About us
The people behind it
CHANIPEN is held up by the people who founded it, the network of Romani professionals who write and review what we publish, and the organisations we work with inside and outside Spain.
Co-founders
The people who founded the association and sustain its work.
Fernando Ruiz Molina
Lawyer and criminologist. He is completing his PhD in Criminology at the University of Plymouth, within the NetHate consortium of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, on hate perpetration against the Roma people. LL.M. in Human Rights from the Central European University.
Maria Georgiana Dumitru
Researcher and Romani feminist activist, specialising in communication and gender studies. PhD candidate in social sciences at MF University in Norway, where her thesis studies Roma slavery in the principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia from a gender perspective.
Collaborators
A network of Romani researchers, linguists, teachers, artists and activists from different countries underpins much of what we produce. These are the people credited in the content published so far.
Allies and supporters
Organisations we work with or that back our projects.