By Delmy Martínez The scene after the 2021 presidential election: There is an air of freedom, and hope for change. The feeling of bonding is everywhere–in the looks, in the smiles, in the dance of the…
A riddle: What is more powerful than power? As the oceans boil, and the hurricanes beat violently against our shores, and the air sweats with the heat of impending doom, and our fists protest the…
READ MOREOne Day, One Voice 2020: PEOPLE ARE THE SOLUTION! CELEBRATING MOVEMENT BUILDING IN SOUTHEAST ASIA
This year, we are proud to be celebrating the 10th year of JASS’ annual regional campaign One Day, One Voice (ODOV), which aims to unite the initiatives of women across Southeast Asia around the 16…
READ MOREObituary for Mabel Moyo & Retelling Stories of Organising in Zimbabwe
We walk in the footsteps of those who came before us. What is your theory of change? But is it value for money? These pesky questions have become the bane of many an activist’s life…
When I first sat down to interview Margaret VeneKlasen, I was very nervous. I wondered whether it was even appropriate to ask this 90-year-old woman with an inspiring legacy this simple question, “Marg, how did…
By Chantrea Koeut-Urgell I have been a feminist since before I even realized or understood what feminism meant—before I even heard what “feminism” was about. I am a proud feminist because I advocate for women’s…
READ MORESafe Spaces Across Contexts: Comparing Southern Africa and Corporate America
Written by Veronica Espaillat Gender inequality manifests around the world in vastly different forms because of distinct underlying roots and causes. Take for example the case of the United States versus the Southern African region.…
By Maureen Kademaunga The fires we light are not fires to set alight police cars, they are small cooking fires we make in our township backyards to feed the children when there’s no electricity. The fires…
READ MOREBina Masadah: How Indonesian Women Transform Coastal Communities
Written by Noni Tuharea Have you ever heard of Seram Island? It is an island rich in natural resources located north of Ambon Island in Indonesia. Since 2003, Seram Island has been divided into three…
Everywhere at the Human Rights Council (HRC) the catchphrase on everyone’s tongue is “shrinking spaces for civil society”. But what does it mean, really? How are activists grappling with this “shrinking space” in their work?…
JASS Southern Africa (JASS SNA) sat down with two activists who are saying “No!” to Big Coal: Nomonde Nkosi, a young feminist activist from rural Mpumalanga, South Africa and Betty Abah a poet-environmentalist from Nigeria.…
Kicking off 2015 with an odd bang, the African Union (AU) both commited to an agenda of women’s empowerment and elected 90 year-old Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe as chair – despite international criticism of his…
Marita sits on a stool at her stall in an open market just outside Harare. She is counting brightly-coloured sweets and placing them carefully into a bag. Her neighbour on the right sells packets of…
Written by Pin Marin I have long dreamed of living in a “prosperous” Cambodia – where everyone contributes to the country’s development, where women and men are active and equal participants, and where we finally…
A Look at Positive Women’s Organising in Malawi, 2005 to 2014 It is hard to conceive the magnitude of what Malawian women activist leaders with whom JASS works and the hundreds of women they represent…
Written by Julie Lun (Caing Ngaih Lwin) “The hand that rocks the cradle rules the whole world,” goes a popular saying honoring women. But why is it that there are so many women today who…
READ MOREPutting Women’s Agenda at the Core of Indonesia’s Legislative Elections
I barely slept on the days following the elections. We in Forum Aktivis Perempuan Muda – Indonesia (FAMM-Indonesia) took part in various work related to the legislative elections of 9 April 2014 mainly to call…
The first time I got my hand on computer, I wasn’t scared at all. Maybe it’s because as a 16-year-old, I was anxious to try something new. My parents encouraged me into “techie” stuff because…
Why do men rape women? This is a simple question with a complex answer. My friends, relatives and colleagues – both men and women – often ask this question. Last year, Cambodians were put on…
READ MOREFeminist BUZZ: Beyoncé has us asking WHO & WHAT is a feminist?
Beyoncé has the internet abuzz, but this time it’s not just about her music and the groundbreaking launch of her new album—it’s also about whether or not she is a feminist. From academics to culture…
READ MOREAlquimia: Creating a community of solidarity and common purpose
What a gathering! I just got back from the JASS leadership course in Nicaragua with some 34 women activists from Mesoamerica—that part of the Americas that reaches from Panama all the way up to Mexico…
READ MOREClaiming Online Spaces for Urban Poor Women’s Causes
Written by Misty Lorin Online activism is popular in the Philippines because the mainstream media, usually owned by corporations, does not provide enough space for the people’s agenda. Through the internet, the people’s discontent and…
When a woman has been living life like that of ‘[a] rat on a treadmill,’ tired and resigned; in a state of hopelessness, helplessness and despair, on the brink of giving up—it is hard to…
READ MOREFeminist Social Struggles in a Globalised World: What Malawi’s Women Have to Teach Us
Written by Dr Simukai Chigudu JASS’ work in Malawi has many lessons to teach about activating the energy women have and opening safe spaces for them to interrogate issues of power, organize collectively and demand…
READ MOREBeauty Is In The Eye Of The Beholder, But Who Is This Beholder?
I will never forget the day I decided to cut my hair. I remember taking my walk of courage to the beauty salon seven years ago. I walked in and the lady who usually braided…
READ MOREWhy I joined the Million People March against Corruption
When Philippine President Benigno Aquino came into power in 2010, his electoral platform focused on eradicating graft and corruption in government voiced out in his “righteous road” speech. Now, apart from the recent “pork barrel”…
The winter sun bathes the gently curving road, the street, the people, the commuters and the face-brick houses. In that instant, the narrow road we have been walking upon suddenly appears welcoming and prosperous. However,…
READ MOREBreaking Barriers: Writing Herstories from the Heart
“Are writers born or made?” The young women activists of Indonesia have long resolved this classic Jack Kerouac question. The JASS-inspired organization Forum Aktivis Perempuan Muda – Indonesia (FAMM-Indonesia) or Young Indonesian Women Activists’ Forum…
READ MORETackling Women’s Stake on the Post-2015 Agenda
“Our lives are not dependent on our governments. Many governments actually fail to do their duty. They just leave the women and the people to struggle alone,” says Dina Lumbantobing of JASS Southeast Asia. In…
“I’m willing to join more protest actions and even be detained every week just to get women’s and the people’s message across,” says Abigail Extremadura, a Filipino woman activist who was arrested in a demonstration…
READ MORECYWEN: Shaping the Feminist Movement in Cambodia
In June 2008, JASS widened its movement-building institute in Southeast Asia, in line with its multiregional capacity-building initiative. This initiative, led by Indonesian activists Nani Zulminarni and Dina Lumbantobing, aimed at strengthening women’s leaderships and…
“For me, cancer is a rite of passage – from darkness to light, from sorrow to joy, from despair to hope, from confusion to enlightenment. Above all, from clinging to self-pride to warming up to…
READ MOREHighlights from the National Women’s Dialogue and More in Malawi
Over two days, more than 140 HIV positive women activists met to celebrate the campaign they built to access to better ARVs and treatment literacy. As a prelude to the Global Race to SAVE Lives…
READ MOREYoung Zambian Women Tackle Patriarchy, Power & Sex
Patriarchy. Power. Sex. These are the concepts that young women in Zambia are grappling with at the Young Women’s Leadership Camp. Patriarchy – through institutions like the family, tradition and culture, education and the media – controls women’s sexuality as…
“The Mexican government’s strategy to combat organized crime, should not be at the cost of women’s lives” – On July 16th I had the great honor of sitting next to Margarita Martinez, a spirited human…
READ MOREThe Personal is political: Inside out with Malawian feminist Tiwonge Gondwe
Writer, feminist researcher, and market organiser, Dudziro Nhengu (Zimbabwe), interviewed Malawian activist, Tiwonge Gondwe in Istanbul, Turkey (April, 2012). Tiwonge, please tell me about your relationship with JASS? I knew JASS in 2008 in Cape…
READ MOREHow Long? – Thoughts on Women and Occupy Wall Street
Translated from Spanish by Emily Goldman A few days ago, Iread the following item on Democracy Now!: “In other news from ‘Occupy,’ activists in New York erected a tent to be used only by…
READ MOREWomen Build their Collective Power by Pen and Paper in Buhera
By Vimbai Njovana The period from the FTX till now has been something of a whirlwind tour for me and an exhausting one too. As I reflect on the skills gained and the time…
READ MORECYWEN: Raising the Profile of Young Women in Cambodia
I’m in Cambodia this week getting to know the women of the Cambodian Young Women’s Empowerment Network (CYWEN) and their work around equipping young women with the confidence, information and skills needed to increase their…
8:00 a.m Zimbabwe time. At Charge Office Flea Market, where we have learnt skills to multiply the dollar for daily survival, there are stacks and stacks of second hand clothes, and unopened bales too. We…
READ MOREDays of Learning: You think I can’t dance? Watch me!
From 16th – 18th April, I joined over 300 participants from all over Southeast Asia and South Asia and beyond at CREA’s Count Me In! Conference in Kathmandu, Nepal. Count Me In! focuses on marginalized…
READ MOREHeart-Mind-Body: Creating Organizations with a Soul
The Heart-Mind-Body workshop, held at Chengeta Lodge just outside Harare (April 9 – 10), brought together 26 women, each with diverse experiences, perspectives and survival strategies, all united by a common concern: sustaining the work…
My body used to be a strange thing. It’s a fragile yet a sacred monument full of myth, which I found out later is not the truth. In some cases the myth serve as the…
READ MOREI am a Chameleon: Young Feminists in Zimbabwe Carve Out Space for Themselves
Every woman is a chameleon. She changes her color to suit the situation; she adjusts and adapts to face the pressing challenges. She wears a different face but the essence of who she is…
Movement building in Rumphi, Tiwonge Gondwe’s village (Tiwonge has been part of JASS movement building in Southern Africa from 2007) As Sindi and I drove to Tiwonge’s town in Rumphi, northern Malawi, the light was…
READ MOREReclaiming Women Space and Voices: Crossing the Line in Zimbabwe
The gathering on the 6th March 2010 was a public one at the National Art Gallery in Harare, Zimbabwe – one of the events taking place this month to commemorate International Women’s Day. The panel…
READ MOREFeminists in Resistance March in Tegucigalpa, Honduras
Pepe Lobo was inaugurated as the new president of Honduras today. After the inauguration, ousted president Mel Zelaya left Honduras with a “salvo conducto” pass from the new government. Although the Resistance opposed it, the…
Public taxis are a nightmare, the screaming and rude conductors, the cursing drivers and the vulnerable passengers. Normally I don’t pay particular attention to other passengers in these dilapidated taxis, but what I witnessed today…
How can we truly engage all generations in our movements? We all have something valuable to offer, no matter what our age, and yet the ageism that often blocks us has not been explicitly addressed.…
This morning, the women left. We had a great time but also experienced some Oh! moments. A young woman, six months pregnant, fell really sick. The truth is she came to the workshop sick. Most…
Our lives are written on our bodies. Sisters! Women living with HIV who are leaders in the AIDS movement in their communities in Malawi came together for the start of a four-day workshop organized by…
READ MOREFrom Sea Change to Rivers of Change: El Salvador
Building personal and collective empowerment for women’s rights and action Building on the JASS’ Mar de Cambios (Sea Change) region-wide gathering in July and the accompanying Wings of the Butterfly-sponsored play, Salvadoran Petateras by September had launched Rios de Cambios (Rivers of Change),…
Last week during the Sea Change Feminist Leadership School, participants created a mural of their “feminist ancestors,” women who have influences their lives as feminists and as women who cross the line. Many people brought…
Here we are in Panama — 33 women from Mexico, Central America and the US sharing and deepening our understanding of power and patriarchy with all the passion and creativity that our collective energy and…
Just a short note from Panama City about Mar de Cambios (July 5-10), where around 40 women from different MesoAmerican countries are discussing about feminism and how the patriarchal power affects ourselves and our society.
READ MOREJASS’ Role at the NWI’s “Women Redefining Democracy” Conference
JASS was thrilled to play a significant role in conceptualizing, planning, and facilitating the Nobel Women’s Initiative’s international conference entitled Women Redefining Democracy for Peace, Justice and Equality that was held in Antigua, Guatemala from…
READ MOREReligious Harmony via Feminism in Israel: A Discussion with Ms. Roula Deeb
By Vyjayanthi Vadrevu Carrie, Carmen and I had the privilege of meeting with Ms. Roula Deeb, Director and Co-Founder of the Israeli-based feminist organization Kayan. Prior to Kayan, Ms. Deeb worked at Isha L’Isha- Haifa…
Video of End of Day One Nobel Laureate Mairead Maguire closes day one of the international conference “Women Redefining Democracy.” Participants reflect on the full day of learning and knowledge, and proceed to a lively…
By Kamilia Manaf, Institut Pelangi Perempuan (Indonesian Youth Lesbian Center) Sport is very helpful for the physical and mental health. Sport can reduce stress, anger and depression. Several people do sport for fun and hobby,…
READ MOREFight Homophobia with Politics of Fun not Anger
By Kamilia ManafInstitut Pelangi Perempuan (Indonesian Youth Lesbian Center) At the AWID Feminist Forum held on November 2008 in Cape Town,South Africa, on the fourth day of the conference, I attended aworkshop on homophobia organized…
Pantsunburma shares her reflections at the JASS Crossregional Dialogue. I could learn experience sharing form difference region. JASS each regional group is come from different continent, background and political situation which make different contacts, approaches…
READ MOREWomen Crossing the Line in Cape Town at AWID ’08
JASS had a strong and visible presence at the AWID (Association for Women’s Rights in Development) Forum held in Cape Town, South Africa in November 2008. JASS core team leaders Nani Zulminarni (Indonesia) and Martha…
READ MOREInteresting event at AWID Forum in Cape Town
Today i’m very happy because i’m attend one session about dancing the revolution. I am learning about how to make activities to fun. it’s great….that’s inspiring my self to make a good plan activities in…
READ MOREWomen’s Voices Strong at the Americas Social Forum in Guatemala
Wow, what a week. It is hard to know where to start and exhaustion is setting in so my thoughts are all over the map. Perhaps I should begin by attempting to share some of…
Mexico City: August 7th, our last day together, was another action-packed 10 hours of motion as we tried to make the most of the conference and being together. A discussion about the complex world of…
Tuesday at the IAC was an action packed day for me. I got to speak in front of a lot of people which was a new experience for me and it definitely made me feel…
READ MOREFrom the Global Village and Opening Ceremony, AIDS 2008
I’m sharing this space with my friend and sister activist, Sindi Blose, from Treatment Action Campaign in South Africa. She won’t mention the fact that she did an extraordinary job of rocking the Global Village this…
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Adelaide Mazwarira Adelaide Mazwarira is a Zimbabwean feminist writer and creative storyteller – something she brings to many of JASS’ communications, publications, outreach and fundraising efforts. Adelaide currently works as the Communications Manager at JASS and is based in South Africa.
Her passion for feminisms and social justice grew from a young age which she has channeled in work with domestic violence survivors and research assistantships on violence against women and children. In her free time, Adelaide catches up on Law and Order Special Victims Unit, and her scrapbooking, and writings.
Tasha Pick
Tasha Pick (SOAS): Tasha is a queer feminist researcher based in London. Their work is situated across academic, creative and community spaces. They hold a Masters in Gender Studies from SOAS, University of London, and are about to begin a PhD exploring the connections between oceans, queer time and climate crisis. Over the past year, they have been working in public engagement at Queen Mary, University of London. Their most recent collaboration brought together East London migrant support organisations with local artists, writers and performers. Their work seeks to explore the radical imagination, the capacity to imagine and enact alternative futures, as a form of resistance to unliveable worlds.
Ronald Wesso
Ronald Wesso lives in Johannesburg, South Africa. He works as a popular educator and freelance researcher at Bentec, a research and training consultancy supporting movements for social justice around natural resources, gender and labour. Ronald has experience working with labour, land, community and feminist movements. He has written widely on these matters, including the recent popular education manual ‘Behind the Scenes of Extractives: Money, Power and Community Resistance‘ published by the Count Me In! Consortium.
Rosa Chávez
Rosa is a poet, artist, & activist of Mayan K’iche Kaqchiquel origin who has studied social sciences, cultural management and cinema and audiovisual performances. Rosa works enthusiastically and passionately with women and movements in Guatemala as the program coordinator with JASS. She has more than 15 years of experience working in community art processes and organizations for the Mayan movement. Rosa enjoys co-creating with other artists, feeling nature, drinking tea, enjoying music, and dancing a lot. Being aware of the history of her people and healing the history of her body, fills rosa with the energy necessary to work and fight with passion and in collective, for a bountiful life with other women, communities, and peoples.
Patricia adalah seorang perempuan Guatemala tulen dan feminis dengan gelar di bidang Antropologi Sosial. Patricia telah menulis artikel dan menerbitkan beberapa karya yang berkaitan dengan konteks regional, pembangunan perdamaian dan kontribusi perempuan dalam proses-proses ini, serta merancang dan memfasilitasi proses pelatihan, dengan penekanan dalam beberapa tahun terakhir pada Pendidikan Populer Feminis. Patricia menjabat sebagai Direktur Regional JASS Mesoamerika di mana ia berfokus pada produksi pengetahuan dan merupakan bagian dari Tim Kepemimpinan global JASS.
Alexa Bradley sudah bekerja sebagai organisator, fasilitator, ahli strategi organisasi, dan pendidik populer selama lebih dari 25 tahun. Dia mendirikan dan ikut memimpin Milwaukee Water Commons, membantu membentuk Great Lakes Commons, menjadi mitra senior di Grassroots Policy Project dan On the Commons, menjadi anggota dewan di Windcall, dan ikut memimpin Minnesota Alliance for Progressive Action. Saat ini, Alexa adalah Direktur Program JASS.
Tamara adalah seorang aktivis lingkungan yang berfokus pada isu kesetaraan, akses, dan komunitas. Dia mengembangkan inisiatif pengembangan kapasitas dan menciptakan kampanye multimedia untuk menghapus privilese dan meningkatkan peluang bagi populasi rentan untuk mengakses udara yang sehat, energi bersih, dan ekonomi bebas racun di tingkat lokal, regional, dan nasional. Toles O’Laughlin adalah seorang pemimpin yang memiliki banyak keahlian, seorang kolaborator, individu yang kaya akan sumber daya, dan seorang ‘konektor’. Beliau adalah Presiden dan CEO Asosiasi Pemberi Hibah Lingkungan. Sebelumnya, Toles O’Laughlin menjabat sebagai Direktur Amerika Utara di 350.org dan 350 Action, dan memimpin Jaringan Kesehatan Lingkungan Maryland, yang berbasis di Baltimore.
Phumi Mtetwa adalah seorang aktivis yang bekerja di bidang kesetaraan dan keadilan ekonomi, gender, dan LGBTI. Ia memiliki banyak pengalaman bekerja dalam konteks internasional dan regional, khususnya di Afrika Selatan dan Amerika Latin. Sebagai Direktur Regional JASS untuk Afrika Selatan, ia memiliki komitmen dan fokus pada landasan politik Pendidikan Populer Feminis, mengaitkan perjuangan di seluruh wilayah serta memajukan strategi perubahan yang menjadi kunci di saat-saat genting.
Dr. Awino Okech adalah Associate Professor di bidang Sosiologi Politik di SOAS, University of London di mana ia mengajar di Departemen Politik dan Studi Internasional. Dia juga merupakan anggota dewan editorial Human Sciences Research Council, Dewan Pengawas SOAS University of London, dan menjabat sebagai Associate Director Equity and Accountability. Karya-karyanya didasarkan pada pemikiran feminis Afrika, queer, dan internasionalis kulit hitam sebagai kerangka kerja utama untuk menyoal kekuasaan dan keadilan. Awino terus bekerja dengan dan mendukung berbagai dukungan gerakan feminis internasional dan Afrika serta organisasi multilateral dalam proyek-proyek yang berada di persimpangan antara gender dan keamanan serta masalah pengembangan organisasi yang lebih luas.
Tarso Luís Ramos telah menjadi peneliti dan oposisi kubu sayap kanan AS selama lebih dari 25 tahun. Sebelum bergabung dengan PRA pada tahun 2006, Ramos menjabat sebagai direktur pendiri program keadilan rasial di Western States Center, dan mengekspos serta menantang kampanye anti-lingkungan perusahaan sebagai direktur Wise Use Public Exposure Project. Ramos baru-baru ini menjabat sebagai aktivis di Barnard Center for the Study of Women dan merupakan Rockwood Leadership Institute National Yearlong Fellow untuk tahun 2017–2018.
Sohela Nazneen adalah seorang Fellow yang berbasis di klaster Tata Kelola Pemerintahan, memimpin penelitian IDS tentang Gender dan Politik dan memimpin program MA unggulan IDS di bidang Gender dan Pembangunan. Kerja-kerja Sohela berfokus pada pemberdayaan perempuan, gerakan feminis, dan daya tanggap negara terhadap kebijakan kesetaraan gender di Asia Selatan, sub-Sahara Afrika, dan Timteng. Dia telah menerbitkan karya-karyanya secara luas tentang isu-isu ini, termasuk di World Development, Development Policy Review, Gender and Development dan jurnal-jurnal lainnya. Sohela telah bekerja sebagai konsultan untuk SDC, UNWomen, UNDP, Irish Aid, The MacArthur Foundation, dan lembaga-lembaga lainnya.
Zeph adalah seorang aktivis hak asasi manusia dan keadilan lingkungan/iklim di Filipina, feminis, ahli komunikasi, ahli strategi, dan pendidik politik populer yang bekerja dengan berbagai jaringan di Asia Tenggara, terutama jaringan perempuan pedesaan dan masyarakat adat serta komunitas LGBTQ untuk membela tanah, air, wilayah, dan hak-hak mereka. Zeph memimpin proses perumusan strategi tim JASS Asia Tenggara secara keseluruhan sebagai Direktur Regional.
EJ (nama panggilan populernya) telah aktif dalam gerakan feminis dan keadilan sosial di negaranya, benua Afrika, dan secara global. Dia memulai karir pengembangannya dengan Women’s Action Group. Sejak saat itu, EJ menjadi salah satu pendiri Majelis Konstitusi Nasional Zimbabwe, bekerja di Pan-African Women in Law and Development in Africa (WiLDAF), menjadi bagian dari Feminist Leadership Institute yang pertama kali diselenggarakan di Center for Women’s Global Leadership di Rutgers University, menjabat sebagai Direktur Global untuk Hak-Hak Perempuan di ActionAid’s International, dan juga sebagai Associate Country Director Oxfam-Canada di Zimbabwe. Sejak tahun 2014, Everjoice menjabat sebagai Direktur Program dan Penjangkauan Global ActionAid International.
Ipsita Divedi
Ipsita adalah seorang artivist (aktivis-seniman) feminis muda dan peneliti dari India. Kerja-kerja Ipsita fokus pada topik persimpangan antara gender, pendidikan, dan aktivisme orang muda. Ia sangat percaya dengan komunikasi berbasis harapan (hope-based) dan memiliki ketertarikan dengan ragam emosi manusia yang menggambarkan empati, kebaikan, serta perspektif kemanusiaan bersama.
Ipsita Divedi
Ipsita is a young feminist artivist and researcher from India. She works on the intersections of gender, education, and youth activism. She is a strong believer in hope-based communications and loves to capture various human emotions invoking empathy, kindness & shared humanitarian worldview.
Crystal Simeoni
Sonia Corrêa adalah seorang research associate di Asosiasi Interdisipliner Brasil untuk AIDS (ABIA), Rio de Janeiro. Sejak tahun 2002, ia telah menjadi salah satu ketua Sexuality Policy Watch (SPW), sebuah forum global yang terdiri dari para peneliti dan aktivis yang terlibat dalam analisis tren global dalam kebijakan dan politik yang berkaitan dengan seksualitas. Baru-baru ini, ia telah menyunting dua koleksi studi tentang “Politik Anti-gender di Amerika Latin”. Ia pernah mengajar di institusi akademik seperti Colegio de México dan Departemen Studi Gender di London School of Economics. Ia memiliki gelar sarjana arsitektur dan gelar pascasarjana di bidang antropologi.
Crystal Simeoni
Crystal Simeoni is a Pan-African feminist activist and Director of Nawi – the Afrifem Macroeconomics Collective (The Nawi Collective). She works at the intersection of the technical and the colloquial, of critique and imagination, of knowledge and practice, of language and of the creation of community. She curates the work of the Nawi collective who, in community with other African feminists and organizations, work on analysing, influencing and reimagining macro level economic policies and narratives. Before Nawi, Crystal was head of Advocacy with a focus on Economic Justice at FEMNET, and the Policy Lead for the Tax and the International Financial Architecture pillar at TJN-A before that. She is also currently an Atlantic Fellow for Social and Economic Equity at the London School of Economics. In her understanding, in her critique and her imagining of a different way, her work is always at the service of life.
Raisa Phillip
Raisa adalah Manajer – Program dan Inovasi di CREA. Raisa terlibat secara erat dalam kerja-kerja CREA sebagai bagian dari konsorsium Count Me In! (CMI!), menantang agenda kriminalisasi, dan inisiatif CREA tentang feminist faultiness. Selama lebih dari 10 tahun, Raisa telah bekerja bersama badan-badan intervensi berbasis hak; mulai dari hak-hak orang dengan HIV/AIDS, hak-hak anak, keadilan gender, dan partisipasi politik kaum muda. Kerja-kerjanya meliputi implementasi program, pengembangan kebijakan, pengembangan jaringan, dan penelitian. Ia memiliki gelar M.A. di bidang Pekerjaan Sosial dari Tata Institute of Social Sciences, dan M.A. di bidang Gender dan Pembangunan dari Institute of Development Studies.
Sonia Corrêa
Sonia Corrêa adalah seorang research associate di Asosiasi Interdisipliner Brasil untuk AIDS (ABIA), Rio de Janeiro. Sejak tahun 2002, ia telah menjadi salah satu ketua Sexuality Policy Watch (SPW), sebuah forum global yang terdiri dari para peneliti dan aktivis yang terlibat dalam analisis tren global dalam kebijakan dan politik yang berkaitan dengan seksualitas. Baru-baru ini, ia telah menyunting dua koleksi studi tentang “Politik Anti-gender di Amerika Latin”. Ia pernah mengajar di institusi akademik seperti Colegio de México dan Departemen Studi Gender di London School of Economics. Ia memiliki gelar sarjana arsitektur dan gelar pascasarjana di bidang antropologi.
Shereen adalah seorang feminis, aktivis, pendidik populer, akademisi, dan Direktur Eksekutif JASS sejak tahun 2020. Kerja-kerja Shereen didasarkan pada keterlibatannya dengan perempuan dalam serikat pekerja, gerakan sosial, dan organisasi berbasis masyarakat. Shereen telah menerbitkan banyak tulisan tentang feminisme, gerakan perempuan, dan pengorganisasian gerakan sosial di berbagai jurnal, mulai dari jurnal-jurnal Afrika Selatan hingga jurnal-jurnal internasional.
Sonia Corrêa
Sonia Corrêa is a research associate at the Brazilian Interdisciplinary Association for AIDS, in Rio de Janeiro. Since 2002, she has been a co-chair of Sexuality Policy Watch (SPW), a global forum comprised of researchers and activists engaged in the analyses of global trends in sexuality related policy and politics. Recently, she has edited two collections of studies on “Anti-gender Politics in Latin America”. She has taught at academic institutions such as the Colegio de México and the London School of Economics’ Department of Gender Studies. Since the late 1970s she has been involved in research and advocacy on gender equality, sexuality, health and human rights, closely following the United Nations negotiations on women’s rights and sexual and reproductive rights. She has a degree in architecture, with a postgraduate degree in anthropology.
Alexa Bradley has worked as an organizer, facilitator, organizational strategist and popular educator for over 25 years. She founded and co-directed Milwaukee Water Commons, helped form Great Lakes Commons, was a senior partner at the Grassroots Policy Project and On the Commons, sat on the board for Windcall and co-directed the Minnesota Alliance for Progressive Action. Currently, Alexa is JASS’ Programme Director.
Phumi Mtetwa is an activist working on issues of economic, gender and LGBTI equality and justice. She has a wealth of experience having worked in international and regional contexts particularly, Southern Africa and Latin America. As Regional Director for JASS Southern Africa, she continues her commitments to the political underpinnings of Feminist Popular Education, interlinking struggles across borders as well as advancing change strategies key for the conjuncture.
Zeph is a Filipina human-rights and environmental/climate justice activist, feminist, communicator, strategist, and political popular educator working with diverse networks in Southeast Asia, particularly rural and indigenous women and LGBTQ community in defense of land, water, territories, and rights. Zeph leads the JASS Southeast Asia team’s overall strategy direction as Regional Director.
Patricia is a proud Guatemalan woman, feminist, with a degree in Social Anthropology. Patricia has written articles and published several works related to regional contexts, the construction of peace and the contribution of women to these processes, as well as designed and facilitated training processes, with emphasis in recent years on Feminist Popular Education. Patricia serves as the Regional Director of JASS Mesoamerica where she focuses on knowledge production and is part of the JASS global Leadership Team.
Tamara is an environmentalist focused on equity, access, and community. She develops capacity building initiatives and creates multimedia campaigns to dismantle privilege and increase opportunities for vulnerable populations to access healthy air, clean energy, and a toxic free economy at the local, regional, and national level. Toles O’Laughlin is a multi-hyphenate leader, a co worker, resource and connector. She is the President and CEO of the Environmental Grantmakers Association. Previously, Toles O’Laughlin was North America Director at 350.org and 350 Action, and led the Maryland Environmental Health Network, based in Baltimore.
Dr. Sohela Nazneen is a Fellow based in the Governance cluster, leads IDS’ research on Gender and Politics and convenes IDS flagship MA in Gender and Development. Sohela’s work focuses on women’s empowerment, feminist movements and state responsiveness to gender equality policies in South Asia, sub Saharan Africa and MENA. She has published widely on these issues, including in World Development, Development Policy Review, Gender and Development and other journals. Sohela has worked as a consultant for SDC, UNWomen, UNDP, Irish Aid, The MacArthur Foundation and other agencies.
Tarso Luís Ramos has been researching and challenging the U.S. right wing for more than 25 years. Before joining Political Research Associates (PRA) in 2006, Ramos served as founding director of Western States Center’s racial justice program, and exposed and challenged corporate anti-environmental campaigns as director of the Wise Use Public Exposure Project. Ramos recently served as an activist in residence at the Barnard Center for the Study of Women and a Rockwood Leadership Institute National Yearlong Fellow for 2017–2018.
Raisa is the Manager – Programs and Innovation at CREA. Her primary area of engagement is with CREA’s work as a part of the Count Me In! (CMI!) consortium, challenging the criminalization agenda, and CREA’s initiative on feminist faultiness. For over 10 years Raisa has been working with rights based interventions on HIV/AIDS, child rights, gender justice and political participation of young people. Her work has included program implementation, policy building, network development, and research. She holds a M.A in Social Work from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, and an M.A in Gender and Development from the Institute of Development Studies.
Dr. Awino Okech is Associate Professor in Political Sociology at SOAS, University of London where she teaches in the Department of Politics and International Studies. She is also a member of the Human Sciences Research Council editorial board, the Board of Trustees of SOAS University of London, and serves as Associate Director Equity and Accountability. Her work is grounded in African feminist, queer, and Black internationalist thought as central frameworks for thinking about power and justice. Awino continues to work with and support a range of international and African feminist movement support and multilateral organizations on projects that sit at the intersection of gender and security as well as broader organizational development concerns.
EJ (as she is popularly known) has been active in feminist and social justice movements in her country, the African continent and globally. She started her development career with Women’s Action Group. Since then EJ has been one of the founders of the Zimbabwe National Constitutional Assembly, has worked in the Pan-African Women in Law and Development in Africa (WiLDAF), was part of the first Feminist Leadership Institute held at the Center for Women’s Global Leadership at Rutgers University, served as ActionAid’s International’s Global head of Women’s Rights, as well as Oxfam-Canada’s Associate Country Director in Zimbabwe. Since 2014, Everjoice has been ActionAid International’s Director for Programs and Global Engagement.
Shereen is a Zimbabwean feminist, activist, popular educator, academic and JASS Executive Director since 2020. Shereen’s work is grounded in her engagement with women in trade unions, social movements, and community-based organizations. Shereen has published widely on feminism, women’s movements, and social movement organizing in journals in South Africa and internationally.
Develop Women leaders
JASS equips women activists with the skills and strategies they need to organize others and challenge violence and injustice in politics, in their communities, at work or at home. To date, we have trained more than 3,000 women to lead in social movements and bring fresh ideas and strategies back to their communities, where they mobilize many more.
Onyeka Nwabunnia is a African feminist Researcher and writer with 4 years of experience working in the non-profit sector focused on social policy, gender, and international development. She holds a Masters in Gender Studies and Law from SOAS University of London and a BA in Political Science and African Studies from Colgate University. Onyeka currently works as a Research Officer for the Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Presidential Center for Women and Development in Liberia. Onyeka is the founder of the Blog Griotte, hosted on the feminist knowledge sharing platform The Only Space (TOS). As a feminist, Onyeka is driven by questions concerning how we create knowledge and understand the world.
Build Cross-Movement Networks
Collective power is our greatest resource for upending inequality. Building inclusive networks across many divides not only leverages this power for social and political change, but also provides the basis for the collective safety women activists need when challenging the status quo. JASS has catalyzed 8 powerful cross-issue networks and fostered collaboration among 450+ organizations to work together from a feminist perspective.
JASS leverages international networks and allies to advocate and influence the thinking and decisions of governments, donors, institutions, NGOs, and the international human rights community. We have hosted over 100 convenings with academics, civil society organizations, and policy makers, centering the voices and specific concerns of women activists and human rights defenders, and advancing the support for gender equality and feminist movement strategies.
When women speak out and offer leadership, their voices are often dismissed or silenced. JASS turns up the volume on women’s voices by providing greater access to the tools and platforms women need to broadcast their truth and build support for their agendas. Through community radio, social media, hosted political dialogues, engagement with journalists and other communications strategies, we are making sure that women’s stories of change, innovations and feminist perspectives shape the narratives about what’s wrong, what’s needed, and what we are doing about it.
JASS is dedicated to bridging theory and practice and ensuring that the knowledge of grassroots women and activists helps to shape ideas, policies, and practice. We document insights from frontline change processes and multiply their reach and impact in the form of analyses, case studies, toolkits, and other practical resources. The knowledge we produce is widely used by activists and their allies and is influential in the field of international human rights and development.
