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Dionne Abdoelhafiezkhan Dionne Abdoelhafiezkhan is is known for bringing people together in her unique, playful way. She was born in Rotterdam and raised in Amsterdam. She has a wealth of cultures with a Catholic French mother and a spiritually Muslim Surinamese father with roots in Trinidad and Persia. She has a black belt in taekwondo and played tennis at a high level for years, which taught her at a young age to get the best out of yourself and to deal with different people. During her master’s degree in business administration, she founded her own organization (Hi5) at the age of 22, which is now IZI Solutions (IZI) focuses on social innovation to achieve sustainable solutions for social issues. She is also the co-initiator of the Black Manifesto (Het Zwarte Manifest) which is a call to action to combat institutional anti-Black racism and promote Black emancipation in the Netherlands. And in 2016, she won the Black Talent Achievement Award.
Daphina Misiedjan Dr. Daphina Misiedjan is an assistant-professor in human rights and the environment at International Institute of Social Studies (ISS/EUR). Dr. Misiedjan specializes in issues concerning human rights and environmental justice. Her current research looks climate justice in the context of the Dutch overseas territories and environmental justice in the local Dutch European context. Besides her academic work, she is committed to making academia an environment where more communities can thrive. She is the initiator of the Black Scholar and Expert Conference, has co-founded the Dutch Black PhD Experience 7 years ago and is a member of KNAW’s Young Academy.
Prof. dr. Foluke Adebisi They said ‘no road’, we say ‘the road is made by walking.’ Foluke Ifejola Adebisi is a Professor at the Law School, University of Bristol. Her scholarship focuses mainly on the relationship between theories of decolonisation and how they do and can interact with legal knowledge. Thus, her scholarly work is concerned with what happens at the intersection of legal education, law, society, and a history of changing ideas of what it means to be human. She has written widely in this area. She also edited a special issue for the Law Teacher journal on decolonisation in 2019. She found and runs Forever Africa Conference and Events (FACE), a Pan-African interdisciplinary conference. She blogs about her scholarship and pedagogy on her website ‘Foluke’s African Skies’. Her monograph “Decolonisation and Legal Knowledge: Reflections on Power and Possibility” was published by Bristol University Press in of March 2023.