Supervisory Board member

Rola Yasmine is a registered nurse and researcher living in Beirut and working on sexual politics, gender and reproductive justice, and movement building. Rola is also Advisory Board member for the International Fund at Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice. Since 2014, Rola founded and has been the executive director of a non-profit called The A Project. The A Project works on advancing a queer feminist political discourse around sexual and reproductive health and rights, affirming agency and autonomy in sexuality politics and reproductive justice, while seeking alternatives to counteract medical patriarchy. Rola has a Master of Science degree in Sexual and Reproductive Health Research (2009) from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSTHM) in the UK, and a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (2007) from the American University of Beirut in Lebanon.

Rola is Lebanese and currently lives in Beirut, Lebanon.