Alaa Satir is a Sudanese cartoonist from Khartoum, graduated in architecture from the University of Khartoum. She is currently working as graphic designer, illustrator and cartoonist and studying at the University of the Arts in London. Various offices and NGOs make use of her visual art.

Celia Zayas, from Spain, is interested in the role of arts for social change. She is developing her career in the field of international relations and international cultural relations, but she has done also some work in illustration, photography and literature.

Daiffa is a Franco-Algerian artist. She is one of the first women cartoonists to be known in the Arab world. Born in a conservative environment, soon she started to observe the society that surrounded her and, without hesitation, she started to raise her voice, frequently with a dark humour, about certain patriarcal behaviours hindering, on the first place, women. Apart from her female condition, Daiffa’s drawings approach many topics, such as world poverty, demography or environment.

Laura Árbol is an illustrator based in Spain. She works in visual thinking, editorial illustration and illustrated projects for different campaigns and products. Her projects are focused in feminism, millennial precariousness and topicality, always using a sense of humor. She really likes play on words.

Adriana Soto Mosquera (Nani) is a Colombian artist, and holds a BA in Biology and graphic designer and fashion. She is a Honorary Professor of humor at the University of Alcala de Henares, Spain 1998. She has won several international awards in Cuba, Mexico, Argentina, Colombia and Spain. She is a contributor to the International Committee of the Red Cross in the fight against womens’ abuse and she has worked to make visible women cartoonists in the world. She is the author of 16 books which are sold throughout Latin America and her cartoons have illustrated books to teach Spanish throughout the world. Her work is focused on UN partnerships with women and her character Magola Colombia, who has been published in different newspapers for 25 years.

Siza Mukwedini, from Zimbawe, defines herself as a dreamer, ideator, innovator, learner and visual storyteller working in most forms of new digital media to engage Zimbabwean and African communities on coming up with solutions to social pertinent issues they face. Siza also trains, mentors and works with marginalized communities (women, youth and deaf communities) to find their voices through formats like film and print media production.