Gabriela Slováková is a notable person in the field of criminal justice in the Czech Republic. She serves as the Director of the Criminal Policy Department at the Ministry of Justice of the Czech Republic, where she holds a role in shaping and implementing policies related to the criminal justice system. Gabriela is also the CEO of the Yellow Ribbon Czech Republic, an organization dedicated to awarness of the reintegration of people with criminal past. Her work emphasizes awarness, rehabilitation, support for ex-offenders, and the promotion of policies that aim to reduce recidivism and more equitable legal system. In 2024, she managed to start bilateral cooperation with Norway, thanks to which the Yellow Ribbon Growing European Together hub is being created. The aim of this initiative is to spread awareness of the yellow ribbon project to other European countries.

Gert Jan Slump is a criminologist and innovator in the field of Criminal Justice and Restorative Justice. He is co-founder of the Restorative Justice Netherlands Foundation, which is also where the Netherlands Office of RESCALED is based and co-initiator of Youth Courts in the Netherlands. Gert Jan also focuses on democratisation processes and relation between professionalisation and meaningful action. 

Helene De Vos is the Executive Director of RESCALED, the European movement for Detention Houses. She’s immersed in the challenge of rethinking our detention systems in Europe, to make them better for individuals and society. But beneath her professional role, she’s still a researcher at heart. From 2013 to 2019, Helene worked as a prison researcher at the Leuven Institute of Criminology (KU Leuven, Belgium), where she dove deep into the relationship between prison practices, policies, and the society they reflect. Her doctoral research focused on the normalization principle in Norwegian and Belgian prisons, and she later brought her insights together in her book, Beyond Scandinavian Exceptionalism: Normalization, Imprisonment, and Society. That time shaped how she sees society and still inspires her today.

Tanja Jadnanansing is the chair of the Executive Board of the Amsterdam Zuidoost district council since 2018. Skilled in Politics, Coaching, Presenting, Education, and Youth Mentoring, and her law degree from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Tanja is committed to building a community where love and law go hand in hand.