Elena Petrovska

Elena Petrovska

North Macedonia

In her focus are LGBTI activism, feminism, *women’s rights. She has been acting in this area since 2013 as a member of the lesbian-feminist activist group “LezFem” from Skopje, and in 2016 she worked as manager of the Shelter Center “Safe House” for protection of LGBTI people, victims of violence at the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights – LGBTI Support Center.
She actively works on the challenge on how to improve lesbian visibility in North Macedonia, working on organizing events, projects, research, empowering new lesbian activist to join the movement etc. Her focus in the following period will be improving the access and skills of the lesbian community for comprehensive sexuality education.

She is engaged in HERA (Health education and research association) team at the beginning of 2018 as a project coordinator of the LGBTI advocacy program. She also works on the advocacy program for Comprehensive sexuality education implementation in the formal educational system in North Macedonia.

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