Solmaz Khorsand is a journalist, currently working for the Swiss magazine Republic. Prior to that, she was an editor at Wiener Zeitung, der Zeit, der Standard.at and Datum. She received the Vienna Journalist Award for her work in 2018. Statement by the jury: “Solmaz Khorsand always has a clear stance: oriented towards human rights, feminist and for equal opportunities – regardless of whether between men and women or majority society and minorities.”