Jihad Van Puymbroeck is a communication strategist. As a freelance public speaker, trainer and consultant she is specialized in the topics racism, inclusion, online communication and media.

As a Muslim woman of Moroccan and Belgian descent, she has been active in anti-racist civil society for more than ten years. Van Puymbroeck is one of the civil parties in the lawsuit against Schild & Vrienden, a Flemish far-right youth movement that attacked her online. She won her case after a long agony.

She is Disruption Network Lab’s conference Beyond Control keynote speaker (April 2024), wherein she shares her story and exposes the depths of online racism