Sussan Tahmasebi is a women’s rights and civil society activist. Director of the MENA/Asia program at the International Civil Society Action Network, which she co-founded, Sussan works on women’s movement building and the promotion of women’s rights, in Islamic contexts and amid shrinking civil society space. She worked in Iran for ten years and co-founded the grassroots One Million Signatures Campaign to reform gender-biased laws. She's on Twitter @sussantweets.