Diana Nammi is a Kurdish and British human rights activist. She spent twelve years on the frontline as a Peshmerga (Kurdish freedom fighter) until moving to the UK as a political refugee. In 2002 she founded IKWRO (Iranian and Kurdish Women’s Rights Organisation), ten years later she was named as one of 150 women who shake the world by Newsweek and the Daily Beast. In 2014 she received the Special Jury Women on the Move Award from UNHCR, The Forum and Migrants Rights Network, she was honoured with the Woman of the Year Award and was recognised as one of BBC’s 100 Women. In 2015 she won the Women of Courage Award from the Women’s Refugee Commission in New York, the XX1 Premis Ones Mediterrania Award in Spain and the Red Woman of the Year Community and Charity Award.

In a twenty-year career as a journalist, Karen Attwood’s work has been published in all UK national newspapers as well as international publications such as Stern magazine and Mainichi Shinbun. She is a former staff writer at the Independent, the Independent on Sunday and the Press Association, where she was a breaking news reporter. She was on the launch team for Abu Dhabi’s first English language newspaper, the National, and she has worked at the BBC and the Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK). Karen has lived in Japan, the United Arab Emirates, France and Mexico and is currently based in London.