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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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Suzannah Phillips

Strategy Director

Suzannah Phillips is the Director of Strategy at Women Enabled International. In this capacity, Suzannah works in close collaboration with WEI’s Executive Director for the development and implement...

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Amanda McRae

Advocacy & Accountability Director

Amanda is a disabled feminist human rights advocate based in New York City. She joined WEI in 2016, leading the organization’s advocacy work at the United Nations and beyond. Since graduating...

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Anastasia Holoboff

Capacity & Movement Strengthening Director

Anastasia Holoboff is the Director of Capacity and Movement Strengthening at Women Enabled International (WEI). Anastasia leads the execution of WEI’s strategic priorities aimed at ensuring t...

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Si Kailian

Finance Director

Si Kailian joined Women Enabled International (WEI) in 2014 and brings over two decades of expertise as a business manager to her role as Director of Finance. She is responsible for overseeing WEI&...

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Jenny Lindstrom

Development Director

Jenny has dedicated her career to helping nonprofit education, advocacy, and human service organizations raise the funds they need to advance their missions. As an independent consultant since 2006...

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Marcela Reyes Ayala

Communication Director

Marcela (Marce) Reyes is Director of Communications at Women Enabled International. In this capacity, she leads the planning and delivery of strategic communications and public relations initiative...

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Ishani Cordeiro

Advocacy & Accountability Manager

Ishani is the Manager, Advocacy & Accountability at Women Enabled. She is a gender rights activist and human rights lawyer from India. Ishani comes with more than a decade of experience in the ...

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Sofía Minieri

Capacity Strengthening Manager

Sofía Minieri is the Capacity Strengthening Manager at Women Enabled. Sofía leads the design, development, and implementation of WEI’s innovative and collaborative strategies to strengthen the capa...

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Janie Mejias

Movement Strengthening Manager

Janie is Women Enabled International’s Manager of Movement Strengthening. In this capacity, she is actively involved in the design and implementation of programmatic work to advance Capacity and Mo...

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Alana Carvalho

Senior Program Officer, Advocacy and Accountability

Alana’s work focuses on advocacy with U.N. human rights treaty bodies and agencies, research on the rights at the intersection of disability and gender, and movement building. Prior to joinin...

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Jane Buchanan

Senior Program Officer (Maternity Leave Cover)

Jane Buchanan is an independent human rights consultant with over 15 years of experience in research, advocacy, and training. She is currently serving as Senior Legal Advisor (Parental Leave Cover)...

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Virginia Ossana

Senior Program Officer, Capacity & Movement Strengthening

As the Senior Program Officer for Capacity and Movement Strengthening, Virginia collaborates in the design and implementation of movement and capacity strengthening strategies to advance rights at ...

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Mikayla Kessler

People & Culture Officer

Mikayla (she/her) joined Women Enabled International (WEI) in 2021 and brings a decade of diverse experience in healthcare and nonprofit governance to her role as People and Culture Officer. Previo...

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Satya Tara Nelms

Development Officer

Satya Tara Nelms is the Development Officer at Women Enabled International. Satya has a diverse skill set and a passion for advancing women’s rights and amplifying underrepresented voices. She come...

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Gloria Bennett

Operations Officer

Gloria Bennett (she/her) is the Operations Officer at Women Enabled. With nearly 15 years of experience in international program strategy and operations, she coordinates the daily administration of...

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Anita García Ortiz

Executive Office Associate

Born and raised in Guatemala. Her journey began with co-founding MaRES Association, where she implemented projects aimed at preventing child labor and migration, organized art and creativity worksh...

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Amanda Spriggs Reid

Equal Justice Works Fellow

Amanda Spriggs Reid (she/her) is currently an Equal Justice Works (EJW) Fellow with Women Enabled International. Amanda’s EJW project at WEI advocates for abortion access for disabled people throug...

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