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BOARD

Karen Taylor
Chair

Ghyslain Vedeux
1st Vice-Chair

Amiirah Salleh-Hoddin
2nd Vice-Chair

Shaban Sidratu Jah Sesay
Treasurer

Zlakha Ahmed
Board Member

Federica Dadone
Board Member

Xavier Donker
Board Member

Giulia Frova
Board Member

Anne Nolan
Board Member

Nyanchama Okemwa
Board Member

Rahel Weldeab Sebhatu
Board Member
STAFF

Kim L. Smouter Umans
Director (General)
Biography
Kim L. Smouter Umans joined ENAR in March 2022. Kim previously worked as ESOMAR’s Head of Public Affairs and Professional Standards, having joined ESOMAR in 2012. While there, he headed a small team of professional standards and public affairs experts championing the value of market, opinion and social research and data analytics.
Through his former role, he also worked to promote the interests of over 5,000 professionals and 550 companies working in the field of market, opinion and social research and data analytics, leading ESOMAR’s advocacy efforts on major policy dossiers including the General Data Protection Regulation and the ePrivacy Regulation. Kim also served a stint as Secretary General of the European Network of National Civil Society Associations. As its first Secretary General, Kim laid the foundations for securing its role and its future as one of Europe’s leading bodies defending the interests of the non-profit sector by bringing together over 20 national civil society infrastructure platforms.
He has also served in various policy roles working for the North East England Office in Brussels and in the European Parliament working in the fields of social policy, education, and employment. He holds a master’s degree in European Public Affairs and a bachelor’s degree in European Studies and is a graduate of the University of Maastricht.
Languages: English, Dutch, French

Ojeaku Nwabuzo
Director (Policy, Advocacy and Network Development)
Biography
Ojeaku joined ENAR in 2014 as the Shadow Report Officer. She previously worked at Runnymede, a race equality think tank in the UK, as a research and policy analyst where she led on various projects including the Race Equality Scorecard and the Riot Roundtables. During her time at Runnymede Ojeaku also carried out research for the Deaths in Custody and mental health research project, the UK Race and Europe Network (UKREN) and developed various resources that captured individual and community histories on migration and belonging. Ojeaku has extensive experience of working in children and young people’s charities including the National Children’s Bureau where she provided advice and support to the Department for Education. Ojeaku holds a BSc in Politics from the University of Southampton and an MA in Political Communications from Goldsmiths, University of London.
Languages: English and French

Mahmoud AbuRahma
Programme and Donor Relations Manager
Biography
Mahmoud AbuRahma joined ENAR in January 2020. He holds a Master’s degree in the Theory and Practice of Human Rights from the University of Essex, UK. He is experienced in programme and project management and international advocacy.
Throughout his career, he led civil society efforts to empower local communities through civic education and civic action to strengthen democratisation and rights-based approaches in Palestine. He also worked on the promotion and protection of human rights through the international law framework in Palestine and the Middle East region; focusing on human rights and IHL protection and advocacy. He is also working on combating the shrinking civic space and the empowerment and protection of human rights defenders.
During this time, he carried out a research fellowship at the centre for Applied Human Rights at the University of York, UK, and served on the Executive Committee of the EuroMed Rights Network.
Languages: Arabic, English, Dutch

Nourhene Mahmoudi
Policy and Advocacy Advisor
Biography
Nourhene has joined ENAR as Policy and Advocacy Advisor in September 2022 to cover for Julie’s maternity leave. Her main responsibility is to support the implementation of the organisation’s advocacy strategy, monitor EU policy developments, and carry out the work around the EU ARAP/NAPARs and related dossiers. Nourhene is an anti-racist and youth activist with experience in advocacy for the rights of racialised communities and has previously covered leadership positions in youth organisations. Her passion for racial justice brought her to be involved from a young age in NGOs where she gained experience in youth activism and youth rights, campaigning, advocacy, and anti-racism work, including Islamophobia. She is concluding her studies in Comparative Cultures and Languages with Political Sciences orientation where she is writing her thesis on the European Anti-racism Action Plan.”

Julie Pascoët
Policy and Advocacy Coordinator
Biography
Julie Pascoet is Policy and Advocacy Coordinator at ENAR. She has a master in European and International Affairs from the Paris 8 University in France. She is an advocacy expert specialised in EU policies and legislations related to racial equality and justice. With her team, she has initiated and piloted innovative initiatives such as the 2-year project “Forgotten women: the impact of islamophobia on Muslim women”, which led to the first ever European report and symposium on intersectional discrimination targeting Muslim women. She has also supported the creation of group-based coalitions such as the Alliance against antigypsyism and coalitions against islamophobia.
She has been steering the work of ENAR around the adoption of the new EU anti-racism action plan and more generally on racial justice policy making such as intersectionality and EU standards for national action plans against racism. She coordinated the organisation of the first European symposium on intersectionality that took place in Brussels on 3rd October 2018 and that gathered 100 policy makers, practitioners and academics.
Languages: French, English and Spanish

Magda Boulabiza
Policy and Advocacy Advisor: Employment, Diversity & Inclusion
Biography
Magda-Sarah joined ENAR in 2021. She has gained experience as a legal trainee at CSH Avocats in the field of migration and asylum law, where she advised and guided asylum seekers to obtain legal protection in France, in collaboration with several NGOs and public authorities. In addition, during her time as a legal consultant at ENHESA in Brussels, she developed Corporate Social Responsibility content and best practices on diversity and inclusion of minority groups in the workplace for Fortune 500 companies.
She holds a Master’s Degree in Public Law and Public Affairs.
Languages: French, English, Spanish

Oyidiya Oji
Advocacy and Policy Advisor: Digital Rights
Biography
Oyidiya Oji joined ENAR in September 2022 as Policy and Advocacy Advisor for Digital Rights. Her experience with data science led her to discover digital rights. She focuses her work on welfare automation, migration control and EU law enforcement. Before that, she has been researching and mapping projects on resistance and reappropriation of technologies with a special attention to AI. For several years, she has been supporting grassroots organisations with an anti-racist and artivism approach in Spain. Oyidiya holds a master’s degree in International Business from the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona.
Languages: Spanish, Catalan, English and French

Radost Zaharieva
Advocacy and Policy Advisor: Fundamental Rights and Rule of Law
Biography
Radost Zaharieva joined ENAR as an Advocacy and Policy Advisor in October 2022. Radost specialises in Human Rights protection, environmental justice and social inclusion combining Political science background with extensive experience working with European institutions, international and national organisations and bodies, and civil society. She has expertise in European advocacy and policy development as well as monitoring and reporting, policy-oriented research and investigation. Holding a M.A in International Relations and European studies from the Sorbonne and the University of Cergy-Pontoise and a B.A in International relations and Roma language from INALCO (Paris), Radost gained knowledge and skills in conducting critical studies and providing tailored policy advice addressing political, social, economic, and environmental issues affecting vulnerable groups. Last but not least, Radost is an activist striving to achieve social justice which is a guiding principle in her professional carrier focusing on the major causes of structural inequalities, including discrimination and human rights violation.

Nabil Sanaullah
Communications and Press Manager
Biography
Nabil joined ENAR as the Communications and Press Officer in February 2021. His passion for this field started during his music career and continued to grow through various experiences across different industries. From 2018 to 2021, he worked for a social enterprise devoted to empowering at-risk youth where he developed and oversaw the company’s communication and media strategies. Before that, he worked as a Marketing Assistant while also taking on writing projects as a freelancer.
Languages: English, French
TBA
Network Communications Associate
Biography
TBA

Pia Šlogar
Network Development Officer
BIOGRAPHY
Pia joined ENAR in March 2023. She is highly involved in community engagement and voluntary work related to youth and minority rights through designing and implementing several development programmes at the grassroots level addressing issues of social inclusion of young people from disadvantaged neighbourhoods. Specifically, she has experience working with young people from minoritised backgrounds, in this young Roma, providing non-formal educational workshops that help explore their identity, empower them, and enable them to participate meaningfully in their local communities.
She has been a part of and worked with various minority youth organisations on local and European level and has been leading the work on social inclusion in the co-management body of the Council of Europe – Joint Council on Youth. Her work has been dedicated to promotion and protection of minority youth rights with an intersectional and rights-based approach.
Languages: Slovenian, English, Polish, Czech, Croatian

Izabela Jurczik-Arnold
Development and Granting Officer
Biography
Izabela joined ENAR in December 2021, bringing in her background in the field of intercultural education, youth and learning mobility. Most recently, as the Head of Education and Training at the European Federation for Intercultural Learning, she had been in charge of developing capacity building services for member organisations across Europe. She has experience as a project manager, fund-raiser and trainer on both organisational development and intercultural topics.
Languages: Polish, English, French, Italian
Anne-Sophie
Finance and Operations Manager
Biography
Anne-Sophie first joined the ENAR Foundation in September 2013 before working at ENAR since January 2014. She has a degree in event communication & marketing. After graduating, she worked in Beijing for Intel and in Belgium in the event field.
Languages: French, English, Chinese, Dutch, Spanish
Myriam De Feyter
Administration and Logistics Coordinator
Biography

Maciej Antosik
Budget and Finance Officer
Biography
Maciej joined the team in December 2022. He has experience in finance, controlling, grants and budgeting. He held financial and investment positions in non-profits and was also responsible for audits, transparent reporting and relations with financial institutions. He graduated from Philosophy and from English Studies with major in Applied Linguistics at University of Warsaw, then continued his education in accounting and international finance. His main professional focus is finance serving social purpose.

Irene García-Hernandez
Administration and Logistics Intern
Biography
Irene García-Hernandez joined ENAR in January 2023 as an Administration and Logistics Intern. She holds a degree in International Relations and has administrative and event organisation experience, with a background in advocacy and volunteering in multi-cultural and diverse environments. She was also a trainee at the Council of the EU.
Languages: French, English, Spanish