Jury
Prof. Miriam Coronel Ferrer
Miriam Coronel Ferrer is a founding member of the Southeast Asian Women Peace Mediators. She was a member of the UN Standby Team of Mediators for three years where she did mediation support work for UN missions in countries like Afghanistan, Maldives, Iraq, and Georgia. Previously, she headed the government panel that negotiated and signed the 2014 Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB) with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front.
A retired professor of politics at the University of the Philippines (UP), she once served as director of the Third World Studies Center and convener of UP鈥檚 Program on Peace, Democratization and Human Rights. She had also served as visiting professor in several Asian universities.
Currently, she sits as a member of the board of trustees of the International Crisis Group (ICG), and Geneva-based Interpeace. She sits in the advisory boards of the Global Network of Women Peacebuilders in New York, the Peace Treaty Initiative of the Institute for Integrated Transitions (IFIT) in Barcelona, and the Negotiations Strategies Institute at Harvard University.
She was listed among five Filipino women in the Forbes Asia 2024 List of 50 over 50. Prof. Ferrer has published several books and academic journal articles on democratization, civil society, human rights, and peace processes in the Philippines and Southeast Asia. She was founding co-chair of the Non-State Actors Working Group of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines from 1999-2004, and was one of 27 Filipinas among the 1,000 Women for the Nobel Peace Prize nominated in 2005.
Aly Ndiaye / Webster
Aly Ndiaye, aka Webster, is a veteran of the Quebec hip-hop scene. Active since 1995, he now gives concerts, creative writing workshops and lectures all over the world. Passionate about history, the Limoilou rapper is particularly interested in slavery and the presence of people of African descent in Quebec and Canada since the times of New France. Webster is the author of a hip-hop writing manual, 脌 l'Ombre des Feuilles (Qu茅bec Am茅rique, 2019), and a children's book, Le Grain de Sable (Septentrion, 2019), about Olivier Le Jeune, the first African slave in Canada. He was also the curator of the exhibition Fugitifs! presented at the Mus茅e National des Beaux-Arts du Qu茅bec in 2019.
Evelina Cabrera
Evelina Cabrera is an Argentinian soccer coach and activist who promotes equality and education through sport. In 2013, she founded the Argentine Women's Soccer Association (AFFAR). Two years later, she organized and trained the first blind-women's soccer team in Buenos Aires and its National team. In 2017, she brought inclusion soccer to women prisons in Argentina. In 2021, she became the first woman in Mexico to be an assistant coach in men's professional soccer.
The Economist Magazine chose her as one of the future influential young people in South America. Ernst & Young Global Ltd. (EY) chose her as the Social Entrepreneur of the year in Argentina for 2021.
Evelina has been recognized for her impact, speaking at the United Nations Youth Assembly in NYC, the W20 Summit. In 2020, the BBC (London) chose her as one of the 100 most influential women in the world.
She has written 3 books promoting values and education. Currently, she serves as the Goodwill Ambassador of Equity in Sport for the Organization of American States and is a member of the Board of Directors of the America Scores a non-profit that focuses on youth empowerment and soccer.
