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
Catherine is a recognized thought leader on disability inclusion and rights. She serves as a consultant and trusted advisor to private donors, NGOs, and UN agencies with a focus on gender, and inte...
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Tariro Tandi
Vice President
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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Jaime M. Gher
Secretary
Jaime M. Gher is a human rights lawyer specializing in issues of gender, sexuality, disability, and health. She has worked with international, national, and grassroots organizations and in the priv...
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Regina Blye
Treasurer
Regina Blye is the Chief Program and Policy Officer at the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation, where she oversees the operations of the National Paralysis Resource Center. In this role, she le...
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Fayel Achieng Odeny
Board Member
Fayel Achieng Odeny is a passionate human rights advocate and a woman with a psychosocial disability. She is a board member at Women Enabled International and the Access to Justice Hub, and she ser...
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Dwi Ariyani
Board Member
Dwi is a disability rights activist and movement builder with over twenty years experience in disability rights and inclusion. She has worked with grassroots, national, regional and international o...
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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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Susie Rodgers
Board Member
Susannah (Susie) Rodgers is a global technical adviser on disability inclusion with extensive experience advising public and private sector organisations around the world. She has worked on interna...
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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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