Gabi Calleja is the Coordinator of the Malta Gay Rights Movement and has been involved in advocacy work, training, awareness raising and support to the LGBT community since 2003.
She was elected to ILGA-Europe's executive board in 2010. She read for her Masters in Youth and Community Studies at the University of Malta and is a senior executive within the Maltese public sector.
Student by day, LGBTQI etc etc activist by night, David joined the activism scene in 2010 as one of the founding members of We Are, the university's LGBTQI student organisation. Since then he has left We Are and joined MGRM where he started aiding in the fields of communication.
In November 2011 David was co-opted as MGRM's treasurer. When he's not being one of many faces of activism, David is finishing up his education at the University of Malta, where he's finishing off his degree, studying B.Communications (hons) with psychology. He hopes to eventually carry on to do a Masters in corporate communications. He is on his way to becoming a crazy cat person, since he has 10 of his own.
Ruth has been actively involved in queer activism / academic fields since 2003. Zie occupied different posts on the Executive Committee of MGRM since 2003, including Administrator and more recently, Trans Rights Officer. Ruth was Secretary General of IGLYO (International LGBTQ Youth and Student Organisation) between 2003 and 2005, an Executive Board member of ILGA-Europe between 2006 and 2010; and has been one of the two European Representatives on the ILGA World Executive Board since 2005.
Ruth is Visiting Lecturer at the University of Malta where zie teaches Queer Studies within the Department of Sociology and works as Senior Executive within the Maltese public sector. Zie read for a B.A. (Hons) in Sociology at the University of Malta, an M.A in Women's Studies (University College Dublin) and currently finishing their PhD (Sociology) on queer migration within Trinity College Dublin.
Dr. Neil Falzon graduated as a lawyer from the University of Malta in 2001. He further specialised his studies by pursuing a Masters degree in Human Rights and Democratisation at the University of Malta and the Raoul Wallenberg Institute for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (Sweden).
For four years Neil headed the Malta office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and currently practices as an independent human rights lawyer and consultant, in various including asylum and migration, and LGBTI.
In early 2011 Neil established aditus, a Malta-based human rights NGO with the primary aim of monitoring, reporting and acting on the levels of access to human rights by individuals and groups.
Neil is also Visiting Assistant Lecturer at the University of Malta, where he lectures International Human Rights Law, EU Migration and Asylum Law, and Contemporary Issues in Mediterranean Migration. He regularly blogs about the European Asylum Support Office on his EASO Monitor blog. Neil is MGRM's legal advisor.