Her approach is systemic and she always searches for the institutional elements of inclusion and exclusion. Among others she is also an executive coach, a team coach, freelance consultant, chairperson and keynote speaker in the areas of transcultural and inclusive leadership; diversity management; equal treatment and anti-discrimination on the grounds of gender, race, LGBTI+, handicap and chronic illness from an intersectional approach. She works among others with  NGO's, art institutes, grass root organisations, (local) governments and companies. 

At the moment she is the Vice-Chair of the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) and member of ECRI in respect of the Netherlands. She was an Equal Treatment Commissioner and a Human Rights Commissioner (2005-2017)  at the Netherlands Institute for Human Rights and it’s predecessor the Dutch Equal Treatment Commission.