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Jovana Djordjevic is a young feminist from Belgrade, Serbia. For four years, she worked with several women’s and youth organizations delivering training for youth on women’s rights, gender equality, sexual and reproductive rights and health. Jovana holds a Bachelor degree in Philology from the University of Belgrade and this year she has enrolled MA in Gender Studies at the University of Novi Sad. Parallel with her engagement with other organizations she worked within the project “Combating Sexual and Gender Based Violence” that was implemented by Gender Equality Directorate in cooperation with United Nations Development Programme in Serbia. Jovana is a co-founder of a young women’s organization Interkultivator that focuses on empowering young women by enhancing their participation in the area of information and communication technologies as a tool to bridge a gender gap in education, economy and access to information. Jovana is one of the creators of the young women’s platform for knowledge exchange that was supported by Reconstruction Women’s Fund. In the past two years, with her knowledge and love she supports the festival of feminist culture and action BeFem, which is being organized every year in Belgrade, and she is also engaged in other activities of this feminist group. Jovana is currently based in Belgrade, Serbia.