Stella Assange was born in Johannesburg, South Africa and grew up in Botswana and Lesotho before moving to Sweden, Spain, and then the UK for her tertiary education. She holds a degrees in law and politics at SOAS University of London, a Master of Science in refugee law at Oxford, and a Masters in Diplomacy and Public International Law from the School of Diplomacy in Madrid. She joined Julian Assange’s international legal team in London in 2011, before he received political asylum in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. Since 2020 she has been campaigning to free him from UK prison where he is under indefinite, administrative detention since 2019, and for the case against him to be dropped in the United States, where he faces 175 years for his WikiLeaks publications revealing war crimes and torture. Stella and Julian married in March 2022 in Belmarsh high-security prison in south-east London. They have two children together (born 2017 and 2019).’