WAVE Office
Claire Davis
WAVE Office Intern
Claire holds a BA in Global Studies from Drexel University (Philadelphia, PA) and is currently pursuing an MA in Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid at the Paris School of International Affairs of SciencesPo Paris. She has volunteered in various fields, including non-profit, publication and teaching in the US, France and Cambodia. Claire hopes to work in an international organisation aiming to protect women´s and children´s rights. Claire is interested in questions of human rights protection from a legal perspective.
Anca Ciupa
Membership & Legal Project Coordinator
Anca Ciupa has a Bachelor’s Degree in Law at the Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania and a Master’s Degree in European and National Business Law also obtained in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, Babes-Bolyai University. Additionally, Anca has obtained a postgraduate diploma in International Relations at the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna in June 2014. Before working at WAVE, Anca was a co-author on a research project, “Analysis of the draft law to permit the Rosia Montana mining proposal”,
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Andrada Filip
Data Manager & Analyst
Andrada Filip joined the WAVE office in September 2015. She did her BA in International Politics at the University of Surrey in the United Kingdom, and her MA in Political Science at the University of Vienna in Austria. She is also affiliated to a think-tank, the Human Security Centre, and to the Academic Council on the United Nations System. At the WAVE Office, Andrada has been working on the 2015 edition of the magazine FEMPOWER,
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Elena Floriani
Communications & Research Officer
Elena Floriani holds a Bachelor’s degree in Cultural mediation and a Master’s degree in Comparative international relations. After study and work experiences in Italy, France, Germany, Tanzania and Austria, she joined the WAVE office as Communication and Research Officer in May 2019. In the last years, Elena made of her interest in feminism and women’s rights her area of research and work. Following an experience in the field of development cooperation in Tanzania, she decided to focus her Master’s thesis on the legal protection of women’s rights in Africa, conducting a research on the recent developments of the African Union’s human rights system in the protection of women’s rights.
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After her graduation, Elena interned at WAVE for three months, a great opportunity to get familiar with the fight against VAW from a European perspective. Later on, she started working for one of WAVE’s members, the Domestic violence intervention center of Vienna, in the public affairs office. Elena is now collaborating with the WAVE team on data collection, publication of country reports and communication strategies for WAVE’s projects.
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Stephanie Futter-Orel
Executive Manager
Stephanie is passionate about fighting Violence Against Women and has a Master’s degree in Political Science from the University of Vienna as well as a Master’s degree in Development Management from the London School of Economics. Austrian by birth, she has lived in London for the past 9 years and worked for over 7 years in women’s specialist organisations dedicated to fighting Violence Against women (frontline roles as well as Senior Management).
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Maria Knaub
Office Administrator and Project Assistant
Maria has a Bachelor’s Degree in East Asian Studies and is currently finishing her Master’s in Development Studies at the University of Vienna. She is passionate about feminism, gender equality and social justice. Previously, she has worked in a variety of positions and industries, spanning from algorithm research to editorial offices. As WAVE’s Office Administrator and Project Assistant, she is looking forward to putting her prior experiences into social use for ending gender-based violence.
Beverly Mtui
Youth Ambassador Coordinator
Beverly Mtui is pursuing her Master’s in Development Studies as well as her second Bachelor’s degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Vienna. She did an exchange program with the Université de Genève in Switzerland, before volunteering at the Austrian Network for Refugees to teach German and English. In 2018, she interned with one of our Members “Work With Perpetrators European Network – WWP EN” for half a year. One of her main fields of interest is combatting human trafficking.
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Since 2018, she is volunteering for FOOTPRINT, a NGO based in Vienna that provides free social and legal advice as well as language courses to survivors of violence and/or human trafficking. She supports them as the head of the FOOTPRINT fundraising team. Besides being passionate about intersectional feminism and gender equality, she also believes in social equality. In March 2019, she co-founded a local radio programme highlighting Austro-African matters with the aim to empower BIPOC communities in Austria.
As the Youth Ambassadors Coordinator, she is working closely with the WAVE Youth Ambassadors in developing as well as implementing actions to highlight the importance of youth inclusion in promoting non-violence and gender equality, to effectively educate youth on gender-based violence and to support young people in becoming multipliers of positive change
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Lina Piskernik
Digital & Social Media Coordinator
Lina Piskernik is Digital & Social Media Coordinator, ensuring that WAVE’s many projects and achievements are as visible as possible across several social media networks. She is also Communications Coordinator for the Erasmus project DIS.CO & UN Women project CSSP, and assists the WAVE Step Up! campaign. She has a Bachelor degree in International Affairs & German from Florida State University as well as a Master of Science in International Relations & Environmental Technology from
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Corinne Schoch
WAVE Office Intern
Corinne holds a BA in Spanish and French from Drew University (Madison, NJ) and an MA in International Affairs from the New School (New York, NY). She is currently pursuing an MA in Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of York (UK) and the Universidad de Granada (Spain). She has worked in various fields, including non-profit and think tanks, and hopes to work in a social / public policy or research role which allows her to use her passion for both languages and women’s rights. Corinne is interested in questions of sexuality and gender, migration and sexual violence.