Keio Yoshida is an international human rights lawyer and barrister. In February 2025, they were named by Attitude magazine as one of the 101 LGBTQ+ trailblazers ranking as top 10 in the area of law and business. Yoshida is the co-author of Silenced Women (Octopus, 2024) and co-editor of Feminist Conversations on Peace (Bristol University Press, 2022)—Pride and Prejudices is Yoshida’s first book to be published in North America. Yoshida sits on the international advisory board of the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice, Queen’s University Belfast, and previously sat on the advisory board of the Center for Women, Peace and Security at the London School of Economics and Political Science.