Maryangel Garcia-Ramos
Executive Director
Maryangel is the Executive Director at Women Enabled International. Maryangel has worked for the past 15 years as a human rights advocate, leader, with a core focus on diversity, inclusion, gender,...
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Catherine Hyde Townsend
Board President
With over twenty years of experience, Catherine Hyde Townsend is a recognized thought leader on disability inclusion and rights with deep knowledge of the connections between disability and gender....
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Jolly Acen
Vice President
Jolly Acen is a Programme Specialist and Head of Sub Office with UN Women Uganda, before joining UN Women, Jolly served as Executive Secretary of National Union of Women with Disabilities of Uganda...
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Carissa Janis
Treasurer
Carissa Janis has spent her 30-year career working for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) as a Grants Program Manager and Policy Advisor. Carissa is a national leader in the...
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Jaime M. Gher
Secretary
Jaime M. Gher is a human rights lawyer specializing in issues of gender, sexuality, and health. Jaime is working as an Independent Consultant and a Fellow in the International Reproductive and Sexu...
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Niluka Gunawardena
Board Member
Niluka Gunawardena is an educator, researcher, and activist based in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Her understanding of disability is informed by her experience of multiple disabilities and intersectionality...
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Pratima Gurung
Board Member
Ms. Pratima Gurung is an academic activist from Nepal. She has been remarkable in bridging multiple marginalized identities and initiating cross-movement collaboration with intersectional lenses am...
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Tariro Tandi
Board Member
Tariro Tandi is a human rights lawyer by profession currently working with Urgent Action Fund Africa as the Head of Partnerships & Development. She is a member of the Women Enabled International Bo...
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Stephanie Ortoleva
Founder and Board Member Emeritus
Founder’s Herstory Stephanie Ortoleva is an accomplished human rights lawyer and prominent feminist leader, scholar and activist, and herself a woman with a disability, who established Women ...
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