Antonia Baskakov is the Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director of the Women in Foreign Affairs Network. She worked on European tech sovereignty at Rebuild, a European initiative under the patronage of Margrethe Vestager, led feminist development policy work at The ONE Campaign, an international NGO fighting extreme poverty, and served as Strategic Advisor to the Executive Director of Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy. Antonia has also served as Europe Youth Envoy for the United Nations’ International Telecommunication Union (ITU), worked on the implementation of the Digital Services Act at Possible Digital, a public sector consultancy, and conducted research at the University of California, Berkeley and Stanford Law School. She publishes on foreign, development, and tech policy from a feminist perspective, including in Der Tagesspiegel, The Fletcher Journal of Human Security, and Internationale Politik. In 2026, she was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe list in the Social Impact category. She is a graduate of Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, where she specialized in Responsible AI.

Sofie Lilli Stoffel is the Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director of the Women in Foreign Affairs Network. She is the Head of Foreign Policy and Security at the Heinrich-Böll-Foundation and a non-resident fellow with the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) in Berlin and was a McCloy fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government from 2022 to 2024. Previously, she was a research associate with GPPi, where she contributed to the institute’s work on humanitarian action and peace and security. Her research focuses on foreign and security policy with a special focus on intergenerational cycles of violence and children in conflict. She has been a panelist and moderator at events such as Germany’s G7 Citizens’ Dialogue, the German Forum on Security Policy, and the International Humanitarian Studies Conference. Her analysis has been featured in The National Interest, Der Tagesspiegel, Alternatives Humanitaires, Policy Corner, and the PeaceLab blog, among others. In 2026, she was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe list in the Social Impact category. Sofie holds a bachelor’s degree in liberal arts and sciences with a focus on international relations, conflict studies and child protection from the honors program at Maastricht University.

Clara Stevens is the Executive Assistant for the Women in Foreign Affairs Network. She is a student of international affairs at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, where she explores how culture, politics, and education policy shape global and domestic governance. Passionate about reducing education inequality, she co-founded Civic Leaders of America, a national non-profit aimed at provide civic education and public speaking opportunities to high school students. At Georgetown, she is working to expand dialogue opportunities in her community by partnering with the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs to launch the Leadership Dialogue Training Program, a curriculum designed to equip student leaders and educators with dialogue, facilitation, and conflict-resolution skills. In her free time, she is the Community Service Chair of the Delta Phi Epsilon Professional Foreign Service Sorority and tutors 3rd grade reading as a Teach for America Ignite Fellow.

Julika Holdmann is the Alumni Engagement Manager for the Women in Foreign Affairs Network. She specializes in EU trade and security policy, with a particular focus on sustainability and inclusivity. Recently, she accepted a position at the European Commission, where she works on EU trade policy and sustainable development. Previously, Julika served as a junior policy officer at the German Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs and as a project manager at the Federal Foreign Office. She also gained professional experience with Gender Associations International Consulting and has held several research positions throughout her career. Julika holds a master’s degree in international affairs from the Hertie School of Governance, where she graduated with distinction, focusing on EU foreign policy. Before, she earned her bachelor’s degree in social sciences, specializing in international relations, gender, peace, and security, from Humboldt-Universität in Berlin.

Estelle Paulus is one of the cohort facilitators of the Women in Foreign Affairs Network. Estelle  is currently pursuing a PhD at the Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford, where she investigates food‑system resilience through complexity and systems theory. In 2024, she was invited as a Junior Visiting Fellow to the Philanthropy Chair, ESSEC Business School, examining how foundations engage with food‑related issues. Beyond her PhD, she has contributed to research on nature‑related financial risks in partnership with the Bank of England. Furthermore, she works for the Sustainability Team of the Youth Think Tank Neon Blau, founded by the National Association of German Cooperative Banks. Estelle earned a master’s degree in Mathematical and Theoretical Physics from the University of Oxford and a bachelor’s degree in Physics from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. Beginning in March 2026, she will commence a Blue Book traineeship with the European Commission’sDirectorate‑General for Climate Action, working on their resilience strategy (DG CLIMA).

Skyler McFarlane is is one of the cohort facilitators of the Women in Foreign Affairs Network. She holds a master’s degree in Social Sciences from FLACSO Argentina, Chulalongkorn University, and the University of Freiburg, where she also mentored graduate students. Skyler specializes in migrant justice, women’s and children’s rights, and conflict resolution. She worked at the California Attorney General’s Office on Hague international child abduction cases and supported the development of a Mexico-California binational mediation pilot program, conducting yearlong research on mediation’s potential. Upon completing her master’s, Skyler volunteered to strengthen US civic participation and she interned for the California State Assembly. Currently, she is a PLUS scholar for the Law School Admissions Council, with plans to pursue international human rights law. Skyler earned her bachelor’s in Global Studies and German from the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she was a longtime student leader for the American Committees on Foreign Relations, Channel City Club.