WIDE+ Secretariat
Gea Meijers is currently WIDE+’s General Coordinator. She has promoted feminism through WIDE(+)’s collective action since 2006. She previously worked for several international and national NGOs, promoting secularism and peace in the Netherlands, the UK and Belgium. She founded an international humanist youth network in 2002 that is currently existing as Young Humanists International. Within WIDE+ she has a special focus on feminist economic issues, including highlighting the interrelations between EU trade policy and economic gender discrimination, the discrimination faced by migrant women and digital discrimination. She has a bachelor in sociology and a master in international public policy from the United Nations University MERIT. She is currently also a local politician for a green party in Meerssen, the Netherlands (fractievoorzitter GroenLinks-PvdA). To get in touch with her, email her at info[at]wide-network.org, or gea.meijers23[at]gmail.com. A full bio can be found at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gea-meijers-2581087/
Stephanie Hö
glund is WIDE+’s Communications Officer. She holds experience within communication, social media and project coordination from the UN, NGOs and government institutions. As an advocate for equal rights and social justice, Stephanie sees it as her calling to leverage her personal and professional skills to contribute to changemaking. This, as well as her cross-cultural background from Sweden and the Philippines, is what has drawn her to work and volunteer for different humanitarian, social and development causes in Luxembourg, the Philippines, Ethiopia and Denmark. Envisioning a free, just and equal society, she has faith in her own and future generations to lead the way and bring the change needed. Stephanie has a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and Economics, and a Masters of Social Sciences in Development and International Relations. She is also currently completing a professional learning program by Google within User Experience. Get in touch with Stephanie at communication[at]wideplus.org and connect with her on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephaniehoeglund/.
Allis Millegård is currently secretary of the WIDE+ Gender and Migration working group and freelance consultant to WIDE+. She holds a Master’s degree in Global Studies from the University of Gothenburg, where she focused on issues related to migration and security. Allis has experience working with NGOs, specifically through her involvement with GADIP (Gender and Development in Practice) and previous work for WIDE+, coordinating the Gender and Migration Working Group, among other tasks. Her experience includes project work, writing and editing reports, and administrative tasks. She is fluent in Swedish, Spanish, and English, which allows her to support the Gender and Migration Working Group with communication and administration in different languages. Allis is motivated by supporting the networks that work for social justice and equality.
Gioia Buonsanti is currently secretary of the WIDE+’s Feminist Movement Building working group. She is a recent graduate with a Master’s degree in Human Rights and Multilevel Governance with a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science and International Relations. Her academic research focused on the shrinking of the civic space in EU countries and on gender issues, with a focus on gender stereotyping and conflict related sexual violence. She has volunteered with an anti-violence center in Italy and has been an intern with WIDE+ in 2025, focusing on the projects around gender and climate justice and reducing intersectional discrimination in algorithmic assisted hiring. She has taken part in the International Based Simulation Training on Combating trafficking in human beings organised by the OSCE in October 2025, mastering the importance of victim-centered and trauma-informed approaches in contexts of exploitation.
Maëlann Yvin is the secretary of the WIDE+ Feminist Popular Economic Education working group. She is currently studying a Master’s degree in Peace, Humanitarian Action and Development at Sciences Po Lille as part of a double degree with the University of Kent. She is writing her thesis for the Refugee Woman Center on how to introduce a Gender transformative approach in migratory transit through the case of the Franco-British border in Calais and Grande-Synthe. She was an intern with WIDE+ in 2025 and has remained an active member of the Gender and Migration and Feminist Popular Economic Education Working Groups. Connect with her on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/