The permanent team members are all transnational, intellectually rigorous and sensitive at once. Huri Up is blessed with focused and incredibly qualified professionals yet down to earth and in touch people, safe spaces for the complexity and the vulnerability inherent to our work. They are curious, humble life-long learners, and enthusiasts. They are the entry points to a wider network of reliable specialists partners, to ensure pluri-disciplinarity and situated expertise.
Eve Shahshahani, Huri Up’s founder, is an international human rights lawyer, expert in strategic litigation, but also a trainer and an activist, who has been defending fundamental rights for 20 years with several and often cumulative hats. Her work with and for survivors of torture and political violence has taken her on human and legal battles and campaigns, from the harshest fields (eg. Greek Islands hotspots, Mayotte, Calais, Nigeria) to the most institutional arenas (United Nations, European Court of Human Rights, national and European Courts and Parliaments).
She is multicultural in her core, a chameleon and a polyglot, an empathetic and mosaic nerd.
She holds degrees in Law (Paris and New York Bar), transnational criminology, psychotraumatology, and ergonomics and is fluent in 6 languages.
Salomé Linglet co-conceived Huri Up. She is a project, teams and community coordinator and an expert in social work and legal support against violations of fundamental rights.
She has been working for national and international human rights and humanitarian NGOs with specific focuses on exile, housing, police violence, gender violence and discrimination, and violence against sex worker in Europe and Latin America.
She knows the fine art of bringing people to a common objective, while standing her and other people’s ground for dignity and justice.
Sibel Agrali co-founded the Centre Primo Levi and has since managed its care center, a pioneer in health and psychosocial work for victims of torture and and political violence.
She is a lead reference in the pluridisciplinary and global approach to trauma and systemic and individual fights for justice in transcultural contexts.
She listens even when it is quiet, is wise by experience and generosity.
Chowra Makaremi is an anthropologist, a researcher, a writer and a feminist organiser.
She turns despair and anger into hope, the most humanistic form of resistance.
She specialised in the study of state violence and its impact on the civil and private spheres of society and on feminist resistance, especially in Iran, from the early days of the islamic dictatorship to today’s decolonial revolutionary movements.
Nepthys Zwer is a historian, a cartographer and a writer.
She challenges power dynamics and dominant narratives through visual representations of information, and empowers non profit actors and communities via critical mapping workshops and through her collaborative and independent website imago mundi.
Dimitris Alexakis is a prose and theatre writer, a polymorphic artist, and a politist. With Fotini Banou, they co-founded the KET, in Athens, a place of resistance through art and community organising. His works and analyses address the impact of abuses by private and public actors on climate and social justice, the rights of people in exile and of the “unwanted” citizens.