Mireia Rimbau is part of our team as the Head of Development, focusing on migration, communities & diversity. She is currently doing a Master’s degree in International Studies, Security & Development. She earned her Bachelor’s degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Barcelona. During her time in university, she interned with an organisation that promotes Indigenous people rights and self-determination in Barcelona and works with indigenous associations in Latin America called Alternativa Intercanvi amb Pobles Indígenes, and she also got to know the situation of Indigenous people in the north of Brasil on a personal level.

She has been deeply involved in the defense of movement and human rights of migrants and asylum seekers. In Barcelona, she volunteered with Barcelonactua and she was part of a team that conducted research on Senegalese men and their life stories of migration, as well as their self-made brand, TopManta. In Lesbos and Patras, Greece, she volunteered with ShowerPower and No Name Kitchen, her responsibilities included supporting refugees and people on the move with showers and food distribution, creating content for social media and reporting pushbacks and violence at European borders.