Aliki Kosyfologou holds a Ph.D. in political science and sociology. Her interdisciplinary research interests include political analysis, social theory, gender theory, feminist politics, culture and film. She is the author of several studies on the social and gendered impact of austerity in Europe and Greece. She is co-author of the book Άπιαστη Μητρότητα: Σύγχρονες όψεις της μητρότητας σε συνθήκες κρίσης (Εκδόσεις Πλήθος, 2023). Her publications include The Gendered Aspects of the Austerity Regime in Greece: 2010-2017, Women’s Status in a Struggling Greek Economy: The Terrifying Fall of a Society’s Progress, and Vulnerable Equality in Times of Pandemic. She has published several articles in edited volumes on gender and feminist politics, culture and ideology (a list with some of her publications available here). She has lived and conducted social field research in the MENA region and has demonstrable experience in gender development projects and social impact assessment studies. During her stay in the region, she was an author and contributor to the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation’s research and analysis project on the Middle East, Arabic and West Asia (West Asia). Some of her contributions to this project are available here. She is a founding member of an activist feminist group in Athens and editor of a feminist magazine. She is also a member of the editorial board of Jacobin.gr. She currently works as a gender impact assessment expert and gender equality strategy consultant for the Independent Power Transmission Operator in Greece.

Eliana Kanaveli was born in 1981 in Ioannina. She graduated from the Department of Philosophy, Pedagogy and Psychology of the University of Ioannina. She holds a Master’s degree in Sociology from the Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences and a Ph.D. in Sociology from the Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences. She works as a secondary school teacher, teaching literature courses.
She has worked as a researcher on gender issues at the University of Ioannina. In 2016, in collaboration with the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation and the NGO Diotima, she conducted the research entitled: “Mapping the feminist movement in Greece: Ideological and political quests and their contribution to public space and discourse”. In 2022 she participated in the collective volume: “What to do. Reflections on the Restart of Radical Politics” with a text co-authored with Aliki Kosyfologou entitled “Feminism on the edge: reflections on an assertive politics in crisis” (Themelio publications).
In 2023, the book she co-authored with Aliki Kosyfologou was published: “Elusive Motherhood: Contemporary Perspectives on Motherhood in Times of Crisis” (Plethos Publications) (Άπιαστη Μητρότητα: Σύγχρονες όψεις της μητρότητας σε συνθήκες κρίσης).
She is a founding member of the feminist and LGBTQ group Kouri@ and has been actively involved in the feminist movement in Greece since 2008.