Serena Colagrande has been working for Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) at the HQ in different positions and in the field since 2018. She is currently responsible for managing the public communications of the MSF mission in France, which focuses on providing multi-disciplinary care to unaccompanied minors. In 2021, as an Advocacy Manager for MSF in Libya, she oversaw the collection of migrants and refugees’ testimonies and coordinated the mission’s advocacy efforts in the field. Prior to joining MSF, she spent two years in Ukraine working for a local NGO to implement projects targeting orphan children from the Donbass and IDPs in Kyiv. She holds a master’s degree in Political and Institutional Communications from the Sorbonne University in Paris.

Tanita Cotarcea is the National Protection Officer with UNHCR Romania, based in Bucharest. In this position she is overseeing, among other things, matters relating to asylum and reception centres’ monitoring (Quality Assurance Mechanism) and legal developments and comments relating to UNHCR’s mandate, as well as monitoring partnerships with relevant partners. Tanita has prior experience working with IOM as counter-trafficking programme manager in both Romania and Moldova and also has previous background from OHCHR in Geneva. She also has strong experience in legal research, protection advocacy and programme management and has previously delivered trainings on refugee law, counter-trafficking, as well as spoke at international conferences on topics of migration, trafficking in persons, and privacy.