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WCS LGBTQ+ Awards 2025 | Emerging Queer Leaders.

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This year's WCS | Awards are celebrating 100+ Queer Leaders around the world - LGBTQ+ change-makers who are using their platforms, profile and roles to drive change, making the world a more inclusive place for all LGBTQ+ people. The Emerging Queer Leader Award spotlights young leaders who are under 30yrs old impacting their communities, assessing leadership qualities, community impact, volunteering and giving back, and generally their potential for future influence.


Emerging Queer Leader | Our 2025 Awardees:


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Coda Nicolaeff.

(she/her)

Emerging Queer Leader (Under 30)


Coda Nicolaeff is a dynamic culture strategist and creative leader. She creates inclusive spaces across corporate and creative environments, delivering transformational initiatives for FTSE 100 and Fortune 500 companies. Coda is also the co-founder of TRANS VOICES, the UK’s first professional music collective for marginalised genders. Under her leadership, the collective has launched a Guardian-backed documentary, led an award-winning digital campaign with Olly Alexander, premiered an immersive sound installation at the Barbican Centre, and curated a SXSW London music showcase. Coda’s practice blends strategy and storytelling, lived experience and systems thinking — reimagining leadership and visibility through a distinctly queer lens.




Fatal Flash.

(she/he)

Emerging Queer Leader (Under 30)


Fatal Flash is a queer artist, activist, and human rights defender. As a refugee and founder of LGBT life e.V., she creates safe spaces for LGBTQI+ refugees in Germany, combining community care with fierce visibility. Her work bridges art and advocacy: through drag, music, and performance, she reclaims power and challenge systems of oppression. Since fleeing persecution in 2019, she has transformed trauma into political action. Fatal Flash campaign for intersectional justice, fight for inclusive asylum policies, and speak out against discrimination and state violence. Her leadership is rooted in lived experience and radical empathy — leading not from above, but from within the community. She believes being a queer leader means defending the rights of the most marginalised, refusing silence, and creating a future where queerness is not only protected, but celebrated.




Lias Mauersberger.

(they/them)

Emerging Queer Leader (Under 30)


Lias is a white, non-binary, queer, and neurodivergent healing facilitator. They root their therapeutic practice in anti-colonial, anti-capitalist, and radical mental health perspectives, encouraging people to depathologize their struggles while affirming the systemic and structural aspects of them. Their focus areas include trauma, relationships & attachment, consensual non-monogamy, queerness, and neurodivergence. Their heart is drawn to nature and all kinds of creatures, and they love understanding, exploring, and practising ways in which people can heal through therapy, resistance, and community.



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