Rahildaris is a communications professional, illustrator, and refugee youth advocate who uses storytelling, visual communication, and art to amplify the voices and experiences of migrants and refugees. Through her work with the Global Refugee Youth Network (GRYN), she develops communication strategies and creative content that support refugee youth leadership, representation, and advocacy. Her illustrations explore themes of displacement, belonging, resilience, and identity, translating complex lived experiences into accessible and impactful visual narratives.

Veronica has over 15 years’ experience in migrant justice work, in various roles including as a caseworker with the Unity Centre (Glasgow) and Khora Asylum Support Team (Greece), member of Solidarity Detainee Support group (London) and co-ordinator of a perinatal support service with Project MAMA (Bristol). In her current role as Development Manager at South London Refugee Association, she secures resources to support the embedding of anti-racist practice and our ongoing exploration of abolitionist and transformative justice principles, and help ensure that migrant voices shape services, communications and campaigns.

Bareya works across migrant justice, movement-building and solidarity spaces. She currently supports operations, fundraising and organisational strategy across various collectives, and has worked with a range of civil society organisations supporting displaced people across Europe. She has previously led post-evacuation efforts for children medically evacuated from Gaza, and has worked with UNHCR in protection and resettlement operations across North Africa and Asia. Having grown up in a refugee community, her work is deeply informed by a long-standing commitment to challenging externalisation policies and border violence.

Since then, she has engaged in grassroots organising for street vendors’ rights in Barcelona, especially supporting her fellow Black migrant community. She is responsible for external financing at Top Manta, a clothing brand and store founded by undocumented African migrants to create job opportunities, promote the regularisation of migratory status, and rebelliously reclaim the othering Spanish term of manteros for street vendors. Maria holds a postgraduate degree in social economy business management from the UPF Mataró technocampus.

Her main thematic focuses include border externalisation policies by the EU, the role of the border control agency Frontex, and activating civil society’s solidarity. As part of Balkan Brücke, Pauline advocates against the human rights abuses along the so-called Balkan route, fosters connections between different civil society groups, and offers direct support to local communities. During her academic journey, she has led tutorials and conducted research on the human rights consequences of EU externalisation policies in Serbia.

She has worked with migrant-led initiatives in the Greek islands and the Balkans. She currently consults on advocacy and communication for Grupa Granica, an umbrella movement that brings together organisations, aid workers, local community members, and activists in response to the increasingly dire conditions at the Polish-Belarussian border, in particular in the Bialowieza primeval forest. She is a fierce advocate for animal and environmental rights. In her spare time she enjoys long walks in nature with her 2 rescue dogs.