Ariadna Beneventi

Ariadna Beneventi is a 20 year old gender justice activist and a first-year Sociology student at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. At 17, she founded Intransigentes, a youth-led, NGO dedicated to promoting a life free from gender-based violence through peer education, youth participation, and civic participation.

Ariadna is alumna of the 2024–2025 She’s the First Girl Activist Fellowship, where she developed a menstrual education campaign and co-created the magazine Beyond Bleeding. She is also a Girl Rising Ambassador, advocating for girls’ right to education through digital campaigns and opinion writing. In 2024, she was selected to advise the development of Girl Rising’s global campaign What Girls Want, presented at the UN Summit of the Future.

In January 2025, Ariadna was part of Chile’s official delegation to the 69th UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW69) in New York, as well at the XVI regional women's conference, and also selected for the third edition of the Pacific Alliance Chile volunteer program.

Her academic interests focus on the intersection of gender, global health, and political power, emphasising on reproductive health, substance use during pregnancy, and punitive state responses, aiming to inform comprehensive and rights-based public policies.

You can follow Ariadna on Instagram and LinkedIn. You can find out more about Intransigentes here.