Garfias Camila
Camila Garfias was born in Vienna to a family of Chilean refugees who had fled fascist dictatorship in the 1970s. Coming from a political family, she started her political activism at the young age of eleven within AKS, the socialist pupil’s organisation, where she continued to work until she finished school.
At university she joined the socialist students of Austria (VSStÖ) and was elected president of the students union (ÖH Uni Wien) in 2014. Once finished her Bachelor at the University of Vienna in 2016 she started her Master’s degree in Economy at the University of Economics and Business of Vienna and became International secretary of VSStÖ.
Since 2017 she is vice president of SoHo, the social democratic LGBTIQ Organisation in Austria and PES Advisor for the PES Trainings Academy.
My Sessions
European Lesbian* Conference Welcome Reception
Phyll Opoku-Gyimah
Attilia Kiyoko Cernitori
Ulrike Lunacek
Malin Björk
Faika El-Nagashi
Angelika Silberbauer
Ewa Dziedzic
Garfias Camila
Introduction Lecture about & Concert with music of Ethel Smyth (1858-1944, lesbian composer and one of the first Suffragettes) Attilia Kiyoko Cernitori and Angelika Silberbauer (The University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna) In cooperation with the Department for Women Politics and Queer – Students Union at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna