Mozaīka (Latvia)

Linda is one of the founders and present chairperson of the LGBT and their friends’ organisation „ Mozaika” in Latvia. She has been the main responsible organiser of the Friendship days and Riga pride 2006 and 2007.

Linda was born in Stockholm, in a family of Latvian refugees in Sweden, where she early on became active in various youth organisations. She served as board member and editor for the European Latvian Youth Association.

Linda has graduated the School of Journalism of the University of Stockholm (1989). Her first employment was with the daily Svenska Dagbladet. Later she worked as a journalist at Radio Sweden, which launched a Latvian news broadcast in 1988.

In the 1990s Linda graduated the Law Faculty, University of Stockholm with an LLM in European Union law, and soon after she moved permanently to Riga. In Riga she first worked with Latvia’s pre-accession programmes, harmonising Latvian legislation with EU standards. Later she was engaged to set up the Riga Graduate School of Law, a Swedish-Latvian owned, private University for Baltic students. In 1999, Linda registered her partnership with Yvonne, who is a Danish artist.

Since 2005 Linda works as a project director at a strategic communications’ firm in Riga – serving corporate clients and organisations in their reputational, crisis, media and other needs. Working with LGBT issues has become her full time on-the-side job, a task, which she sees as one of the greatest and most interesting challenges in her life so far.