Farida Akram Mostafa
Farida Akram Mostafa
Farida Akram Mostafa
Queering Atrocity Prevention Coordinator
Andy Fearn
Farida Akram Mostafa
Farida Akram Mostafa
Co-Executive Director and Head of Learning and Outreach
Kimi Jolly
Farida Akram Mostafa
Detmer Kremer
Project Coordinator – Hate Crime Support and Reporting Service
Dr Jess Gifkins
Dr Kate Ferguson
Dr Kate Ferguson
Queering Atrocity Prevention Research Fellow
Dr Kate Ferguson
Dr Kate Ferguson
Dr Kate Ferguson
Co-Executive Director and Head of Research and Policy
Farida Akram Mostafa
Queering Atrocity Prevention Coordinator
Farida manages and coordinates Protection Approaches’ Queering Atrocity Prevention programme, looking at LGBTQI+ groups’ unique risks and vulnerabilities to mass atrocities and the ways in which programmatic interventions and risk frameworks can respond to them efficiently and swiftly, in pursuit of safer and more inclusive societies. In her work, she engages a wide variety of stakeholders to ensure cross-sector commitments to centring LGBTQI+ groups in atrocity prevention efforts.
Farida has previously worked with Doria Feminist Fund on supporting women’s rights and LGBTQI+ rights groups in the MENA region and ensuring that they have access to more and better resources to support their human rights work and their communities. She has a background in journalism where she focused on LGBTQI+ rights and freedom of speech in the MENA region, as well as youth initiatives. Farida holds a BA in Anthropology from the American University in Cairo and an MA in Human Rights from University College London. She was born and raised in Egypt.
“Queer populations around the world face unique risks of mass atrocities based on their identities, yet programmatic interventions and conversations on atrocity prevention often overlook their experiences, their needs and the factors that make them more vulnerable to violence. I believe that all atrocity and conflict prevention frameworks must account for and respond to these risks if they are to contribute to more just, peaceful, inclusive and equitable societies that leave no one behind."
Andy Fearn
Co-Executive Director, Head of Learning and Outreach
Andy heads our UK Stronger Communities programmes and works with schools, young people, marginalised communities, civil society organisations, and local and national decision makers, to increase understanding of the processes that lead to prejudice, marginalisation and identity-based violence, and to strengthen local and national responses. Andy also leads on managing MEL and Operations.
Andy has more than a decade of experience working with communities to build community resilience and supporting individuals to develop the practical skills, knowledge, confidence, and networks to positively and sustainably confront prejudice and hate. This includes designing and co-leading national cohesion building projects in Rwanda funded by DfID, as well as delivering community-based hate prevention programmes in London with the UK Home Office. Andy holds and MA in Human Rights from Kingston University, London.
“Creating a just and equitable world is the responsibility of all of us and with greater privilege comes greater responsibility.”
Kimi Jolly
Project Coordinator – Hate Crime Support and Reporting Service
Kimi is responsible for day-to-day coordination of a project to deliver a new, UK-wide third party hate crime support and reporting service for East and Southeast Asian communities. In this role Kimi is responsible for project managing the development and launch of this new service. She is committed to making sure that all partners and stakeholders are listened to and have the support needed to be meaningfully involved in the design, delivery, and outcome of this service. Kimi will be one of the main points of contact to coordinate communications and liaise with partner organisations, local statutory bodies, and service users.
Kimi co-founded East and Southeast Asian Scotland (ESA Scotland), which advocates for the diverse East and Southeast Asian (ESEA) communities subjected to racial violence, gender-based violence, unlawful discrimination and social exclusion in the UK. Her experience includes organising and running community focus groups amongst the ESEA diaspora communities on the ESEA experience in Scotland. Kimi specialises in bottom-up community outreach and cultural competency and has worked extensively with marginalised communities, especially Asylum seekers and Refugees that have been trafficked from ESEA nations throughout Europe and the UK.
‘I understand first-hand how incredibly disempowering it can be, as someone who experiences systemic and direct racism including violent hate crimes and hate incidents growing up in Scotland. Working with East and Southeast Asian communities taught me how incredibly diverse and varying our needs are and how important it is to approach service delivery from a nuanced perspective. Protection Approaches is providing a space and opportunity for us to come together and work to fight the long standing invisibility and neglect faced by East and Southeast Asians in the UK. I am honoured to be co-leading on this important project and hope to do it justice for our communities.’
Detmer Kremer
Policy and Communications Coordinator
Detmer Kremer is supporting national and international atrocity prevention research and policy and coordinates Protection Approaches’ convening of the UK Atrocity Prevention Working Group. He also oversees our communications – from social media to press.
Detmer has worked on and supported rights-based climate action and Indigenous liberation in Samoa, Turtle Island (United States), Singapore, and at the United Nations. He has additional experience in housing justice, LGBTQ+ rights and sexual violence prevention, which are intersections as a queer person and survivor himself Detmer brings to his work. Detmer holds a BA in Anthropology from Bates College and a MA in Human Rights from University College London.
“Climate change is a symptom of how many of us choose to live on the planet, and while climate change impacts us all, it disproportionately does so to communities already experiencing exclusion and marginalisation. In the climate field I noticed a need to better understand what violence is, how it is connected to changes like ecosystem collapse, and how we prevent it. Protection Approaches has always sought to change how we think about and prevent identity-based violence, a conversation any climate activist should wish to be a part of.”
Dilia Zwart
Futures of Education Research Fellow
Dilia Zwart is advising the PA team and contributing to our education programme. She managed PA's education programme from 2019-2021 and authored our report 'Building stronger communities through critical and compassionate schooling.'
She has nearly ten years of experience managing education programmes and researching how educational systems can create more inclusive, democratic, and peaceful societies. She has worked on peacebuilding and atrocity prevention in the United Kingdom, Belgium, and Bosnia-Herzegovina. In September 2021 she began a PhD in International Education at New York University. Dilia holds a BA in Social Anthropology from Harvard University and an MA in International Studies and Diplomacy from SOAS, University of London.
“Schools are communities and can play a key role in inspiring young people to be positive changemakers. During one of our education programme's focus groups on the future of education in 2020, students said they wanted their schools ‘To teach the future [generations] how to respect themselves and others [and] to care for a world that is constantly changing.’ Centring youth voices and ensuring that they have the tools they need to care for themselves, others, and the planet is at the heart of building stronger communities resilient to identity-based violence.”
Aditi Gupta
Director of Policy
Aditi jointly leads the development of Protection Approaches’ research portfolios, policy programmes with Co-Executive Directors, Dr Kate Ferguson and Andy Fearn, creating strategic advocacy plans and identifying opportunities for policy engagement that bring together PA’s domestic and international work. As a member of the executive leadership team she will work together with the Board of Trustees, to set the organisational and fundraising strategy for the next era of PA’s work, ensuring we lead by example in establishing equitable, inclusive and human-centred organisational and HR policies.
Aditi is an accomplished policy analyst and strategist with a proven track record in advocacy, research and consensus-building across military, government, humanitarian, and civil society communities. She is an Executive Board Member at Airwars. Through her roles as Deputy Director of the UK chapter of Women of Colour Advancing Peace and Security (WCAPS-UK) and now as co-Founder of the Minorities in Peace and Security (MPS) network, Aditi is a recognised leader in the fight against intersectional inequalities endemic in the professional fields of peace, security and prevention.
Before joining PA, Aditi Directed the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Drones and Modern Conflict where she led the Group's strategy and activities in Parliament, working with MPs and Peers to improve the accountability, transparency and oversight of the UK's use of force and military partnerships. Aditi holds a First Class MSc. in Global Politics and Civil Society, awarded by the London School of Economics.
“People of colour and minorities are disproportionately affected by bad policy—but are largely left out of dominant research, policymaking and practice. This means that most policy solutions are incomplete, and therefore, flawed. I firmly believe that work combating systemic inequalities and tackling prejudicial assumptions is indivisible from creating sustainable and equitable policy solutions. PA’s transformative work on identity-based violence tackles these issues head-on, working with communities both in the UK and across the world to incorporate intersectional analysis. By building consensus across borders and across sectors, we can forge powerful coalitions to change shape policies that will build a more peaceful and equitable world.”
Dr Jess Gifkins
Queering Atrocity Prevention Research Fellow
Jess works with Protection Approaches on queering atrocity prevention. In this project we are researching atrocity prevention with an LGBTQI+ lens. There are specific forms of persecution of LGBTQI+ people which are often overlooked when thinking about identity-based violence from the perspective of ethnic or religious minorities. We aim to bring together communities and organisations working on atrocity prevention with those working on LGBTQI+ rights.
Jess is a queer academic at the University of Manchester where she researches atrocity prevention and United Nations decision-making processes. She has over a decade of experience working on atrocity prevention, starting with her PhD within the Asia-Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, in Brisbane Australia. Jess has published widely in academic journals and her research has been featured in the Guardian and the Economist. At the University of Manchester, she leads modules on the United Nations at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Her forthcoming monograph Inside the UN Security Council: Legitimation Practices and Darfur will be published by Oxford University Press
“We know that LGBTQI+ people have been specifically targeted as part of mass atrocity crimes as far back as the Holocaust and yet modern approaches to atrocity prevention – as envisaged through the principle of the responsibility to protect – have largely neglected the persecution of queer people. The current backlash against LGBTQI+ rights in many parts of the world makes this all the more important, as does the current culture war against queer, and particularly trans, people in the UK.”
Dr Kate Ferguson
Co-Executive Director, Head of Research and Policy
Kate heads our research and policy work, establishing evidenced, equitable and creative pathways to structural change. This includes undertaking, commissioning, and coordinating research, providing technical advice to policy stakeholders, and creating opportunities for knowledge exchange. She leads our political engagement strategy, developing working groups and building constituencies of influence in the UK and abroad. She manages PA’s fundraising portfolio for our research and policy programmes, including Stronger Communities and Atrocity Prevention. Kate is also responsible for a lot of our HR including PA’s ongoing efforts to create human-centred processes of recruitment, employment, and working culture.
Kate is an experienced analyst and strategist driving a prevention-first approach to foreign policy and the cycle of crises. She is a regular commentator on domestic and international issues relating to identity-based violence in the press and continues to publish academic writing. Her book, Architectures of Violence: The Command Structures of Modern Mass Atrocities, was published in 2020 by Hurst and Oxford University Press.
Before founding PA, Kate worked in political strategy and research across a number of roles in the third sector, academia, the UK parliament, and as a private consultant. Between 2012-2018 she lectured on subjects relating to the histories of rights and violence at the University of East Anglia. She was a founding Editor of Refugee History, where she helped develop the concept and online platform. She received her PhD in 2015 from the University of East Anglia on devolved structures of modern mass atrocities and has an MPhil in Russian and East European Studies from the University of Oxford. Kate was made inaugural Chair of Policy at the European Centre of the Responsibility to Protect in 2018 where she works with the executive team to identify strategies for academic impact and is an occasional guest lecturer. She serves on the Board of Trustees of Holocaust Memorial Day Trust and is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of East Anglia.
“At the heart of Protection Approaches’ work is the pursuit of a more just, equitable and inclusive world. This means that we are part of a vast global movement for change that connects us to our local communities here in the UK and also to allies on the other side of the world – all of us making different contributions that help to push against division, greed and violence. I truly believe that we can achieve more together than we can alone and that through empathy and collaboration we can transform ourselves as well as the forces of oppression we exist to dismantle. I can think of no greater privilege than the work I am lucky enough to do, creating connections across our movement, helping to open access to power, and learning all of the time from others how to do that better.”
Szymon Glowacki
Stronger Communities Outreach Lead
Szymon is responsible for developing, delivering, and leading on our various programmes including school-based education workshops, online and offline community builder trainings, hate crime trainings, active bystander trainings, and engagement activities with marginalised communities supporting them to lead on making positive change in their local communities.
Szymon was born and raised in Poland to a traditional Roma-Gypsy family.
“I have seen my community being marginalized and denied basic human rights. It was hard for me to understand why some people are treated differently. I asked many Roma people: why don’t we do something about it? And very often I heard “We are used to things like that” this is why I decided to work with and for communities”
Szymon has worked for the past 10 years with Roma-Gypsy communities in Poland and the UK supporting them to have their voices heard. His work includes being a teacher, learning mentor and mental health advocate. Szymon uses art as a tool to explore one’s identity. Szymon earned his MA in teaching and journalism in Poland.
Board of Trustees
Marsha Bertie-Small
Marsha Bertie-Small
Marsha Bertie-Small
Marsha is a Business Risk Manager at Nomura, focusing on product governance and business risk management. Marsha is an experienced regulatory risk manager, responsible for global project teams, resource allocation, budgets and oversight of large scale complex projects. She brings her expertise to oversee accounting, safeguarding and risk management of Protection Approaches.
Amy Drake
Marsha Bertie-Small
Marsha Bertie-Small
Amy is the Grants Manager at the Anne Frank Trust. She has worked on genocide commemoration, anti-prejudice education and youth engagement. Previously Amy was Head of Development at UpRising, and Director of Remembering Srebrenica. Amy has a particular interest in women’s experience of genocide and remembering the stories of resistance and friendship across socially constructed divides.
Jacqueline Geis
Marsha Bertie-Small
Jacqueline Geis
Jacqueline is the CEO of Videre est Credere, an award-winning NGO that partners with frontline communities to document and expose human rights abuses. She serves on the International Criminal Court’s Technology Advisory Board and advises governments, NGOs, and international organisations on working securely and effectively in crisis situations. She brings decades of policy, fundraising, operations, strategy, and advocacy experience to her systems change work and to our Board.
Mariko Hayashi
Will Martindale
Jacqueline Geis
Mariko is the Executive Director of the Southeast and East Asian Centre, a grass-roots organisation led by and for migrants, refugees and people seeking asylum from Southeast and East Asian countries, as well as people of these heritages living in the UK. Mariko is also a trustee for Kanlungan Filipino Consortium and a member of the Visa Fee Campaign Steering Group of Migrant Voice.
Jo Henderson
Will Martindale
Will Martindale
Jo is an independent consultant and a policy, advocacy and humanitarian specialist. She has over 15 years experience developing strategy, policy and programmes across the non-government and government sectors including in the atrocity prevention sector. Jo's experience working across humanitarian contexts, with refugees and people impacted by conflict and violence reinforces her belief in the vital role Protection Approaches plays in changing how the world views identity-based violence and how we collective respond to and prevent it.
Will Martindale
Will Martindale
Will Martindale
Will is Group Head of Sustainability at Cardano and was previously the Director of Policy and Research at the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment. Will works on investment, climate change and human rights. Will has been a Trustee with Protection Approaches since its founding and is keen to support on how community work can contribute to policy design that tackles hate crime and its causes – both here in the UK and globally.
Claire Fyfe - Chair of the Board
Claire Fyfe - Chair of the Board
Claire Fyfe - Chair of the Board
Claire has over 13 years experience working in communications agencies; four of those within the strategic communications sector managing teams to deliver effective domestic and international communications campaigns. Claire joined the board 7 years ago with a desire to support Protection Approaches in its mission to tackle the ever-present and growing threat of identity based violence to our communities.