Our Team
Executive Director
ruby Mahmood Bukhari
(She/Her)
Ruby Mahmood Bukhari is a global programmes and MEAL specialist with expertise in strategic development, evaluation, and impact design across Asia and Africa. She has led initiatives for Lepra, Medics Across Continents, and the Royal Academy of Engineering. Ruby founded Ruthless International and has advised organisations in public health, education, and humanitarian aid. Her work has been featured by the BBC, Home Office, and Council of Europe.
Kalina Petrova [Kali]
(she/they/he)
London x Sofia
Kali is young, queer, Bulgarian transdisciplinary performance artist, Butoh dancer, live event curator, and researcher with a wide range of experiences in the artistic and community work fields.
Freelance Creative, member of the London Butoh Dance Company, Consultant at Centre for Immigration and Integration Bulgaria.
Mowmita Basak Mow
Director
(She/Her)
Mowmita Basak is a British-Bangladeshi advocacy and policy expert with over six years’ experience in public health, international development, and education. She lead global advocacy at Lepra UK and has worked with the UK Cabinet Office, Youth Policy Forum, and Hope Rises International. An Oxford MPP graduate, her work has been featured in The Guardian and The New York Times, highlighting her impact on social justice and equity.
Bartolomeo Goffo (Barto)
(she-her)
Amsterdam-Italy
Barto is an Italian trans* and queer person with a background in Cultural Analysis and Gender & Sexuality studies. With a focus on the LGBTQIA+ community, she works as a journalist, translator and editor for different realities both in Italy and internationally that voice for the representation of complex identities.
Sofia akhtar
Social Media Manager
(She/her)
Sofia Akhtar is a Pakistani/ English graphic designer from Manchester. Growing up with a mixed heritage, her work focuses on decolonising design and destigmatising non-Western culture in a white-dominated industry. Using her design as a tool for social activism, campaigning for justice is at the forefront of everything she creates.
Akhtar aims to bend ideas of what traditional graphic design looks like and utilises the art of people's perception as a force for change and understanding.