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Awareness-raising events are at the heart of what we do at SolidariTee. We regularly host talks, discussions and conferences which bring people together to learn more about migration and displacement, and to discuss avenues for lasting, compassionate solutions to better support refugees and displaced people. Scroll down to read about our upcoming and past events.
Events
Upcoming Event: Annual Conference 2026
Saturday 21st March, London
11am - 4:30pm
Our theme for this event is Responsibility.
Our signature event is back this spring! Bringing together activists and campaigners, NGO leaders, academics, artists, students and humanitarians, we invite everyone interested in participating in a space of learning, community, and solidarity to join us for an engaging, exploratory day focused on understanding and overcoming the barriers to an international migration system which upholds fundamental rights and safety as essentials, not as negotiables.
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Confirmed speakers include:
Zrinka Bralo, CEO of Migrants Organise​
The VOICES network
Vicky Tailor
Hannah Ward, External Affairs Lead at NACCOM
Elizabeth Mavropoulou, Lecturer in International Law at University of Westminster
Katy Fallon
Miranda Storm, BAOBAB
Seffi Walker, Co-Producer of Drag Down the Borders
Tilda Mallinson, Host of media storm podcast
As always, tickets are available on a donate what you can basis, or free of charge by emailing us. Follow the link to read more about the conference theme and reserve your space - we look forward to seeing you soon!
Zrinka Bralo
CEO, Migrants Organise
Zrinka Bralo has been the CEO of Migrants Organise since 2001. Migrants Organise is an award-winning grassroots platform where migrants and refugees organise together for dignity and justice. Migrants Organise provides advice and support for the most vulnerable individuals and families and facilitates numerous migrant justice campaigns such as the Patients Not Passports campaign for access to health care, Promote the Migrant Vote campaign to build electoral power, and the most recent Solidarity Knows No Borders community and the Fair Immigration Movement Charter a call for dignity, justice and welcome for all migrants, refugees and communities of arrival.
Zrinka is a refugee from Sarajevo, where she was a journalist and worked with leading war correspondents during the siege of Sarajevo in the 90s. She is the winner of the 2011 Voices of Courage Award by the Women’s Refugee Commission in New York. Having learned from the US immigrant justice organisers, in 2014, she pioneered a new model of grassroots migrant organising in the UK, which combines organising and campaigning for systemic change with direct access to justice - advice and support for people affected by the Hostile Environment immigration policy. Zrinka holds an MSc in Media and Communications from the London School of Economics and is a 2014 Churchill Fellow. In 2022, she was awarded an honorary doctorate (DLitt) by the University of Exeter.
Read more about some of the speakers who'll be joining us below!
Steffi Walker
Co-producer, Drag Down the Borders
Steffi Walker (they/she) performs as award winning drag priest Sweet FA (@sweetfa_drag) and is a co-producer of Drag Down the Borders (@dragdowntheborders) a co-organiser of drag choir the Male Gayze; an organiser and volunteer across various grassroots organisations; and is a director,actor, puppeteer, and theatremaker.
Drag Down the Borders puts on shows full of queer joy and solidarity, showcasing incredible drag, burlesque, cabaret and DJ talent. We run fundraising nights with raffles and clothing collections, to raise money in solidarity with migrants, people seeking asylum and refugees. These funds go to people facing cruel immigration policies and to organisations resisting and dismantling these policies and borders. We’ve also hosted and produced performances at: Homotopia, Beats Not Borders, Queer Migrant Pride Festival, Queer House Party, the London Migration Film Festival, and at several protests such as Trans Pride and No Pride in Genocide. We believe in actionable solidarity between and across minoritised communities, and that nobody's free until everybody's free.
In addition to having a show and a DJ, Drag Down the Borders also has stalls for the organisations being fundraised for and local initiatives that resist harmful immigration policies like local antiraids groups and copwatch groups so audience members can learn how to get involved. They are fundraising shows but they are also community spaces where people can actually join up to organisations and get involved IRL, not just on social media.
We are part of a proud heritage of queer nightlife as a way of providing care and community, we co-produce sellout Eurovision boycott shows in collaboration with Miss Ellanous and Panic! At the Drag Show.
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Hannah Ward
External Affairs Lead, NACCOM
Hannah leads External Affairs for NACCOM, a national network of over 130 frontline organisations across the UK working together to end destitution in the asylum and immigration system. NACCOM members provide accommodation and vital support to people seeking asylum, refugees and other migrants who face barriers to accessing statutory funds and services because of their immigration status. Together, the network campaigns and shares learning, innovation and resources across the membership.
Hannah has over 20 years’ experience in policy influencing and strategic communications on a range of refugee, health, peace and social justice issues. She has worked across the refugee and migrant sector, overseeing campaigns and communications at Freedom from Torture to defend and champion the rights of torture survivors in the UK and globally, and at the Refugee Council, where she led media work for several years. She has held a number of trustee and non-executive director roles in the voluntary sector including for Hackney Migrant Centre, a frontline organisation supporting asylum seekers and vulnerable migrants in London.
Elizabeth Mavropoulou
Lecturer, University of Westminster
Elizabeth Mavropoulou studied law in Athens (LLB). She is a Greek qualified attorney at law (non-practising). In 2014, she completed her postgraduate degree in International Law at the University of Westminster and she was awarded her PhD in Law in 2021 by the University of Westminster. She is the author of the book Responsibility Sharing in International Refugee Law; Towards Differentiated Legal Obligations (Brill 2025) and she has a track record of publications within and outside academia. Elizabeth research has fed into international, regional and national policy debates on refugee protection, asylum and migration.
Before joining academia full-time, Elizabeth held visiting lecturer positions at Westminster and at University of London (School of Advanced Legal Studies). She combined her academic research with eight years of experience working for a human rights NGO, leading its research and advocacy work and overseeing its programmes. She currently sits on the advisory board of Human Rights at Sea, as Non-Executive Director (NED).
Tilda Mallinson
Host, Media Storm Podcast
Mathilda is currently the host of Media Storm podcast, which centres lived experience in current affairs debates, and a journalist at Middle East Eye, where Mathilda covers war and displacement and recently reported from on board the Global Sumud Flotilla to Gaza. Mathilda does a lot of immigration myth-busting on her social media. Mathilda previously coordinated Refugee Media Centre as a voluntary network while she was working at the Evening Standard - Mathilda started it because she took issue with the lack of lived experience in our coverage of displacement. Before becoming a journalist, Mathilda was a refugee aid worker in the Calais/Dunkirk Jungle and South Africa. Mathilda has since reported on immigration for a wide range of national outlets - you can see her portfolio here: https://mathildamallinson.com/ .
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Vicky Taylor
​Dr Vicky Taylor is a researcher whose work focuses on the criminalisation of people seeking asylum in the UK. Her research has been cited in major news outlets, parliamentary debates, and communications from the UN Special Rapporteur on Migrants Rights to the UK Government. Vicky has a decade of experience working with asylum NGOs on both sides of the Channel, and now works collaboratively with groups supporting those criminalised for crossing borders. She was previously Director of Screen Share UK, an organisation dedicated to tackling the digital divide experienced by people seeking safety in the UK. Vicky also previously worked as a Senior Researcher in the Civil Service on issues of asylum, refugee, and resettlement policy. Vicky is now training to be a solicitor at Bhatt Murphy solicitors.
Bryony Cribb
Office Manager, Baobab
​Bryony Cribb is the Office Manager at the Baobab Centre, managing the administrative team and supporting MDT work as Clinical Administrator. In her role, Bryony works with the Clinical and Casework leads to coordinate the referrals process; supports Baobab's psychotherapists, group workers, and caseworkers to ensure effective support for young people at Baobab; and works with all at the organisation to ensure a safe space for the entire community. Bryony also oversees Baobab's psychosocial activity programme to create opportunities for social connection and skill-building.
Bryony studied International Relations at the University of Edinburgh before completing a Master's in Conflict Resolution at King's College London. During her Master's she undertook a placement with Citizens UK, campaigning for better access to primary healthcare for people seeking asylum in Lewisham and Bromley. Bryony then went on to join City of Sanctuary to provide practical support for newly granted refugees and later supported their employment programme. After taking a step away from the refugee sector to coordinate a regional project addressing bed poverty, Bryony joined Baobab in October 2025.
Miranda Stone
Adminsitrative Assistant, Baobab
​Miranda Stone is an administrative assistant at the Baobab Centre. The Baobab Centre is a therapeutic community that supports young refugees and asylum seekers who have arrived in the UK unaccompanied and experienced child and adolescent specific human rights abuses. The Baobab Centre provides holistic and multidisciplinary support through both individual and group psychotherapy, social casework support and psychosocial community activities. The Baobab Centre aims to holistically assess the complex needs of each young person, ensuring that all supports and interventions are interconnected. Ongoing cases are discussed in the presence of all professional involved, with each contributing to the treatment and safe integration of the young person. They support our young people to start their journey to thrive in society, they fight for young asylum seekers rights, needs and rehabilitation.
Miranda works on the administrative team who focuses on supporting clinicians and caseworkers in their work with young people, plan psychosocial activities such as community meetings and outings for the young people and staff and facilitate a warm and comfortable environment surrounding the other support young people at Baobab receive.
Miranda is graduate from the University of Birmingham with a degree in Politics and Philosophy. She is now alongside her work at The Baobab Centre is studying her MA in Geopolitics, Resources and Territory at King’s College London.
