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Doug A. Graffeo (they/them) is Senior Officer at the Secretariat of the Equal Rights Coalition, hosted at ILGA World.

Originally from Caracas, Venezuela, Doug is an accomplished rights defender, researcher, and social scientist in the fields of LGBTQI+ rights and intersectional feminist justice. As a human geographer by trade, Doug excels at providing critical analyses of complex social and political dynamics in a variety of contexts and at a diversity of scales. Their perspective is also informed by their lived experience as a non-binary, transfeminine, mixed-race person with a history of migration and class struggle.

Doug has collaborated with organisations working on human rights and justice from the grassroots level and academia all the way to the multilateral scene. In recent years, Doug has worked alongside international organisations and mechanisms in the pursuit of equal rights and freedom for all LGBTQI+ people. Prior to joining ILGA World, Doug was the Equal Rights Coalition Officer at LSVD+, co-chairs of this mechanism from 2022 to 2024.

Doug holds a Master of Arts in Sexual Diversity Studies and Human Geography from the University of Toronto, where they also obtained their Bachelor of Arts in Urban Studies. Prior to leaving Venezuela, Doug attended the School of International Studies at the Central University of Venezuela.