WAVE Office
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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Léa Dudouet
Office Administrator & Project Assistant
Léa Dudouet recently completed her MPhil in the Reproductive Sociology Research Group at the University of Cambridge. Her thesis focused on the use and experiences fertility-related apps which can be used to avoid pregnancy through qualitative interviews with women based in the UK, in order to understand the role of technology in contraceptive decision-making. Prior to this Léa completed her BSc in Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2018, graduating with First Class Honors. Her studies were geared towards intersecting aspects of sociology, focusing on gender, race and sexuality. She was also the treasurer of the Intersectional Feminist Society for two years and acted as a Consent Champion in her final year where she helped facilitate consent and active by-stander workshops and campaigned to introduce mandatory consent training for all incoming students.
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Aside from academia, Léa have been involved with different feminist groups and non-profit organisations both in London as well as in Berlin. In 2018, she interned on a voluntary basis at Frauenkreise, a Berlin-based government-funded feminist project committed to creating a space for intercultural feminist work from an intersectional and antiracist standpoint. Léa has additionally worked at the Berghof Foundation, an independent, non-profit organisation that supports efforts to prevent political and social violence worldwide, and to achieve sustainable peace through conflict transformation.
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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.
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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
Grant Development & Advisory Board Coordinator
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 interim Grant Development and Advisory Board Coordinator, 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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Elizabeth Spouse
Data Manager & Researcher
Elizabeth has a Bachelor’s degree in Communications and Political Science from the University of Washington in Seattle, and is currently completing her Master’s of International Development at the University of Vienna with a focus on Gender Studies. She is responsible for research and database administration; ensuring effective data collection for, as well as the creation of the WAVE Country Report. In addition, she manages the WAVE Fempower Magazine and the WAVE Newsletter, and is the co-organizer of the WAVE Gender Neutrality Working Group.
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Renate Tomenendal
Accountant
After her traineeship in the retail trade and several years in this area as a manager, Renate Tomenendal completed a part time training course to become a proofed and graduated balance accountant and personnel accountant. After completing this training, I switched to a job as an accountant. After the birth of her son and her maternity leave, Renate resumed her employment in 2014 at WAVE, where she has now been working in the non-profit sector for 6 years. Currently she is working for the non-profit women’s rights associations AÖF and WAVE. In her very demanding job she is responsible for accounting, personnel administration, balance sheets, budgeting and reporting. As such, her working day is not only very varied but also entertaining and fulfilling.
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Mária Trubanová
WAVE Office Intern
I finished my Master degree from political sciences and international relations at the Comenius University in Bratislava. During my studies, I have gained extensive knowledge from different spheres, mostly focused on international relations, international law, research, but also on gender equality policies, sexuality in public policies and many more. Moreover, I was able to study abroad thanks to the Erasmus+ Programme in Budapest, Hungary. During my Master degree I started to be deeply interested in the gender equality policies and the issue of violence against women and children.
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Katarina Višnar
Campaign Coordinator
Katarina Višnar has a PhD in architecture. Throughout her extensive and colourful professional career, her work has been centring around enhancing community engagement within the sphere of urban planning and conservation, sustainable development and now protection of women’s rights.