Alex McCarthy (she/her) is a feminist activist and writer/editor from Malaysia and the USA. She works on issues of gender and human rights, most recently as a co-founder of Kemban Kolektif, a feminist consultancy collective supporting CSOs in Southeast Asia and globally. She has previously served in international advocacy, communications, and programme roles with Musawah, the transnational solidarity network Women Living Under Muslim Laws (WLUML), the Women in Islam journal, the United States Senate, and other non-profit and academic organisations in Malaysia, USA and UK. Alex has an MSc in Gender, Development and Globalisation from the London School of Economics.