Nelli Ruotsalainen, M.A. is one of the founding members of the Finnish Feminist Party and serves currently as one of the vice representative of the party to the Helsinki Municipal council. She has a BA in Women’s Studies from the University of Rhode Island and an MA in Gender Studies from the University of Helsinki. She is enrolled as a PhD student at the University of Helsinki in the Gender, Society, Culture Doctoral Program.
Currently she works at Seta ry, the organization for LGBTQI rights in Finland. She has conducted several workshops on feminism and in this past year also completed a year long course on feminist pedagogies for the university setting. She is particulary interested in the relationship between feminist activism and academia. This fall she will publish her first poetry collection that is deelpy grounded in making the personal poltical, but also making feminist theory accessible.
Nelli will hold two workshops at the summer school. One about the connection of feminist research and political activism and the second one about how to live a feminist life.
https://www.nelliruotsalainen.com/