Education
September 2019-
De Montfort University
Leicester, United Kingdom
Master of Laws (LL.M)
International Human Rights Law
August 2015 – December 2017
Humak University of Applied Sciences
Helsinki, Finland
Community educator (Ba)
Final thesis: Building intersectionality and feminist leadership in political women’s rights organisations
August 2009- September 2012
Université Paris VIII
Paris, France
Bachelor of political science and philosophy (Ba)
Final thesis: Political terminology of refugees and asylum seekers
September 2005- June 2008
French-Finnish school of Helsinki
High school matriculation examination
Work experience
October 2019
OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
Expert
Consultancy on gender sensitive political parties. Training on good practices for advancing gender equality in political parties and co-facilitating a practical workshop for actors in the Czech Parliament.
November 2018 – March 2019
European Women’s Lobby
Consultant
Consultancy on a project between Europe’s largest women’s rights umbrella organisation and Google Europe. Training and facilitating sessions on online violence against women.
January 2017-
Green Women’s Association
Coordinator
Coordinating the women’s branch of the Green Party of Finland. At the intersection of both civic work and political changemaking, my tasks include campaigning, communications, producing events, organisational development and assisting the board.
September- April 2017
Emma Kari
Campaign manager
As the head of the municipal elections campaign for Member of Parliament Emma Kari (Greens), I was in charge of canvassing and coordinating the support group of volunteers, the electoral budget, media relations and communications more broadly.
January- May 2017
Greens of Uusimaa
Campaign worker
Ahead of the municipal elections of 2017, I ran the Greens regional campaign in the region of Uusimaa, Finland. I designed and executed a campaign tour, was in charge of relations to the members of parliament, of the campaign communications and organising trainings for local candidates.
August- December 2016
Greens of Uusimaa
Internship
My internship with Finland’s largest regional Green organisation focused on supporting the board, doing communications, assisting the executive director and promoting new innovative forms of volunteer coordinating.
May 2015- December 2016
The Red Cross of Finland
No to Racism!- project
As a volunteer and intern, I executed and coordinated anti-racist school visits, training sessions and workshops across the country, in over 20 cities.
June 2015- January 2016
The Red Cross of Finland
Reception centre of Punavuori
Coordinating a gender-sensitive action group for asylum seeker women on a volunteer basis.
September 2014- July 2015
Monika- Multicultural Women’s Association
After being qualified as a support person for migrant women, I helped design and facilitate a peer support language course and assisted personally multiple women residing at the shelter. I also hosted a charity fundraiser event to benefit the women at the shelter.
June – September 2011
Lawyers for Human Rights
Refugee & Migrants Programme
Johannesburg, South Africa
Interning at a humanitarian law office, I assisted in consulting clients, took statements, did geopolitical research to support the cases and took part in daily administrative work both in French and English.
Language skills
Fluent English, excellent French, native Finnish, basic Swedish, Spanish and Finnish sign language.
Other Skills
Extensive Windows- and Mac-computer skills and the usage of most common office programs. Great social media, photo editing and research skills.
LIFELONG LEARNING
October 2019-
Leadership Development for Transition and Change
Social Intelligence Associates
Dublin, Ireland
Scholarship recipient for six-month leadership programme designed for senior-level community organizers and changemakers.
November 2018
Demo Finland
Democracy Academy
Training course on national security, defence and foreign policy designed for women in politics. Organised by multi-party collaboration platform Demo and the foreign ministry of Finland.
January- April 2015
Stanford University
International Women’s Health & Human Rights- online course (MOOC).
