Lucy van de Wiel studied feminism, film and art at postgraduate level at the University of Amsterdam, University of California, Berkeley and the University of London and has received several scholarships for excellence, including a Fulbright grant. She worked as a theatre critic and has organised large-scale conferences and events for Amsterdam University College and the International Association of Universities, UNESCO in Paris. Her most recent curatorial project is the sold-out Sisterhood is Powerful: Feminist Film Exhibition, which includes the work of Barbara Hammer, Margarethe von Trotta and Joan Braderman among others. Currently Lucy van de Wiel conducts PhD research for the University of Amsterdam into the public reception of new reproductive technologies and the gender politics of ageing.