Ewa K. Strzelecka holds a PhD in Social Science and four Master’s degrees in Cultural and Religious Studies, Social Anthropology, Gender and International Development, and Migration and Social Intervention. She has lived, studied and worked in more than 15 countries across the world. She has extensive experience at the crossroads between academic research, development practice and policy advising. Before she moved to the Netherlands in 2021, she was an Associate Professor in Political Science at the University of Granada in Spain. Currently, she is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam where she leads the EU-funded project on Rethinking Peace-building: women, revolution, exile and conflict resolution in Yemen. She is an award-winning author of many articles and books about women's rights movements, conflict and peace studies, international development, transnational activism, and the complexity of socio-political change in the Middle East and North Africa. An extended version of her PhD thesis was published as a book entitled Women in the Arab Spring: the Construction of a Political Culture of Feminist Resistance in Yemen (in Spanish: Mujeres en la Primavera Árabe: construcción de una cultura política de resistencia feminista en Yemen, 2017).