About the Author

Mathilde Simon

After studying political and social philosophy in Europe, both at the Sorbonne and at the London School of Economics and Political Science, Mathilde Simon worked on migrants and women’s rights and empowerment in Mexico and Colombia. She then studied a MA in Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation at SIT Graduate Institute in the United States, where she studied the Afghan conflict. She recently lived in Tanzania, working at a Children’s Home.