Zrinka Bralo CEO of Migrants Organise

Zrinka Bralo is CEO of Migrants Organise - an award-winning, grassroots organising platform for dignity, justice, and welcome for all migrants and refugees. Migrants Organise combines advice and support for individuals affected by the hostile environment immigration policies with community organising, advocacy, research, and campaigning to help dismantle structural racism in immigration system and wider society. Under the banner of Solidarity Knows No Borders, Migrants Organise is leading the grassroots coalition building the Fair Immigration Movement for systemic change of the current hostile environment immigration policy as well as Patients Not Passports campaign for universal access to healthcare for all migrants which brought together Vaccine for All coalition of more than 370 organisations around the country. Zrinka is a refugee from Sarajevo, where she was a journalist during the siege in the 90s. She had to fight an adversarial immigration system for three years. After winning her right to stay, Zrinka continued to campaign and organise for migrant justice. She established the national network of anti-deportation campaigns, led the negotiations to end immigration detention of children, and negotiated the introduction of a community sponsorship visa scheme. She is a founder of the Women on the Move Awards that celebrates the achievements of migrant and refugee women and winner of the 2011 Voices of Courage Award by the Women’s Refugee Commission in New York. Zrinka holds a postgraduate degree in Media and Communications from LSE and was awarded an honorary doctorate HonDLitt by Exeter University in 2019.

Zrinka Bralo is CEO of Migrants Organise - an award-winning, grassroots organising platform for dignity, justice, and welcome for all migrants and refugees. Migrants Organise combines advice and support for individuals affected by the hostile environment immigration policies with community organising, advocacy, research, and campaigning to help dismantle structural racism in immigration system and wider society. Under the banner of Solidarity Knows No Borders, Migrants Organise is leading the grassroots coalition building the Fair Immigration Movement for systemic change of the current hostile environment immigration policy as well as Patients Not Passports campaign for universal access to healthcare for all migrants which brought together Vaccine for All coalition of more than 370 organisations around the country. Zrinka is a refugee from Sarajevo, where she was a journalist during the siege in the 90s. She had to fight an adversarial immigration system for three years. After winning her right to stay, Zrinka continued to campaign and organise for migrant justice. She established the national network of anti-deportation campaigns, led the negotiations to end immigration detention of children, and negotiated the introduction of a community sponsorship visa scheme. She is a founder of the Women on the Move Awards that celebrates the achievements of migrant and refugee women and winner of the 2011 Voices of Courage Award by the Women’s Refugee Commission in New York. Zrinka holds a postgraduate degree in Media and Communications from LSE and was awarded an honorary doctorate HonDLitt by Exeter University in 2019.