The organisation has 8 board members. In order to ensure true representation of grassroot activists and groups, we have deliberately invited board members who are grassroot activists with extensive networks in their national-level communities. Future nominations of board members will be country-level driven to ensure the country and communities are represented on the regional level.

Ami has been an LGBT activist with an intersectional lens to rights. She first started her activism working for Asia Pacific Transgender Network (APTN) as a national research assistant to collect data on employment discrimination against transgender people in Thailand, followed by managing projects on ensuring safe spaces for LGBT students in educational institutes and the internet. Currently, she is the SOGIE and Child Rights Senior Officer with Save the Children International.

Ruang is the founder of Hinghoy Noy Thailand (2018). The organisation works on promoting the rights of children and youth to live their lives free from taboos, have freedom of expression, sex education and understand their rights through a gender lens. She also is an artist with a strong passion for feminism media, she writes journals and designs artwork under Backyard Politics Thailand, some feminism projects. Ruang is also a board member of Purple Hand Africa Trust.

Tra believes strongly in the well being, self-care, safety and security of women and LBT activists. She is a co-coordinator of Backyard Politics Thailand that provides support for women and LBT activists in marginalised communities such as migrants, rural communities as well as Muslims in the deep south. Some of her work includes, facilitation or recommendation on process to create a wellbeing policy for NGOs and CSOs, workshops, and activist toolkits that are culturally nuanced to local communities. She also co-founded FullYin women’s wellbeing space where she provides art therapy and counselling sessions for activists and human-rights defenders.

Anang Palomar is a queer transnational Feminist-Anthropologist. She led the establishment and implementation of the first rapid response grant-making program under Urgent Action Fund, Asia & the Pacific (UAF A&P) in Asia and the Pacific, the program provides holistic protection and safety for women and non-binary activists and movements in both Asia and the Pacific regions. She recently joined Dignity For All: LGBTQI+ Assistance Program, as the Senior Program Officer for Learning Initiatives. A seasoned community organizer from Queens, New York, she has collaborated in various spaces globally — women’s funds, queer movements, and educational institutions — to challenge and re-imagine practices, systems, and approaches to better support and resource queer feminists movements globally.

Lini Zurlia is an Indonesian queer feminist activist. She has been involved with issues of women and sexuality, democracy, and human rights in Indonesia for many years. She graduated from Jakarta Islamic University which gives her an in-depth perspective of the intersections of Islam, gender identity and sexual orientation.

Lini was the Advocacy Coordinator for Arus Pelangi (Indonesian LGBTI Federation) and currently she is serving as an Advocacy Officer for the ASEAN SOGIE Caucus (ASC), overseeing the advocacy work of 11 countries throughout South East Asia. Aside from her daily responsibility work with ASC, she is also a member of Arus Pelangi Board of Advisory until 2022, member of PurpleCode Collective and the co-founder and festival director of 16Film Festival in Indonesia.

Pisey joined Womyn’s Agenda for Change in 2004. From 2009, she took the Program Coordinator position with Social Action for Change, a member of United Sisterhood Alliance based in Cambodia. She’d involved in grassroots and social activism for poverty reduction, human rights and women’s development. She’s one of RoCK founders and served as a Board of Director in 2009-2017. From December 2017, she serves as the Coordinator of RoCK. She believes in collective voice and power that thrives for social justice and equality. She holds a bachelor of law.

Jean Chong is the Executive Director and co-founder of the ASEAN Feminist LBQ Network based in Bangkok, Thailand. Jean also leads and co-founded Sayoni, a queer feminist organization in Singapore that organizes community events, conducts research, and advocates for equality, well-being, and dignity to improve the lives of LBTQ people.

Her activism began as a volunteer with Safehaven, a gay Christian support network, eventually becoming their first female vice chairperson. Jean went on to become a founding member of an inclusive church, Free (First Realize Everyone is Equal) Community Church, and served as their first chairperson. Expanding her activism into local advocacy, she became a part of the core team of People Like Us in Singapore. 

Jean is the Asia advisor for the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice. She holds a Masters of Human Rights and Democratization from the University of Sydney (EU scholarship). She is the winner of the AWARE Champion for Gender Equality and Justice Award 2018 in Singapore and the APCOM Community Hero Award in 2018.

Yen’s activism began in 2004  in an online space where Vietnamese lesbian persons can connect and support each other. Inspired by and continuing the path carved by frontline lesbians who had created this space for the community, she had nine years to directly engage with the Vietnamese LGBTIQ movement through overseeing programs on leadership development and inclusive and safe education environment until 2017. From 2018 to 2022, her main focus was to ensure that the ASEAN SOGIE Caucus’ leadership program had a positive impact on the region’s LGBTIQ movement, as well as to coordinate crucial support to grassroots groups during the Covid-19 pandemic. Currently, she is an international advisor of the Dignity Network and a board member of the IDAHO Committee. She is also an advisor for a number of feminist funders in Asia. She has a BA in Korean Studies and is still on her way to completing the ‘The Truth About Cats and Dogs’ course from the University of Edinburgh via Coursera.