment and learn from each other. She has co-founded several diasporist and anti-Zionist Jewish collectives and is passionate about building new Jewish visions of safety rooted in solidarity, care and liberatory futures for all.

Fizza Qureshi

Fizza Qureshi is the CEO of Migrants’ Rights Network (MRN), a campaigning organisation working alongside migrants in their fight for rights and justice. She has a commitment to social justice, anti-racist and anti-oppression practices to ensure those affected are enabled to lead the changes needed. Fizza pursued her academic journey in Biotechnology, and then later studied Human Rights and Social Change. Her passion for human rights and equity led her to embark on a career dedicated to social justice.

Beyond her CEO role, Fizza is a non-executive director on the board of Migrants at Work. She is also an honorary advisor for the Black Europeans.

Folashade Ajayi

Folashade Ajayi is a Brussels based human rights advocate, researcher, and artist. Her work is centred around grassroots Black and labour activism, and the power of our imagination. They hold a PhD in Political Science.

Jennifer Kamau

Jennifer Kamau is a Berlin based activist and Researcher. In 2012, she co-founded International Women* Space(IWS), an anti-racist, anti colonial feminist collective consisting of refugee and migrant women.The group was formed during the occupation of Oranienplatz(a public square in Berlin’s district of Kreuzberg) by the Refugee Movement that was confronting an Apartheid Asylum System.

Women’s resistance is often oppressed, and their histories hidden or ignored. IWS works to counteract this by documenting, making visible and publicising their stories.This includes a series of podcasts on the migrant women experiences.

Jennifer is a political activist and commentator of EU policies on migration and digitalisation of migration control. She co-leads a Migrant Justice Community of Practice, bringing together migrant-led organisations across Europe.

She leads a decolonial tour and is also an expert on anti-black racism.

Kahina Rabahi

Kahina Rabahi is the Policy and Advocacy Coordinator at European Anti-poverty Network Europe since 2021. Her work is driven by a radical vision for social emancipation — one that demands a fair redistribution of wealth and firmly opposes austerity policies that continue to harm the most vulnerable. Growing up in poverty in a migrant family, she has lived the consequences of systemic injustice. This experience fuels her dedication to challenging structural inequality and ensuring that lived experiences shape the policies that affect our lives. she believes in building a society where dignity, justice, and solidarity are more than ideals — they are reality.

Mamadou Ba

Mamadou Ba is a Luso-Senegalese anti-racist activist and public intellectual, based in Portugal since 1997. A leading figure in the European struggle for racial justice, he has been a key voice within SOS Racismo and has contributed to multiple national and international bodies dedicated to racial equality, including Portugal’s Permanent Council for Equality, European Network Against Racism and the Equinox Initiative for Racial Justice. He holds a degree in Portuguese Language and Culture from Cheikh Anta Diop University (Dakar) and a certificate in Translation from the University of Lisbon.

Ba is widely recognized for his uncompromising stance against structural racism and far-right violence in Portugal, which has led to political persecution and threats. In 2021, he received the Front Line Defenders Award for Human Rights Defenders at Risk, and in 2025, an honorary doctorate from the Federal University of Pará (Brazil). He is the author of several publications on coloniality, racism, and migration, including a recent book published in Brazil. He currently divides his time between Portugal, Brazil, and Canada, where he is affiliated with the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University.

Maria Atanasova

Maria Atanasova is a Romani scholar, activist, and policy expert from Bulgaria committed to racial justice, Roma empowerment, and structural change in Europe. She advocates for Roma and other marginalized communities, focusing on anti-Roma racism, political participation, and the securitization of minorities. Maria holds a BA in Midwifery and two master’s degrees – one in Political Science from Central European University in Vienna, and another in Public Policy from the University of Maryland, where she was a Fulbright Scholar. Her work addresses policing, racial profiling, and the intersection of international security and minority rights. She has collaborated with the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University on research into police brutality against Roma in Central and Eastern Europe. A former Rights Expert for Europe at the Global Forum on Discrimination (GFOD), Maria was named Young European of the Year in 2020 for her contributions to Roma youth and social justice.

Nidžara Ahmetašević

Nidžara Ahmetašević is a journalist, editor, and researcher from Sarajevo. Her work has been featured in various Balkan media, as well as The New Yorker, Al Jazeera English online, The Observer, The Independent on Sunday, the International Justice Tribune, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, etc. Her fields of interest are democratisation and media development in a post-conflict society, transitional justice, media and political propaganda, human rights, and migrations. She holds a PhD from the University of Graz, Austria.

Olivia Green

Olivia Green is a Berlin-based community coach and anti-discrimination advisor, focusing on racial justice, sexual education, and sex worker rights. With years of experience in grassroots organizing, she facilitates political and community events, often at the intersection of anti-racism and sexual health. Olivia is an active member of SWAG (Sexworker Action Group), a Berlin-based collective of sex workers and allies. She served on the advisory board of the 2024 study “What Do Sex Workers Need for Their Health?” led by Eleonore Willems and the German AIDS Service Organization (DAH), which explored the healthcare needs and barriers faced by sex workers in Germany. Olivia brings her expertise in intersectional community building, with a strong commitment to centering the voices of racialized people in EU policymaking. Her work is grounded in collective care, transnational solidarity and the each one teach one principle of peer-based knowledge sharing.

Sabrina Sanchez

Sabrina Sanchez is a trans activist, journalist, sex worker and Executive Director of the European Sex Workers’ Rights Alliance. After finishing her studies in Communications, she migrated to Spain where she started sex work as a means of survival. In 2016 she joined the first sex worker-led association formally registered in Spain where she was responsible for relations with other sex worker groups across Europe through the International Committee for Sex Workers’ Rights in Europe (ICRSE, now called ESWA). In 2018 she became one of the founders of the first sex workers’ union in Spain. This was contested by the Spanish government, until the Spanish Supreme Court ruled the union legal in 2021.

At the end of that year, she was elected by ESWA as Executive Director, where she continues to work for the recognition of sex workers’ rights before the European institutions

Selam Tesfai

Selam Tesfai is a black queer woman, born and raised in Milan with eritrean heritage.

Selam has been for more than a decade an activist of Cantiere, a political Laboratory of practices that unify young students & precarious workers’ needs, desires and fights. She lives in the Space of Mutual Aid – a beautiful ‘Urban Oasis’ based on the exchange of energy and time. Her work focuses on the intersection of race, gender and class.

Yassine Chagh

A strategic and multidisciplinary human rights advocate, Yassine specialises in intersectional approaches to SOGIESC issues, digital rights, refugee and migrant protection, and anti-racism—anchored in a BIPOC and queer perspective.

They bring both lived experience — as a Black Indeginous Queer Migrant— and professional expertise in driving systemic change at local, regional, and international levels, working with civil society networks, EU institutions, and multilateral agencies. Their core competencies include policy advocacy, stakeholder engagement, campaigning, and project coordination.

Migrant Justice Community of Practice

Equinox Initiative for Racial Justice, Greek Forum of Migrants and International Women* Space are building a coalition of racialised and migrant-led organisations working to shift European migration approaches away from punishment, violence and control toward community, care and social provision.

Protect Not Surveil Coalition

We co-cordinate the Protect Not Surveil – a coalition of organisations, activists and researchers challenging dangerous, digital tech solutions against people on the move. We promote accountability that centres the perspective of directly affected communities.

Tech Infrastructure Coalition

Alongside the Institute for Technology in the Public Interest (TITiPI), Equinox is building the tech infrastructure research coalition coming together to meet gaps in civil society and policymaking perspectives on AI and digitalisation.

Supporters Consortium

We’re working in alignment with other political advocacy organisations across movements link racial, gender, climate and social justice.