{"id":9391,"date":"2024-10-22T12:30:33","date_gmt":"2024-10-22T05:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/internationalprideawards.org\/?page_id=9391"},"modified":"2025-05-05T10:27:35","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T03:27:35","slug":"2024-awards-committee","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/internationalprideawards.org\/es\/2024-awards-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"El Comit\u00e9 de Premios 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\t\t\tEl Comit\u00e9 de Premios 2024\n\t\t\t<\/h1>\n\t

El Comit\u00e9 de los Premios Internacionales del Orgullo, reunido por el PNUD e ILGA Mundo, re\u00fane a un grupo diverso de l\u00edderes mundiales dedicados a promover los derechos y la inclusi\u00f3n de las personas LGBTIQ+. Estos defensores tienen muchas experiencias en derechos humanos y representan a una amplia gama de sectores, lo que refleja la amplitud y profundidad de su compromiso con la igualdad y la justicia.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\"Nate\n

\n\t\tNate Brown\n\t<\/h4>\n\t

Nate Brown (\u00e9l) es el Director Ejecutivo de Pan Africa ILGA, una organizaci\u00f3n de redes regionales dedicada a promover los derechos humanos de las personas LGBTIQ+ en toda \u00c1frica. Reconociendo la importancia de la incidencia y el activismo para crear una sociedad m\u00e1s inclusiva, Nate se ha dedicado a defender los derechos de las comunidades marginadas. Su compromiso le llev\u00f3 a desempe\u00f1ar un papel de liderazgo centrado en la promoci\u00f3n de los derechos humanos de las personas LGBTIQ+ en toda \u00c1frica. Nate es licenciado en Contabilidad y Finanzas y en Administraci\u00f3n de Empresas por la Universidad de Greenwich de Londres (Reino Unido). Su formaci\u00f3n acad\u00e9mica le proporciona una base s\u00f3lida para su trabajo en liderazgo organizativo y gesti\u00f3n financiera.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\"Margherita\n

\n\t\tMargherita Coppolino\n\t<\/h4>\n\t

Margherita Coppolino (ella) es consultora en interseccionalidad. Ha realizado la formaci\u00f3n del Australia Institute of Company Directors y ha formado parte de varios Consejos en puestos ejecutivos y no ejecutivos. Recientemente, ha sido nombrada Copresidenta de Inclusive Rainbow Voices (LGBTIQA+Personas con Discapacidad) y tambi\u00e9n Copresidenta de ILGA Oceania y es miembro del Consejo de ILGA Mundo. En 2020, fue nombrada primera Presidenta del Subcomit\u00e9 de Discapacidad de ILGA Oceania y es la actual Vicepresidenta del Consejo de Drummond\/&Queer-space. Ha sido nombrada para tres mandatos en el Grupo de Trabajo Ministerial LGBTI de Victoria y en el Comit\u00e9 Asesor Comunitario de la SBS. Anteriormente, ocup\u00f3 el cargo de Presidenta en los Consejos de Arts Access Victoria y de Australia Federation of Disability Organisations. Margherita es australiana de primera generaci\u00f3n, nacida de madre siciliana que emigr\u00f3 en 1959. Naci\u00f3 con estatura baja y es una feminista y lesbiana orgullosa.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\"Vivek\n

\n\t\tVivek Divan\n\t<\/h4>\n\t

Vivek Divan (\u00e9l) es un activista y abogado queer que ha estado en el centro de los esfuerzos de emancipaci\u00f3n LGBTIQ+ en India y en todo el mundo desde la d\u00e9cada de 1990. Tuvo una participaci\u00f3n central en los esfuerzos de litigio por la descriminalizaci\u00f3n en la India y trabaj\u00f3 en el PNUD para fomentar el cambio legislativo y pol\u00edtico en asuntos LGBTIQ+ mediante el asesoramiento y la sensibilizaci\u00f3n de las personas funcionarias p\u00fablicas del Sur Global y la incidencia en ellos. En 2019 fund\u00f3 el Centre for Health Equity, Law & Policy en la Indian Law Society de Pune (India), que dirige en la actualidad. Vivek sigue escribiendo ampliamente sobre cuestiones de marginaci\u00f3n y derechos en relaci\u00f3n con la salud y la sexualidad.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\"Julia\n

\n\t\tJulia Ehrt\n\t<\/h4>\n\t

Julia Ehrt (she\/her) is the Executive Director at ILGA World and a widely respected LGBTIQ+ activist and community leader. Before joining ILGA World she was the Executive Director of Transgender Europe where she contributed significantly to how trans issues are perceived and debated today in Europe and beyond. She served as a founding Steering Committee member of the International Trans Fund until 2019, served as a board member of the Association for Womens’ Rights in Development for six years, is a member of the Board of Directors of the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice and is a signatory to the Yogyakarta Principles plus 10. Julia holds a PhD in mathematics and lives with her partner and child in Berlin and in Geneva.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\"Jaevion\n

\n\t\tJaevion Nelson\n\t<\/h4>\n\t

Jaevion Nelson (he\/him) is a distinguished human rights, economic, social justice and inclusive development practitioner with extensive expertise in advocacy, communications and project management. Currently serving as the Community Support Advisor for UNAIDS in the Multi-Country Office for the Caribbean, based in Jamaica, Jaevion brings a wealth of experience from his tenure at Jamaica’s oldest LGBTIQ organization, J-FLAG, where he held various roles including Executive Director from 2010 to 2021. Jaevion holds a Master of Science in Social Development and Communication from the University of Wales, Swansea, and a Bachelor of Science in Management Studies (Marketing) from the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus. His commitment to excellence is underscored by accolades such as being a former Chevening Scholar (2009\/2010), recipient of the Youth Musgrave Medal (2008), and Prime Minister Youth Awardee for Excellence in International Achievement (2005). He was also recognized as a finalist for the Elizabeth Taylor Human Rights Award (2014) and shortlisted for the Thomson Foundation Young Journalist Award (2013).<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\"Shereen\n

\n\t\tShereen El Feki\n\t<\/h4>\n\t

Shereen El Feki is the inaugural Director of Solidarity for Change and Voice at International Planned Parenthood. She is the author of Sex and the Citadel: Intimate Life in a Changing Arab World (Penguin Random House), a groundbreaking study of sexuality and its intersection with politics, religion and culture across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Shereen is the former Regional Director for MENA at UNAIDS and former Regional Director for MENA with Equimundo, where she led the International Men and Gender Equality Survey Middle East and North Africa. Shereen has previously served as Vice-Chair of the UN’s Global Commission on HIV and the Law and is currently an Associate Fellow of Chatham House. She started her career as a Healthcare Correspondent with The Economist and presenter with Al Jazeera. Shereen is a molecular immunologist by training, with a BSc from the University of Toronto and an MPhil and PhD in molecular immunology from the University of Cambridge.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\"Jeffrey\n

\n\t\tJeffrey O’Malley\n\t<\/h4>\n\t

Jeffrey O’Malley (he\/him) works with UNDP as its Global Hub Manager, LGBTI+ and Key Populations. Based in South Africa, he works in countries across Africa to promote social inclusion and human rights for sexual and gender minorities and other key populations, contributing to public health and social protection. Jeff has worked at the intersection of public health, human rights and sustainable development for over 30 years. In the early days of the HIV\/AIDS epidemic, he was at the forefront of organizing support to community action on the epidemic in developing countries, working with the World Health Organization’s Global Programme on AIDS, at the Harvard School of Public Health and as the Founder and Executive Director of the International HIV\/AIDS Alliance (now “FrontlineAIDS”). From 2004 onwards, O’Malley worked more broadly on public health and development issues, serving as the India Country Director for PATH (the Program for Appropriate Technology in Health), as the Director of HIV, Health and Development for UNDP, and as the Director of Data, Research and Policy for UNICEF. His academic publications have focused on HIV, sexual and reproductive health and rights, child rights and the role of civil society in development.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\"Phyll\n

\n\t\tPhyll Opoku-Gyimah\n\t<\/h4>\n\t

Phyll Opoku-Gyimah (she\/her) is the co-founder and CEO of UK Black Pride, Europe’s largest pride celebration for LGBTIQ+ people of colour. She is widely known as Lady Phyll – partly due to her decision to reject an MBE in the New Year’s Honours’ list to protest Britain’s role in formulating anti-LGBTIQ+ penal codes across its empire. Lady Phyll is an experienced community builder and organizer, an Albert Kennedy Trust patron and a writer and public speaker focusing on race, gender, sexuality and class. Lady Phyll is also the Secretary for the Commonwealth Equality Network, a network of organizations challenging inequality based on sexual orientation, gender identity and expression and sex characteristics. With an honorary doctorate recognizing her exceptional contributions, Lady Phyll has dedicated over two decades\u00a0 to human rights advocacy. She’s regularly called upon to advise nascent LGBTQI+ organizations around the world to help leaders create cogent organizing strategies, establish robust partnership networks and work effectively in service of the LGBTQI+ community and inspire all who strive for equality and justice.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\"Alba\n

\n\t\tAlba Rueda\n\t<\/h4>\n\t

Alba Rueda (she\/her) is a Trans Activist at Mujeres Trans Argentina. She was the first Special Representative on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Worship of Argentina, and the first Undersecretary of Diversity Policies of the Nation, at the founding moment of the Ministry of Women, Gender and Diversity. In these roles, she promoted inclusion and integration policies, coordinated actions for strengthening access to health care, and promoted employment of the LGBTIQ+ population. As Special Representative on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity, she worked on the promotion of trans employment in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Worship, participated in numerous international LGBTIQ+ human rights activities, and promoted the recognition of trans rights and decriminalization of LGBTIQ+ people. In 2021 the BBC named her as one of 100 women “playing a role in reinventing society, culture and the world”. In 2022, Time Magazine included her on the Time 100 Next list (100 leaders of the future). In 2023, the U.S. Department of State honoured Alba Rueda as one of the Women of Courage for her foreign policy and trans activism work.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\"Candy\n

\n\t\tCandy Yun\n\t<\/h4>\n\t

Candy Yun (she\/her) is an LGBTIQ+ human rights activist. Candy is the executive director in the Korean Sexual Minority Culture and Rights Centre and bisexual representative of ILGA Asia. Candy is involved in various LGBTIQ+ activities both domestically and internationally such as advocacy, capacity building, social campaigning, organizing national conferences, human rights activism, research and lectures. She served as a steering committee member of Rainbow Action against Sexual-Minority Discrimination, the coalition group of LGBTIQ+ and allies’ organizations. Also she co-founded the Bi-Moim (now Bi-Magazine), a bisexual social meeting group, the Transgender Activist Group Jirung-e and transgender human rights activist group Jogakbo in Korea. She served as a co-chair of ILGA Asia from 2019 to 2022. Currently, Candy is focused on LGBTIQ+ aging, engaging in research, community building and organizing events to support LGBTIQ+ individuals in embracing their identities as they age.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2024 Awards Committee The International Pride Awards Committee, assembled by the UNDP and ILGA World, brings together a diverse group of global leaders dedicated to advancing LGBTIQ+ rights and inclusion. These experienced advocates represent a wide array of sectors, reflecting the breadth and depth of their commitment to equality and justice. Nate Brown Nate Brown…<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"slim_seo":{"title":"2024 Awards Committee - International Pride Awards","description":"2024 Awards Committee The International Pride Awards Committee, assembled by the UNDP and ILGA World, brings together a diverse group of global leaders dedicate"},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9391","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/internationalprideawards.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/internationalprideawards.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/internationalprideawards.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internationalprideawards.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internationalprideawards.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9391"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/internationalprideawards.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9603,"href":"https:\/\/internationalprideawards.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9391\/revisions\/9603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/internationalprideawards.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}