Faye Macheke

Co-Executive Director

Faye is a passionate Pan-African feminist, active in movements for women's rights, racial justice, migrant and labor rights, and environmental justice. Her activism builds on the legacy of the struggle against apartheid in South Africa and the aftermath of the apartheid era in Zimbabwe.

In 2019, Faye joined AWID as the Director of Finance, Operations and Development, and strived to ensure that AWID upholds the feminist principles and values in all of its operations. She brings over 20 years of experience in feminist leadership, strategy, and all aspects of finance and organisational development.

Faye is a committed Board Member of UAF-Africa and other women's rights organizations. She previously held a Head of Finance and Operations roles at Paediatric Adolescent Treatment for Africa and JASS - Just Associates Inc. in Southern Africa. She also held Directorship roles for International Computer Driving Licence (ICDL) in Central and Southern Africa. She holds a Bcompt in Accounting Science from University of South Africa and is a member of the Southern African Institute for Business Accountants.

Stephanie Bracken

Operation Manager

Stephanie Bracken is a feminist from Canada who holds a Master of Human Rights from the University of Sydney and a BA in Women's Studies, History, and Philosophy from McGill University.  In the past she has worked with Gender at Work, the African Women's Millennium Initiative, and the Women's Global Network for Reproductive Rights, and is constantly thinking about how social (in)justice impacts our lives in a million huge and tiny ways.

Ritu S.

IT Manager

Ritu has worked as an IT professional in non-profit for over twenty years and loves her work to help non-profit organisations achieve their goals efficiently by using technology. Prior to working with AWID, she supported technological work in health promotion and environment sectors.

Having completed Masters in Technology from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi; she has handled a unique blend of projects in implementing IT infrastructure which includes web and software development, server and databases administration, technology evaluation and capacity building. 

Karen B.

Financial Analyst

Karen has built a career supporting the accounting and project work of financial service and not-for -profit organizations both in Canada and in her home country of Jamaica. Her drive to contribute to organizations that support a meaningful cause have led Karen to roles at the Jamaica Teachers’ Association Co-operative Credit Union as Finance Manager, the YWCA Toronto as Business Administrator for the REACH and LINC programs, YWCA Canada as Finance Coordinator/Manager and most recently to Peace Ranch (now part of Supportive Housing in the Province) as Bookkeeper/Consultant closing their books in preparation for merger.

She holds degrees in Business Administration from the University of the West Indies and Florida International University and recently completed a postgraduate certificate in Project management from Humber College, Canada. She continues to pursue the Certified Professional Accountant designation at the professional level. Her experience working with nonprofits in Canada spans over ten years.

Isabel Marler

Advancing Universal Rights and Justice Lead

Isabel is a feminist from the United Kingdom. She holds a Master’s degree in Gender Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Before AWID, Isabel worked with Women Living Under Muslim Laws (WLUML), which was the start of a journey towards her current specialism in feminist responses to fascisms and fundamentalisms.  In 2019 she was appointed to the WLUML Council. 

She is passionate about knowledge-building, communications, and the use of creative expression to disrupt systems of oppression.

Tenzin Dolker

Resourcing Feminist Movements Lead

Tenzin Dolker works at AWID as the Resourcing Feminist Movement Coordinator. Tenzin is currently based in Pristina, Kosovo, where she has previously consulted as a Program Support/Development Officer at the UN Agency for Migration. She assisted in the designing, monitoring and implementation of projects on returns and reintegration, migration management, social inclusion, and preventing violent extremism.

Tenzin also worked as a human rights and governance analyst at the Ford Foundation based in New York, where she helped manage a $54M grant-making program for the internationalization of the human rights movement. Tenzin graduated with a master’s degree in East Asian History at Columbia University in New York; and a bachelor’s degree in International Relations and Affairs, and minors in Political Science, and Sociology and Anthropology from Lake Forest College. Tenzin also worked at Machik, a grassroots NGO supporting social innovation and quality education for girls, and rural and nomadic children in Tibet.

Kamee Abrahamian

Communications Manager

Kamee arrives in the world today as a queer and feminist diasporic-Armenian mother, interdisciplinary creative, scholar, producer, and facilitator. They hold a BFA/BA in film and political science (Concordia University), an MA in art therapy (European Graduate Institute), and soon to be PhD in community, liberation, indigenous and eco psychologies (Pacifica Graduate Institute).

Kamee's work is steeped in relational, generative, visionary and liberatory practices oriented towards ancestral reclamation, diasporic futurism, and radical imaginaries. They have published, organized, and presented their work internationally through Saboteur Productions and Kalik Arts, and continues to do so both independently and inside collaborative frameworks.

Anissa Daboussi

Manager, Advancing Universal Rights and Justice

Anissa is a French-Tunisian feminist. She holds a Bachelor Degree in Translation and Interpretation and a Master’s Degree of Political Sciences from Sciences Po Lille. She started her professional life in Cairo in January 2011 and has for the past ten years worked on and lived in different countries of the South West Asia and North Africa region. She previously worked for international NGOs and intergovernmental organisations such as IDEA, Unicef and more recently FIDH, where she worked as a human rights researcher and advocate from 2017 until 2021. Anissa is passionate about women struggles, anti-racist movements and decolonial studies.

Marta Musić

Marta Musić是前南斯拉夫的去殖民主義倡導者、女權主義者、運動家和研究人員，目前居住在巴塞羅那。她的工作主要包括建立活躍的團結網絡和空間，以便在地方、區域和全球層面的不同運動、領土和替代方案之間進行交流、相互學習和合作。她是“全球替代品掛毯”（Global Tapestry of Alternatives）的共同創始人之一，是ATTAC國際委員會的成員，並參與組織了世界轉型經濟的社會論壇。在這些空間中的集體反思和經驗的啟發下，她開始攻讀博士學位，研究方向為“從去殖民化女權主義視角來研究替代品的融合過程”。

Sanyu Awori

Building Feminist Economies Manager

Sanyu is a Pan-African feminist activist, strategist and writer based in Nairobi, Kenya. She has spent the last decade supporting labour, feminist and human rights movements advocating for corporate accountability and gender justice. She has worked with the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre, IWRAW Asia Pacific and the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative. Sanyu has also researched for the Human Rights Law Centre in Nottingham and done community work with refugee groups in the UK. She has a Master of Laws in Human Rights Law and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Nottingham.

Lola Silva

ICM Coordinator

Lola is a communication, international and alternative media researcher. She is a founding member of the International Feminist Art Festival – Chouftouhonna and a board member of Kohl: a Journal for Body and Gender Research. She directed various audiovisual projects, in addition to scientific research aimed at deconstructing discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation. Through her work, she constantly questions the roles and norms imposed on women by different patriarchal societies. And she spent the last three years elaborating communication strategies and analyzing the political participation and media representation of transgender womxn in Brazil.

Michelle D’Cruz

Membership and Constituency Engagement Coordinator

Michelle is a digital advocacy and communications strategist who focuses on feminist approaches to social change. She is based out of Singapore. She previously worked on a worldwide campaign to end violence against women and girls, where she specialised in creative campaigning to shift social norms, engaging new audiences and co-creating projects with young feminists and creatives. Michelle has also worked in digital rights, human rights research and advocacy and civil society coalition building across Southeast Asia. She has an LLB from National University of Singapore, enjoys following her feet down random city streets and likes coffee a little too much.

Patience Chabururuka

Human Resources Coordinator

Patience is a human resources professional with nearly a decade of experience in human resources (HR) management in the not-for-profit sector. She lives and works in Zimbabwe. Patience has recently been with an INGO working as the Global HR Officer for Africa and in the same organization she also worked as Country Human resources and Safeguarding Focal Point for the Zimbabwe country office. Prior to that she worked in HR and Operations at another INGO in various capacities. She also has HR Consultancy experience which she gained while she was still studying for her BSc Honors degree in Human Resource Management. She regards herself as a people person and she takes wellbeing and safeguarding as her core personal values and in her professional work as well. As someone who loves sports, you can also find Patience at the basketball court, the tennis court or on the soccer field.

Joanne Kobuthi-Kuria

Manager, Membership and Constituency Engagement

Joanne is an African feminist who is passionate about dismantling gender inequalities on the African continent. She has an LLB from Moi University, a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Nairobi and is currently pursuing a Masters of Public Policy Administration at Strathmore University. Joanne is the founder of Double X Agenda-an online platform and a conversation starter on all matters women. In 2018, she led a campaign dubbed #MyBlackIsBeautiful which shed light on colourism on the African continent. Prior to joining AWID, Joanne led the Communications and Membership pillar at Amnesty International Kenya. She is a regular print columnist and TV commentator on gender issues. Through the project #Better4Kenya, Joanne works with a diverse collective of high profile Kenyan influencers with multiple NGOs around the notion that gender equality is not just a women's issue-it is better for everyone. She serves on the board of Freely in hope-an NGO based in Kenya and Zambia that seeks to equip survivors and advocates to lead in ending sexual violence. She is a book junkie with a penchant for fiction.

Maria Olivo

Digital Communications Coordinator

Maria is a graphic designer and visual communicator. For the last few years, Maria has been working with NGOs, and Human Rights organizations in the Dominican Republic - including Profamilia and OXFAM; Maria has a Master of Science in Communication and media Technologies, and a Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design.