Our team
JEMMA HOLLONDS
Jemma has worked as a manager, lawyer, and consultant in the refugee, migration and human rights sectors for over 10 years, including with local and international NGOs, not-for-profit and community organisations, social enterprises and government agencies. Jemma enjoys using participatory approaches in design, strategy and evaluation to help organisations understand their impact and increase their effectiveness. Jemma has experience in developing monitoring, evaluation and learning systems, impact measurement frameworks, evaluation using mixed-methods approaches, developmental evaluation, and engagement with vulnerable persons. Jemma was formerly a senior managing lawyer at a refugee legal service in Australia, where she developed and managed a wide range of access to justice programs including legal services, legal education, and advocacy. She has also worked on prevention of and responses to human trafficking and exploitation in Australia and the Asia Pacific region.
Jemma is a member of the Australian Evaluation Society. She holds a Master of Business Administration (Social Impact), a Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Laws and a Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice and has been awarded for her studies in impact measurement.
Jemma speaks English (native), French (intermediate) and Tetun (basic).
HAFSAR TAMEESUDDIN
Hafsar is a former Rohingya refugee from Myanmar, the chair of Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network[APRRN], a Steering Committee Member of Asia Pacific Network of Refugees [APNOR], a member of Global Refugee-Led Network[GRN], New Zealand Country Coordinator of Free Rohingya Coalition[ FRC], an Advisory member of UNHCR Advisory Group, board of director at Forces of Renewal Southeast Asia [https://forsea.co/], interim working group member of Global Movement of Statelessness. She works as a community development navigator and social worker at Change Makers Resettlement Forum.
Hafsar has been involved in different advocacy and activism spaces on statelessness, refugee rights, asylum seekers, detention of migrants and refugees, and prevention and response to sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) for over a decade. She had worked with refugee communities on the prevention and response to SGBV [Sexual Gender-Based Violence] and child marriage in Malaysia for 8 years. She has extensive knowledge of the range of SGBV issues faced by refugee women in Malaysia as well as of their experiences prior to arrival and is a passionate advocate for improved prevention and response measures to SGBV.
Since her resettlement to New Zealand in early 2019, she had already accepted numerous invitations to present at national and international conferences on issues of gender, refugees and Statelessness. She was selected to represent the Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network, Women, Gender and Diversity working group at the UNHCR/NGO Consultations and the Gender Audit team for the Global Refugee Forum. She is committed to advocate on all issues facing refugee women and girls in all their diversities including SGBV, Statelessness and the particular risks faced by the LGBTIQ refugee communities.
Hafsar speaks Rohingya, Burmese and Rakhine fluently as well as some Malay.
NUCH LEERASANTANA
Nuchnalin (Nuchii) is a youth engagement expert and human rights activist from Thailand who has several years of experience working among people on the move communities with a specific focus on women’s empowerment.
She has worked for several international organizations serving as their national partner in research and outreach. She began her career as an anti-human trafficking protection officer for World Vision Foundation of Thailand overseeing six regions in Thailand. She was the Community Outreach Officer for a refugee rights organization called Asylum Access Thailand during which she founded a social enterprise for creating sustainable livelihood for women urban refugees called CHAMALiiN. She was also an Activism and Human Rights Educator at Amnesty International Thailand.
Nuch has been working as an independent facilitator and consultant for several organizations focusing on forced migration and human rights. She published the ‘National Screening Mechanism Assessment Report’ for the Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network on the new Thai regulation targeting urban refugees and developed a facilitation tool for the project ‘Stop Violence Now’ focusing on the Myanmari community for the organization Ban Dek Foundation. She is passionate about social equity and sustainable change and has participated in democracy protests in Bangkok.
Nuch has a Bachelor of Social Administration. She is currently pursuing her Master’s in Development and Governance at the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany.
Nuchii speaks Thai (native), English (advanced) and German (intermediate)
Francis Jimoh
Francis is a community organiser and advocates for refugee rights with over five years of experience in directly working with communities. Franic’s primary work is on building communities through collaboration, partnership, and advocacy, with a particular emphasis on the LGBTIQA+ refugee space.
Francis has worked in supporting torture and trauma recovery for displaced LGBTIQA+ refugees and continues to be actively involved in advocating for the rehabilitation of trauma survivors through a co-authorship and design of refugee support programs. Francis has worked to navigate the intersectionality of under-represented communities and advocates for their representation and visibility.
Francis speaks 6 languages including Yoruba, English, Krio, Italian, Tagalog and Hausa. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy and Ethics, as well as a Bachelor of Theology and Area Studies.
HAFSA AFAILAL
Hafsa is a Ph.D.-qualified humanitarian and development professional with an extensive background in training, research, evaluation, innovation, and program management across various United Nations agencies and numerous NGOs/CSOs in the MENA region and Europe.
She has previously worked offering technical advisory services, facilitating training sessions, and crafting strategic and MEAL plans.
Hafsa speaks Arabic, French, Spanish, and English, and has an intermediate proficiency in Turkish.
CHUS ÁLVAREZ
Chus is an enthusiastic intersectional feminist, an avid reader and a sea lover. She has lived and worked in different countries in Asia, Europe and South America developing a strong sense of global justice and participatory approaches. She has worked over 15 years for non-profit organizations, mainly in the migrants’ rights sector and has a strong background in project coordination, multi-stakeholder engagement and participatory facilitation. Passionate about designing and facilitating spaces for collective knowledge building and engagement. She acknowledges and nurtures in her work the learnings from many colleagues and compañeras.
She holds a degree in Social Work and has further education in International Development and Gender Equity, along with specific training for feminist and participatory facilitation and non-formal education.
Chus speaks Spanish, English and Portuguese. She was once able to speak German fluently, now she may be up for an informal conversation. She tried Thai too and although she did not go very far, she is able to order some delicious dishes.
STEPHANIE BUTTON
Stephanie has worked as a policy manager, analyst, strategist, and evaluation consultant across the social policy spectrum in the public and non-profit sector for over 10 years. She has expertise in cost-benefit analysis, impact assessment, and other quantitative evaluation methods, as well as qualitative evaluation approaches.
Stephanie is a member of the Australasian Evaluation Society. She holds a Master of Evaluation and a Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Laws.
RUTH NGIGI
Ruth Ngigi is a domestic worker advocate, campaigning for decent work conditions for all domestic workers. Ruth has represented domestic workers in national, regional and global forums in the Middle East, and Europe, including as a regional IDWF representative for the Middle East and at the UN. Ruth convenes an online forum of domestic worker advocates from MENA and Asia supporting domestic workers to come together in solidarity and to share learning. She is also supporting returned migrant domestic workers from MENA in Kenya, where she currently resides.
KATRINA MUNIR-ASEN
Katrina has worked extensively in project management and research in Malaysia, Australia, the United Kingdom and Germany. She has worked with both UN agencies as well as with community-based organizations and development think tanks. She has considerable experience in migration research, devising policy recommendations for government and development practitioners, and generating comprehensive situational analyses to inform future research methodologies and strategies. She is also well-versed in people and change management having lead teams through programmatic adjustments including reallocation of resources according to strategic priorities. Currently Katrina working as a consultant with UNHCR to develop context-specific training for staff and volunteers on protection in mixed movement situations.
Katrina has an MSc in Human Rights and an LLM in Immigration Law.
Katrina speaks English (native), German (intermediate) and Bahasa Melayu (intermediate).