Christina Haralanova is a feminist, a Free Software hacktivist and an IT trainer. Christina has been working for the past 10 years with the feminist movements around the world for the appropriation of information and communication technologies through principles of solidarity, software freedom and privacy of information. Within this role, she has given a number of training, research and presentations around the world. Christina has been a founding member and Managing Director of the Internet Rights Bulgaria foundation (from 2002 to 2008), a Board member (since 2002) and coordinator (from 2005 to 2007) of the Women's Information Technology Transfer (WITT), and is a Board member of Gender, Education Research and Technologies (GERT) since 2003. As a free software hacktivist, Christina has participated actively in the creation of the Free Software Association – Bulgaria (FSA-BG), and is a member of FACIL - pour l'appropriation collective de l'informatique libre (since 2006) and Koumbit (since 2006) in Montreal, Canada. Christina was the Project Leader of the Legal Case Management Software (LCM) (2004-2005), a LPI proctor (2003 – 2005), a SPIP-bg translator. At present, Christina is writing her master's thesis in Communication at the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM), on the topic: Women's Participation to Free and Open Source Software Development Projects. Debian GNU/Linux user since 2002.

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