Hayat Mirshad is a Feminist and human rights activist, researcher, trainer and journalist. She is the Co-founder and Head of Programs at FE-MALE, a non-profit feminist collective. Ms. Mirshad is a board member and Head of communications at the Lebanese Women Democratic Gathering and editor in Chief for Sharika wa Laken feminist online platform. She is a Member of the Technical Advisory Group – Empowered Aid, Lebanon- established by The Global Women’s Institute (GWI) at the George Washington University in Washington, DC, USA and she has Worked as an editor and anchor at Sawt Al Shaab Lebanese radio station and as a freelance reporter for social talk shows at Aljadeed TV and OTV.