Tess de Rooij is a PPLE alumna with an academic background in political science, medical anthropology, and philosophy. She co-founded THIS IS GENDERED, an intersectional feminist platform that explores how gender shapes everyday objects, ideas, institutions, and social norms. She led the team for nearly five years. Previously, she worked at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on women’s rights, gender equality, and open government. She currently works there as a policy researcher on development issues, including global health, women’s rights, and migration.

Loes van Rijn–van Gelderen is an Associate Professor at the University of Amsterdam. Her research focuses on how parenting, parent–child relationships and diverse family structures influence children’s social, emotional and behavioural development. She studies, among other topics, families with same-sex parents, parenting stress, attachment and the effectiveness of parenting interventions across a range of family contexts. Using both quantitative and qualitative methods, she aims to better understand the factors that support the healthy development of children and families.