Edina Hajnal

WELL-BEING Foundation; activist of Hungarian Rebel Moms

I’m a wayfinder. Whatever I have been working on, I’ve been looking for answers to questions, regardless of the frame in which they were formulated. My question was always how to get to know people better, their situation and their story, in order to achieve a qualitative improvement in their lives. I look for these answers as a researcher in the field of cognitive psychology, as a volunteer helping refugees, as an activist supporting women and mothers and building communities.

As a committed feminist, I deeply believe in equality, justice and equity. I think that everyone should possess tools to maximize their own potential. I deeply believe in the energy of women, our strength, our knowledge, our commitment, and our ability to heal.

In a patriarchal society, men have privileges that inherently exclude the possibilities and values which would otherwise guarantee that everyone could achieve their goals by supporting one another in an equitable society. One of my missions is for as many men and women as possible to understand this and to start working towards it in micro-communities to achieve the transformation in macro-society as well. My goal is to make possible a world and a country for my daughters where there is no question that women’s rights and interests are as important as men’s, and that this is equally beneficial to everyone. This is why I work every day as a colleague of the WELL-BEING Foundation and as an activist of Hungarian Rebel Moms.