Inna Michaeli is a feminist scholar, writer and activist, who works at the intersections of gender and sexual politics, economic inequalities, anti-colonial politics and migration. Her political writing is an original feminist voice on a range of pressing and contested social issues, from lesbian gender politics to antisemitism and Palestine.

Inna’s book ‘Women’s Economic Empowerment: Feminism, Neoliberalism, and the State’ (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) is based on her magna cum laude doctoral dissertation, from the Humboldt University of Berlin. It interrogates the complexities of women’s empowerment in political and economic contexts, national and global, that continue to disempower racialised and migrant women along the lines of gender, race, ethnicity and class.

Inna has started her activism two decades ago, when at the age of 17 she has moderated a LGBT+ youth online community. In 2004, she has co-founded a project of feminist and political education by and for migrant women. She is also a Board Member of the Jewish Voice for a Just Peace (Germany). Since 2022, Inna serves as Co-Executive Director at AWID, a global feminist organisation supporting feminist movements worldwide.

Inna is based in Berlin, Germany, raised in Haifa, Palestine/Israel, and born in St. Petersburg, Russia.