Silvia Valle

Silvia Valle (Barcelona 1983) holds a degree in Gender Equality Promotion, concluded with an intervention project aimed at improving the detection of human trafficking for sexual exploitation, assessed with Honors, and subsequently presented at the II International Congress on Science, Feminism, and Masculinities in Valencia.

Since 2016, she has been part of the Liquen Data Lab team, where she coordinated the panel "Barcelona, Body and Public Space" within the framework of the exhibition "60dB / 16kHz. Barcelona. Can you feel the violence?" premiered at the Santa Mònica Art Museum, Barcelona, in October 2016 as a collective documentary exhibition reflecting on certain forms of implicit violence occurring in urban environments.

In 2017, she participated as a research assistant in the study "Analysis of the participation of women in mixed institutional and social spaces in the city of Barcelona" commissioned by the Barcelona City Council as part of the actions addressing the urgencies identified by the Gender Justice Plan. In 2018, she collaborated as a facilitator in the Wiki-data-thon "Open City" within the framework of the Barcelona Philosophy Bienniale.

In 2019, she coordinated the educational area of the Citizen Science, Public Policy, and Design Justice Hackathon within the framework of the Science Bienniale, where she also participated in the round table: Citizen Laboratories and Knowledge Creation. That same year, she participated as an advisor in the development of the Participation and Cultural Habits Survey carried out by the Center for Cultural Studies and Resources of the Barcelona Provincial Council and served as the Project Manager for the study "Prioritization for the use of open data in relation to gender inequality for the Government of Catalonia Administration," commissioned by the Government of Catalonia. In the same context she also coordinated the panel "Body, vulnerability, and care in the cities of the future" within the framework of Smart City Week 2019 in Barcelona, as well as the artistic area in the I International Congress for the Eradication of sexist Violence and the Intervention Project in Musical Creation Spaces for Sensitization for the Eradication of Sexist Violence, both organized by the Catalan Institute of Women.

In 2017, she co-founded MYM: Women and Music collective, creating a digital platform dedicated to promoting and disseminating female artists with the intention of facilitating the discovery of new talent and combating the minimal presence of women in the music industry. From MYM: Women and Music, she organized the first women led Jam Session in the city of Barcelona and publishes the study "Female presence on the stages of the main music festivals in Spanish territory" annually, leading to her participation in various media outlets. Finally, she became a regular contributor to La Directa, a cooperative media outlet for social transformation.

In September 2019, she moved to Valencia and began collaborating with the Dessex Association, where she works as an Advisor in Youth Infosex, a service providing information and advice on sexuality for young people at the Municipal Youth Centers of Russafa and Ayora.

Since January 2020, she has been working as an equality technician designing and implementing projects and training in the field of Equality and Gender Violence, as well as in the preparation of technical works: Citizenship Plans, HR Equality Plans, Salary Registers, Pay Audits, Conciliation Plans, Diversity Plans, Protocols for the prevention, detection, and action in cases of sexual harassment and harassment on the grounds of sex, Protocols for the prevention, detection, and action in cases of harassment based on gender identity, gender expression, or sexual orientation, Digital disconnection protocols, etc.

She has recently completed a Postgraduate Degree in Transnational Organized Crime and Security at UNED and is currently pursuing a Bachelor's Degree in Anthropology and Human Evolution at UOC.