About Kathryn Travers & Margaret Shaw & Kassandra McCleery

Kathryn Travers is Executive Director of Women in Cities International (WICI) and works as a global consultant on issues of gender, safety and urban development and governance. She promotes an intersectional approach to broaden the understanding of women’s safety and to explore new related issues like accessibility, essential services, and adolescence. Kathryn has led the development of new and innovative tools for capturing data about women’s and girls’ safety experiences in urban environments and has led training workshops in several countries. She has extensive experience in working with diverse populations in the global North and South. Margaret Shaw is a sociologist and criminologist working as an independent consultant, and formerly Director of Analysis and Exchange at the International Centre for the Prevention of Crime (ICPC) in Montréal, Canada. She worked as a research and policy advisor in the Home Office, England, and in Canada, at Concordia University, and as a Research Consultant to the federal, provincial, and municipal governments on issues including women’s imprisonment, evaluation, restorative justice, and policing. For UN-Habitat’s Safer Cities Programme, she worked on issues of youth at risk, and youth participation and urban governance. Kassandra McCleery holds a Master's degree in Urban Planning from McGill University. With a bachelor in International Relations and Diplomacy from Ohio State University, she approaches the challenges of urban development and governance from a global perspective. She has worked with Women and Cities International (WICI) in Montréal, Canada, and carried out a consultation for UN-Habitat’s “Safer Cities” program. Kassandra is especially interested in the intersection of climate change and gender in urban areas. Currently Kassandra is pursuing her planning career in Paris, France.