I am a socio-legal feminist scholar working on equality and non-discrimination law, with particular attention to intersectional, multiple, and political discrimination in civil-law jurisdictions.

I am currently a Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow at the European University Institute, where I am developing a monograph on intersectional discrimination and equality law in the post-Yugoslav space. From September 2026, I will hold a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship at University College Dublin, leading POLARIS - a research project on the protection against political discrimination in Northern Ireland, Belgium, and North Macedonia. Two stand-alone articles building toward the book, on plural forms of discrimination and on a tripartite obligations framework for intersectional equality, are forthcoming.

I came to academia after fifteen years of legal and policy practice, and I have not left that practice behind. Since 2011, I have served as the European Commission's country expert for North Macedonia within the European Network of Legal Experts in Gender Equality and Non-Discrimination - first on non-discrimination, and from 2019 also on gender equality, and I currently coordinate the Network's expert work on gender equality across the enlargement countries. I have drafted legislative and institutional reforms in North Macedonia, including the National Action Plan on Roma Women, the Law on Gender Equality, and the gender-sensitive amendments to the Law on the Parliament. Increasingly, this work has a European and trans-European footprint, including a comparative legal note on gender equality legislation produced for the 57 OSCE participating states (ODIHR), the development of EU-wide tools on gender-sensitive parliaments (EIGE), a contribution to the Legal Opinion on the Equal Opportunities for Women and Men Act of the Republic of Slovenia (ODIHR), and coordination of the European Commission's expert work on gender equality across all EU enlargement countries and its transposition monitoring in eight EU Member States.

My research is rooted in extensive empirical and archival work across post-Yugoslav and post-socialist Europe. FOLIO, my most recent academic research project, traces the role of Yugoslav socialist ombudspersons in shaping contemporary human rights governance, and is supported by an Early Stage Researcher grant from the EUI.

I hold a PhD in Law from Queen's University Belfast, an LLM in International Human Rights Law (with distinction) from the University of Essex, an MA in Democracy and Human Rights from the universities of Sarajevo and Bologna, and an LLB from Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje. I teach EU internal market law, EU fundamental rights, gender equality, and EU family law at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, alongside professional training for parliamentarians, judges, equality body members, and national human rights institutions.

Across these roles, the work moves between academic research, legal practice, and public policy - because the questions do too.