Bio

Kumudini Samuel is from Sri Lanka and heads DAWN’s Political Restructuring and Social Transformation (PRST) thematic analysis team. Kumi is a co-founder and works at the Women & Media Collective, a feminist organisation advocating on legal and policy reform in relation to gender and sexuality, work, politics, and media. Her current focus is on post-conflict transitions and constitution-making. She has taken an interdisciplinary approach to her research and activism combining her interest in women’s rights, conflict transformation, gender, sexuality, and movement building. She has published on women’s engagement in peace processes, conflict transformation, and feminist movement building.