Tuisina Ymania Brown
co-Secretary General
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The Executive Board is ILGA World’s main governing body.
Representatives are usually elected during the world conference (or regional conferences, depending on circumstances).
ILGA World’s current Executive Board is composed of 19 members:
co-Secretary General
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co-Secretary General
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Tuisina Ymania Brown (she/her) is a proud a trans fa’afafine woman of colour from Samoa living and working in Brisbane, Australia on the lands of the Yagara nation and its traditional owners. She is a survivor of child rape, spousal gender-based violence and abuse, racial profiling, and anti-trans violence and persecution throughout her life and has become a fierce advocate for the trans movement.
She is an accomplished public speaker, a former intellectual property attorney, and a working mum to two adopted sons, and has recently become a grandmother. She has over 10 years of volunteer experience in international NGOs, and currently heads ILGA World (co-Secretary General) with affiliations with Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice (current International Advisory Board member), Global Interfaith Network on Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Expression (former Co-Chair), Samoa Fa’afafine Association (former Technical Director), Copenhagen2021 (former International Advisory Board), and the International Trans Fund (former co-Chair).
She is currently the Strategic Adviser/Project Lead for Equality Australia / Sydney World Pride helping to deliver their vision of the largest ever human rights conference in the Asia-Pacific region as part of Sydney World Pride 2023.
organisation: Pacific Human Rights Initiative (Samoa)
co-Secretary General
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co-Secretary General
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Luz Elena Aranda is a bisexual artivist. She studied Dramatic Literature at UNAM and Ethnology at ENAH, in addition to a technical career in Production in Media and Communication at the Ansel Adams Photography School.
She is the General Director of Las Reinas Chulas Cabaret and Human Rights AC and Director of the International Cabaret Festival. She has worked in different organizations, including ProDesarrollo, Finanzas and Microempresa (where she developed the theatre component for the Methodology for the Incorporation of the Gender Approach in the Mexican Microfinance Institutions MEGIM), Faces and Voices FDS AC (where she created the campaign against poverty I look, I know, I act), and Oxfam Mexico, where she was a consultant for the project Building an integrated approach to inequality: indigenous peoples, rural populations and women victims of violence in Mexico.
She obtained the Leadership Scholarship from the MacArthur Foundation through the Mexican Society for Women’s Rights AC (SEMILLAS) and the recognition “Women investing in women” by the same institution. She is part of Generation 54 of the Global Women in Management program: Advancing Women’s Economic Opportunities sponsored by CEDPA and EXXON MOBIL.
Organisation: Teatro Cabaret Reinas Chulas AC (Mexico)
Chair – Bisexual Steering Committee
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Chair – Bisexual Steering Committee
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Ian Lawrence-Tourinho
Chair of the Bisexual Steering Committee
Elected at ILGA World Conference, Long Beach, May 2022
Ian Lawrence-Tourinho (he/him) is Director of The Bi Foundation and founder of the amBi network, a growing, international collaborative of socially-focused bi communities.
As an activist, he is particularly interested in the role positive, affirming support networks can serve as a health and human rights intervention for bi people. In 2013, Ian created bi.org which has grown to become the largest online resource about bisexuality in the world.
organisation: Bi Foundation (United States)
Chair – Trans Steering Committee
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Chair – Trans Steering Committee
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Tashnuva Anan
Chair of Trans Steering Committee
Elected at ILGA World Conference, Long Beach, May 2022
Tashnuva Anan (she/her) is a young transgender human rights activist and theatre worker from Bangladesh. She became the first transgender news anchor in Bangladesh, shattering the glass barrier of gender discrimination and paving the way for other transgender individuals to pursue other mainstream occupations. She is the only Bangladeshi to hold a position on the ILGA World board.
As a graduate of public health, Tashnuva has spent many years advocating for the SRHR of SOGIESC people in South Asia, with the advancement of SOGIESC people’s human rights constituting the core of her advocacy work. She has worked with numerous human rights and SOGIESC organisations for more than ten years. Tashnuva currently serves as the executive director of Inclusive Bangladesh, a trans-led youth LGBTIQ+ organisation with activities in Bangladesh and the United Kingdom.
Chair of Women’s Steering Committee
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Chair of Women’s Steering Committee
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Angelica Polmonari
Chair of Women’s Steering Committee
Elected at the ILGA World Conference, Long Beach, May 2022
Angelica Polmonari (she/her) is a jurist and a lesbian transfeminist and LGBTQIA+ rights activist at the local, national and international levels within the major Italian LGBTI+ non-for-profit organisation Arcigay.
Within Arcigay, Angelica has assumed several leadership roles and has been organising local, national and international conferences, workshops, focus groups and training sessions on transfeminism, LGBTQIA+ and all women’s rights, and SOGIESC issues.
Being a human rights expert, Angelica worked as the personal assistant of the former Italian Minister for Integration and MEP of African descent, Ms. Cécile Kashetu Kyenge, at the European Parliament, and has been collaborating as project manager and SDGs expert with an Italian national NGO named IBO Italia. Throughout the last decade, Angelica has been advocating for LBTQIA+ women’s agency and visibility in society and politics by fostering their full participation in public life and decision-making.
Organisation: Arcigay (Italy)
Chair of Youth Steering Committee
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Chair of Youth Steering Committee
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Martin Karadzhov
Chair of the Youth Steering Commitee
Elected at the ILGA World Conference, Wellington, March 2019
Martin has been involved in the field of SRHR, LGBTI rights and HIV prevention since he was 13 years old. He started as a peer educator in Bulgaria and later became a youth coordinator of a domestic violence charity, where he worked with young people from diverse backgrounds – Roma youth, youth with disabilities, carers and juvenile offenders. He has also been a member of International youth networks such as YouAct and YPEER. Since then, he has been actively involved with youth advocacy at the European and international level and has worked for several youth NGOs in different countries.
He currently works for METRO charity, where he leads an LGBTQI youth service and trains professionals on inclusion. He also works for Consortium, the national umbrella and membership organisation for the UK LGBT+ charitable and voluntary sector, where he supports over 110 LGBTI+ groups and organisation and leads on a mapping project in London.
Organisation: Metro Centre Ltd and LGBT Consortium (UK)
ph.: Ben Buckland for ILGA World
Trans Steering Committee representative – Africa
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Trans Steering Committee representative – Africa
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Barbra Wangare
Representative of the Trans Steering Committee for Africa
Barbra Wangar (she/her) is a queer African feminist social justice worker and activist from Kenya, East Africa.
She is the Executive Director of EATHAN – East Africa Trans Health & Advocacy Network; a network of intersex, trans* and gender non-conforming (ITGNC) individuals and organisations in East Africa. She has over 7 years of experience working on and with intersex, trans* and gender non-conforming individuals and organisations across the African continent and has been instrumental in the growth of the movement. Her passion towards improving the livelihoods of all ITGNC persons in the region is what drives her.
organisation: EATHAN (Kenya)
Pan Africa ILGA co-Chair
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Pan Africa ILGA co-Chair
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Star Rugori
Pan Africa ILGA co-Chair
Elected at the Pan Africa ILGA conference, online, August / October 2021
Star Rugori is the Executive Director of Mouvement pour les Libertés Individuelles (MOLI), the leading advocacy and peer-to-peer movement-building organization in Central and Francophone East Africa. He has a decade-long experience in bolstering nascent organizations’ capacities and initiating collaborative and community-led initiatives that uphold human rights and dignity using both regional and international human rights frameworks. He is a specialist in formulating adaptative strategies for organizations led by and supporting sexual and gender minorities and understands their objectives and needs.
Star has been serving the Egides – Alliance Internationale Francophone pour l’Égalité et les Diversités Board of Directors since July 2019, where he plays a leading part in increasing resources to Francophone LGBT movement internationally. He has a bachelor’s degree in Political Economy from the University of Burundi and served as a Human Rights Advocate Fellow at Columbia University in 2017.
organisation: Mouvement pour les Libertes Individuelles – MOLI (Burundi)
ILGA Asia co-Chair
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ILGA Asia co-Chair
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Chitsanupong Nithiwana (Best)
ILGA Asia co-Chair
elected at the ILGA Asia conference in Ho Chi Minh City, December 2022
Founder and executive director of Young Pride Club, Chitsanupong “Best” Nithiwana (she/her) is a human rights defender for the rights of LGBTIQ+ youth and gender equality in Thailand.
Absolutely dedicated to her career path, she started out as a public information assistant consultant at the UN headquarters. She supported the digital campaign of Youth Peace Security to gain the meaningful participation of women and youth in peace processes worldwide. In 2018, she became the first transgender participant in the US Exchange programme, YSEALI Academic Fellows.
An outspoken advocate for the LGBTIQ+ community, she now runs her own community in Chiang Mai, Thailand, Young Pride Club, which is a safe learning community for young people interested in gender equality and the LGBTIQ+ community. Established in 2018, the community provides on-the-ground activities and online content to develop leadership and participation in gender equality advocacy. Young Pride Club was also a main organizer of the Chiang Mai Pride 2019-2022 and the 2022 Youth Pride Thailand, the country’s first pride organized by LGBTIQ+ youth for LGBTIQ+ youth. In 2022, it reached over 40,000 followers and developed 50 young leaders across the country.
Recently, Best also became an APCOM Hero Award Honouree (Community Hero) under the theme “Unity & Diversity ” in recognition of her inspiring work.
organisation: Young Pride Club (Thailand)
ILGA Asia co-Chair
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ILGA Asia co-Chair
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Charbel Maydaa
ILGA Asia co-Chair
Appointed in October 2023
Dr. Charbel Maydaa (they/them) is a distinguished contributor to the field of sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, and sex characteristics (SOGIESC), focusing specifically on the West Asian context. As a West Asian representative for ILGA Asia, Dr. Maydaa emphasizes the necessity for comprehension and acceptance of heterogeneous identities. Their role as Founder and General Director of MOSAIC MENA has been instrumental in generating substantial advancements in service provision, advocacy, and capacity development. Further, thier engagement with the UKRI GCRF as a Primary Investigator accentuates their dedication to intersectional research, encompassing themes such as masculinity, sexuality, migration, and displacement.
Organisation: Mosaic (Lebanon)
ILGA-Europe
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ILGA-Europe
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Olena Shevchenko
ILGA-Europe
Elected at ILGA Europe Conference, Online, October 2020
Olena Shevchenko (she/her) is a human rights defender and educator from Ukraine whose focuses are LGBT rights and women’s rights. She is a head of Insight, a public organisation she and two of her friends founded and officially registered in 2008.
Insight is unique among other LGBTQI organizations because of its trans and intersex inclusiveness and feminist approach. Before founding Insight, Olena volunteered for 3 years in a feminist-lesbian organisation and was a senior teacher for 4 years at the National Pedagological University in Kiev. Today Insight, under her leadership, has become a visible and significant player for advocacy both nationally and internationally.
In 2012 Olena was elected as a Co-chair of LGBT Council of Ukraine – a new all-Ukrainian umbrella association, where she is also the head of the advocacy and PR committees. In 2010 Olena was elected as a Board member of IGLYO (International LGBT youth organization). This experience brings an international integration and globalisation perspectives in to her local work. She has edited two research papers on the situation of LGBT families in Ukraine and the situation with Transgender rights. In 2014 became an author of the book ABC on LGBT rights.
Organisation: Insight (Ukraine)
ILGA-Europe
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ILGA-Europe
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Yuri Guaiana
ILGA-Europe
Elected at ILGA-Europe Conference, online, October 2020
Yuri Guaiana (he/him) is an opinionated freedom fighter and activist for human rights based in Italy. He is president of Associazione Radicale Certi Diritti, senior campaigner at All Out and secretary of LGBTI Liberals of Europe.
From 2011 to 2016, he has been leading Certi Diritti’s work to achieve marriage equality in Italy through strategic litigations which contributed to the achievement of a civil union law in Italy. He has also been leading the work of Italian coalitions at the UN, specifically around UPR and treaty body processes which resulted 17 recommendations to Italy on the Human Rights of LGBTI people in the latest UPR cycle, including a law against homophobia and transphobia, the recognition of same-sex parents, adoptions for same-sex couples and a ban on cosmetic surgery on intersex children. He has also worked for establish a network and then a creating an international organisation of liberal LGBTI organisations in Europe which resulted the funding of LGBTI Liberals of Europe in 2018.
From 2013 to 2019 he sat in the ILGA-Europe Executive Board working in different roles, including the one of co-secretary, and gaining valuable experience in governing an international organisation.
Since 2017, he has been leading All Out’s work against the anti-gay crackdown in Chechnya – including being detained in Moscow with local activists, as they tried to deliver 2 million petition signatures to Russian authorities – and the campaign against the Italian government endorsement of the World Congress of Families, one of the world’s most powerful anti-choice and anti-LGBT+ groups in the world, when they gathered in Verona this year. He has also been leading All Out’s work for a law protecting women and LGBT+ people from discrimination and violence in Italy.
organisation: Associazione Radicale Certi Diritti (Italy)
Co-Chair of ILGALAC
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Co-Chair of ILGALAC
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Ari Vera Morales
Co-Chair of ILGALAC
Elected at the ILGALAC Conference, Bogotà, November 2019
Ari Vera Morales (she/her) is a trans woman, originally from the port of Veracruz. She began her professional walk by pursuing a degree in Special Education focusing on learning problems at the Escuela Normal Veracruzana Enrique C. Rebsamen, thus facing her first obstacle, since she was not allowed to continue. Without giving up, she obtained a degree in Marketing at the Universidad de Insurgentes in Mexico City, and later a master’s degree in the Defence and Promotion of Human Rights at the Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México (UACM).
Her interest in working with vulnerable populations was born out of some personal and close experiences, thus giving rise to the association Almas Cautivas, which works in favour of people within the LGBTI community deprived of their liberty in Mexico City’s prisons: the organisation has received the Mirabal Sisters 2014, LoveAwards 2019 and Alebrijes 2019 prizes.
She is also the founder of the international network Corpora en Libertad, a group of LGBT organizations around the world dedicated to the protection and defense of LGBT people in prison.
She is a member of the Consultative Assembly of the Council for the Prevention and Elimination of Discrimination in Mexico City (COPRED), and she is currently the Director of Institutional Relations of the Mexican Federation of LGBT Entrepreneurs, which specializes in creating work spaces free of discrimination.
She believes that this is her definining thought: “Even in the darkest places like prisons, dignity, respect and love must always be guaranteed.”
organisation: Almas Cautivas (Mexico)
ILGALAC
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ILGALAC
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Darío Arias (he/him) is a political and social activist, co-founder and coordinator of Conurbanos Por La Diversidad – Jóvenes Por La Diversidad, an organization that works on LGBTI issues in the suburbs of Buenos Aires. He coordinates the Political Affairs Area of the Commission of Justice for Diana Sacayán. He has a degree in Social Communication from the National University of La Matanza and is pursuing a master’s degree in Social Policies from the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences.
Organisation: Conurbanxs por la Diversidad- Jóvenes por la Diversidad (Argentina)
ILGA North America & Caribbean
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ILGA North America & Caribbean
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Kimberly Frost (she/her) currently works for Local 1102 RWDSU/UFCW and serves as Executive board member/Treasurer for OUTreach, an LGBT Labor constituency organization that supports locals across the country. In addition to developing training and education materials for their nationwide membership, OUTreach offers scholarships for members to go to seminars and conferences, to build expertise and strengthen the Labor movement.
Kimberly is also president of Pride at Work NYC/LI- an AFL-CIO constituency group. Pride at Work relies on the support of workers and allies around the country for our important work to make unions better for LGBTQ people and connect the LGBTQ community to the labor movement. The ALF-CIO is different from UFCW in that it reaches members in the trade unions, where there is a large need for representation and job protection.
“The work I participate in at OUTreach and Pride at Work is very near and dear to my heart. Coming from Labor, our first goal is to make our member’s lives better. We do that through union representation, union benefits and pensions. That we get to add another level of protection to our LGBT members is an honor. As a lesbian, mother and union member, I am honored to help, educate and train members and staff to make sure that our LGBT community is protected at work and have the same quality of life as every other human.”
Kimberly holds a BA in accounting, and a Masters in Business Administration from Adelphi University.
Organisation: OUTreach
ILGA North America & the Caribbean co-Chair
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ILGA North America & the Caribbean co-Chair
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Renae Green
ILGA North America & the Caribbean co-Chair
Renae Green (she/her) is an LGBTQ, youth, and women’s rights advocate who is committed and passionate about her work with the community. Renae has served as the LGBT representative on the Jamaica Country Coordinating Mechanism for the Global fund (JCCM) for two years and currently now serves as the NGO alternate. She is also the Jamaica representative for the UCTRANS which is the only regional trans network. She served also as a Restless Development youth advocate as well as an IPPF youth advocate, both in her capacity as a sexual and reproductive health rights advocate.
Additionally, she brings with her regional and international exposure through her participation in human rights workshops, conferences, and training. She also sits on the civil society steering committee for the spotlight initiative to end gender-based based violence as the sexual and reproductive health rights representative.
Renae currently serves as the Executive Director for TransWave Jamaica, which is the only trans-led and focused organisation operating in Jamaica. Under her portfolio, she is responsible for leading the organisation and stands at the front of trans advocacy in Jamaica.
organisation: TransWave Jamaica
ILGA Oceania co-Chair
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ILGA Oceania co-Chair
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Margherita Coppolino (she/her) is an inclusion/intersectionality consultant and photographer. With an outstanding network of contacts in government, business and social justice organisations, Margherita has a proven ability to inspire and influence a wide range of stakeholders on inclusion/intersectionality issues. She has strong commercial acumen and ability to frame inclusion issues in a commercial context.
Margherita has undertaken the Australia Institute of Company Directors training and has sat on several Boards in executive and non-executive positions. In 2022, she was appointed as ILGA Oceania Chair (and to the ILGA World Board), and Vice Chair on Drummond/&Queer-space Board.
In 2017, she was nominated as the National Ethnic Disability Alliance’s (NEDA’s) President. Margherita was appointed to the Victorian Ministerial LGBTI Taskforce in 2020 and SBS Community Advisory Committee in 2019. Previously, she held the position of Chair on Arts Access Victoria and Australia Federation of Disability Organisations (AFDO) Boards. She has also held non-executive positions on Spectrum Migrants Resources Centre and Action on Disability Within Ethnic Communities, Women with Disabilities Australia and Short Statured People of Australia.
In 2020, Margherita moderated the Queering the COSP Side Event at United Nations CRPD COSP 13 and was a panellist member on the 2018 LGBTIQA side event at the United Nationals CRPD COSP11 in New York. She was also on the Intersectionality Panel at the Outright Advocacy Summit 2020.
Margherita is a first generation Australian, born to a Sicilian mother who migrated to Australia in 1959. She was born with a Short Statured condition and is a proud feminist and lesbian. In her spare time, you will find Margherita either taking photos, volunteering, working out in the gym, travelling, wine and whisky tasting, and chilling with friends.
organisation: Invictus Health (Australia)
ILGA Oceania co-Convenor
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ILGA Oceania co-Convenor
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Ken Moala
ILGA Oceania co-Convenor
Ken Moala is a trailblazer for LGBTIQ health and rights with 30 years of outstanding service to advance the rights of LGBTIQ people and beyond.
Ken is a faafafine, Chaplain and human rights activist from Samoa and Australia.
Some of his achievements:
Membership on Boards & Steering Committees:
Organisation: Pacific Sexual & Gender Diversity Network (Tonga)
Pan Africa ILGA alternate co-Chair
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Pan Africa ILGA alternate co-Chair
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Líria Victoria Miguel de Castro
Pan Africa ILGA alternate co-Chair
Elected at the Pan Africa ILGA conference, online, August / October 2021
Líria de Castro (she/her) graduated in International Relations from the Institute of Social Sciences and International Relations. Since 2017, she has been the African Youth Charter Ambassador to Angola 2020-2022. An LGBTIQ+ feminist activist with 5 years of professional experience, she is passionate about her area of expertise.
Líria de Castro is currently Director General of Arquivo de Identidade Angolano (AIA), the first LBTIQ+ feminist organisation in Angola defending the rights of lesbian, bisexual, intersex, trans and queer women. She is also the alternate co-Chair of Pan Africa ILGA.
In her spare time, she likes to listen to music, read a book, talk to friends and rest.
organisation: Arquivo de Identidade Angolano (AIA) (Angola)
Pan Africa ILGA alternate co-Chair
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Pan Africa ILGA alternate co-Chair
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Rukundo Isaac Mugisha
Pan Africa ILGA alternate co-Chair
Elected at the Pan Africa ILGA conference, online, August / October 2021
Isaac Mugisha Rukundo is a celebrated Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex (LGBTI) rights activist. He has dedicated his life to ensure LGBTI activists have access to essential services, justice and information in Uganda. He has proactively taken part in key events and milestones in the LGBTI space in Uganda. Isaac’s vision is to live in a world that respects Human Rights for All.
Isaac is currently the Director of Communications and Advocacy at Spectrum Uganda Initiatives (SUI). He has previously worked as a Grants Intern with UHAI-EASHRI, Sex Workers Desk and Executive Assistant with SUI and a Campus Coordinator with Sexual Health and Rights for Youth (SHARRY). Since 2016, Isaac assumed leadership as Coordinator of Pride Uganda, a role he continues to diligently serve todate. Under his leadership of Pride Uganda, effective coordination and community participation has increased even when police continued to interrupt the Pride organising.
organisation: Spectrum Uganda Initiatives (Uganda)
ILGA Asia alternate co-Chair
ILGA Asia alternate co-Chair
Jennifer Lu
ILGA Asia alternate co-Chair
elected at the ILGA Asia conference in Ho Chi Minh City, December 2022
Biography coming soon!
organisation: Taiwan Equality Campaign
ILGA Asia alternate co-Chair
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ILGA Asia alternate co-Chair
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Tashi Tsheten
ILGA Asia alternate co-Chair
elected at the ILGA Asia conference in Ho Chi Minh City, December 2022
Tashi Tsheten (he/they) is the current Coordinator and Program Manager of Queer Voices of Bhutan (QVoB) and also a member of the Core Working Group of Youth Voices Count (YVC).
Queer Voices of Bhutan is an advocacy platform in Bhutan which works to create safe spaces and awareness surrounding SOGIESC issues, based in Thimphu (the capital city of Bhutan). Organised in 2018, Queer Voices of Bhutan seeks to address issues surrounding social, political, economic, and legal challenges faced by the diverse community in Bhutan.
organisation: Queer Voices of Bhutan (Bhutan)
ILGA-Europe alternate
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ILGA-Europe alternate
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Annika Ojala (she/her) is an intersectional feminist and human rights advocate from Finland. She is the alternate to the European representatives in the ILGA Board.
Annika has over 10 years of experience working for human rights around the globe. Her expertise on feminist leadership, advocacy, human rights, safer spaces and the power of diversity reflect her professional skills and her personal survivor experiences.
Annika holds a bachelor’s degree in political science and is a qualified community educator, specializing in civic action and promoting diversity and participation in NGOs.
Annika worked for Lawyers for Human Rights in South Africa in 2011, where she advocated for the rights of refugee and asylum seekers. After graduating from Université Paris VIII, she engaged in multiple grassroots organisations, doing anti-racist and gender-sensitive work. While facilitating support groups for survivors of violence with Monika Multicultural Women’s Association, she witnessed the hard realities survivors of gender-based violence are faced with. Something had to be done. Her activism turned political, and she soon began working for the Finnish Green Women’s Association. As coordinator of a political women’s rights association, Annika supports women’s political participation and human rights at local, national and international levels.
Annika is the chair of the international affairs committee for Seta – LGBTI Rights in Finland. She is a member of the Board of the Coalition of Women’s Associations in Finland, representing over 500 000 members. She also acts in Europe’s largest umbrella organisation for women’s rights, European Women’s Lobby.
Read more here: https://annikaojala.com/
organisation: Seta – LGBTI Rights in Finland
ILGA-Europe alternate
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ILGA-Europe alternate
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Yves Aerts Jacobs
ILGA-Europe alternate
Elected at ILGA-Europe Conference, Brussels, October 2018
Yves Aerts Jacobs (they/them or he/him) is a board member of ILGA-Europe and an European representative to the ILGA board. Since 2007, they have worked as the Executive Director of çavaria, the LGBTI+ umbrella organization in Flanders, the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium. The organisation strives for the well-being and fights for the rights of lesbians, bisexuals, homosexuals, trans* and inter* people in all aspects of everyday life. Çavaria also co-organises the Belgian Pride.
As coordinator, Yves leads (on a strategic level) an organization of almost 30 staff members, more than 125 member organisations and hundreds of volunteers. They are also instrumental in lobbying for LGBTI+ causes in Belgian politics.
Together with the staff members and the board, they helped to make çavaria more trans/inter* inclusive, and cooperated more thoroughly with allies (the womens’ council, refugees council, main ethnic minorities organisations, trade unions and employees, political parties, etc…).
Alongside their job at çavaria, Yves is volunteering in different cultural, political, ecological organisations and (grassroots) initiatives.
For example, Yves volunteers with a reading-based literature organisation for vulnerable individuals – such as those in poverty or psychological problems. They are involved in green politics at a local and national level, and volunteer for ecological projects like co-housing, critical mass bike rides, and so on.
organisation: Çavaria (Belgium)
ILGALAC alternate
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ILGALAC alternate
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Marlin González
ILGALAC alternate
Elected at ILGALAC Conference, Bogotà, November 2019
Marlin González (she/her) has a degree in Law and Political Science, with studies in Senior Management, Leadership and Good Practices in Integrated Sexuality Education, Sexual Health and Human Rights. She is a candidate for a Master’s degree in Education with an emphasis on School Administration. Lawyer for the Asociación de Hombres y Mujeres Nuevos de Panamá (AHMNP) in Family Law and LGBTI Rights. Attorney for the Integración Sexo-Generica Identitaria de Centroamérica ISCA Until 2018. First Legal Advisor of the Human Rights Committee of Panama that oversees Key Populations, enabled by the project for expanding and strengthening the HIV and TB prevention response in Panama – Subvención Fondo Mundial. Legal representative and accompanying person in the presentation of 75 Amicus Curiae before the Supreme Court of Justice, in equal marriage proceedings. She has publications in national and international journals on health and sexual diversity issues.
organisation: Hombres y Mujeres Nuevos de Panama (Panama)
ILGALAC alternate
ILGALAC alternate
David Aruquipa-Danna Galán
ILGALAC alternate
Elected at ILGALAC Conference, Bogotà, November 2019
Biography available soon!
organisation: Comunidad Diversidad (Bolivia)
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