Milena Bacalja Perianes

Milena Bacalja Perianes

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University of Cambridge

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Exited Founder. Feminist Enterpreneur. Femtech Angel Investor. Gender Lens Investing…

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    London, England, United Kingdom

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    London, England, United Kingdom

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      London, England, United Kingdom

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      Amsterdam

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    London, England, United Kingdom

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    London, England, United Kingdom

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    London, England, United Kingdom

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    London, United Kingdom

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    London, United Kingdom

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    London, United Kingdom

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    London, United Kingdom

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    Durban Area, South Africa

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    Haarlem Area, Netherlands

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    Melbourne, Australia

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    Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

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    Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

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    Phnom Penh, Cambodia

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    Melbourne, Victoria

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    Melbourne, Australia

Education

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    Activities and Societies: Cambridge Australia Scholar President of the Centre for Global Equality Student Society

    Thesis: Menstruation, Gender and Power: Moving beyond a public health approach in Malawi.

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Volunteer Experience

  • Business Mentor

    Business Mentor

    Duke Innovation and Entrepreneurship Initiative

    - 7 months

    Economic Empowerment

    I am a Business Mentor for the Duke/UNICEF accelerator programme for their first cohort of menstrual health businesses.

  • Founding and Executive Member

    Commonwealth Youth Gender Equality Network (CYGEN)

    - 2 years 10 months

    Children

    The Commonwealth Youth Gender Equality Network (CYGEN) is a youth led, and focused network which actively promotes and supports the meaningful inclusion of youth voices on gender equality issues in local, national, regional, Commonwealth and international agendas.

    With CYGEN I have had the opportunity to advocate on behalf of young people in several international forum including: CHOGM 2015 The Women's Forum in Malta, and the Commonwealth Youth Ministers Meeting 2016 in Uganda.

  • Research Associate

    Research Associate

    GenPol: Gender & Policy Insights

    - 1 year 1 month

    Human Rights

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Publications

  • Investing with an LGBTIQ Lens, Rethinking Gender Analysis Across Investing Fields

    Criterion Institute

    Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex (LGBTQI) individuals around the world face
    inequities. Through integrating an LGBTQI lens into process, structure and analysis, investment can be a
    tool to address these inequities. Produced with the support of Dreilinden gGmbH, a German LGBTQI
    funder and impact investor, this guide sets out a theoretical grounding demonstrating why LGBTQI lens is germane to investment decision making and providing the tools needed to conduct…

    Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex (LGBTQI) individuals around the world face
    inequities. Through integrating an LGBTQI lens into process, structure and analysis, investment can be a
    tool to address these inequities. Produced with the support of Dreilinden gGmbH, a German LGBTQI
    funder and impact investor, this guide sets out a theoretical grounding demonstrating why LGBTQI lens is germane to investment decision making and providing the tools needed to conduct financial analyses. Investors currently investing with a gender lens would benefit from the integration of an LGBTQI lens to achieve their desired investment goals and their gender equality outcomes.

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  • The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Menstruation Studies

    Palgrave

    This seminal text if the first of its king and provides a comprehensive and carefully curated multidisciplinary and genre-spanning view of the state of the field of Critical Menstruation Studies, opening up new directions in research and advocacy.

    I have several entries within this text including:
    - Becoming Female: The Role of Menarche Rituals in “Making Women” in Malawi (co-authored with Dalitso Ndaferankhande)
    - Transnational Engagements: Smashing the Last Taboo—Caring…

    This seminal text if the first of its king and provides a comprehensive and carefully curated multidisciplinary and genre-spanning view of the state of the field of Critical Menstruation Studies, opening up new directions in research and advocacy.

    I have several entries within this text including:
    - Becoming Female: The Role of Menarche Rituals in “Making Women” in Malawi (co-authored with Dalitso Ndaferankhande)
    - Transnational Engagements: Smashing the Last Taboo—Caring Corporations in Conversation
    - Transnational Engagements: Women’s Experiences of Menopause (co-authored by Elizabeth Arveda Kissling)
    - Transnational Engagements: From Debasement, Disability, and Disaster to Dignity—Stories of Menstruation Under Challenging Conditions (Tomi-Ann Roberts)
    - Transnational Engagement: Designing an Ideal Menstrual Health (MH) Curriculum—Stories from the Field ( co-authored with Breanne Fahs)



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  • “Malawi Case Study: Demonstrations July 2011.” Case study for United Nations– World Bank Flagship Study, Pathways for Peace: Inclusive Approaches to Preventing Violent Conflict

    UN/ World Bank

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Languages

  • Spanish

    Limited working proficiency

  • English

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • French

    Elementary proficiency

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