| Executive Director & BoD Secretary:Ellene Sana is a human rights cum solidarity activist for many years and is now full time in migrants rights advocacy. As a solidarity activist, she was active in the movement for independence and democracy in East Timor and Burma and in the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa. As migrants rights activist and executive director of CMA, she serves as resource person, trainor and facilitator in many forums on migration issues, both in country and overseas. She is a civil engineer by profession and has been building bridges of solidarity across nations and peoples.
Chairperson:
Concepcion Garcia-Ramilo is senior manager and consultant who specialized on gender policy and the use of information and communications technology (ICT); She has excellent organizational and management skills developed over 20 years leading and managing multi-country and multi-disciplinary action-research teams and online networks; a leading authority on gender evaluation and the use of ICT for gender equality; has excellent English writing and communication skills. She is currently manager of the women’s program of the Association for Progressive Communications.
Vice-Chairperson:
Rene (Direk) R. Raya is an information management specialist with special competencies in survey and quantitative analysis, data management, poverty and social indicators monitoring. Mr. Raya has a university degree in statistics with long years of experience and international exposure in social research, policy analysis and advocacy. He served as consultant on various projects implemented by INGOs (Social Watch International, Asia and South Pacific Association for Basic and Adult Education/ ASPBAE), development partners and UN agencies (UNICEF, WHO). He served as project coordinator of several EU assisted projects in the areas of MDG monitoring, education and literacy, and budget advocacy (Action for Economic Reforms, ASPBAE, Social Watch Philippines). Currently, Direk is board member and social policy coordinator of AER; co-convenor of Social Watch Philippines and Consultatnt on Education Policy Development of ASPBAE.
Treasurer and board member:
Dr. Renato Mabunga,Phd served as National Secretary General of the Promotion of Church Peoples Rights (ECPR) from 1991-1996. He was Deputy Secretary General of the Philippine Alliance of Human Rights Advocates (PAHRA) from 1998-2002 and eventually Secretary General. He also worked with Partnership for Agrarian Reform and Rural Development Services Inc. (PARRDS) in 2003. He is currently the chairperson of Human Rights Defenders Pilipinas. He has a Phd on Organizational Development.
Board Members:.
Malu Padilla works in the Capacity Building, Social Performance and Finance Analysis Department of Oikocredit International; She is also Programme Coordinator at Transcode Programme (Transnational Synergy for Cooperation and Development). In the past, she was active (and still volunteers) in the Amsterdam—based Commission for Filipino Migrant Workers.
Areas of Expertise: Management, migration and development, gender, women and human rights
Carmel (Melay) V. Abao is a full time faculty member of the Department of Political Science of the Ateneo de Manila University. She is also currently completing a doctoral degree in development studies at the De La Salle University. Before joining the academe, she was actively involved in several social and political movements, particularly as a labor organizer and educator in the 1980s and later, in the 1990s, as a researcher for the Institute for Popular Democracy (IPD). She continues to be involved in labor issues including migrant labor issues.
Volunteer Legal Counsel: Atty. Henry S. Rojas is an Attorney-at-Law and Policy Research and Development Specialist whose areas of expertise include: Overseas Migration Issues, Overseas Absentee Voting, Human Rights and Migrant Rights, Issues on Judicial and Social Reforms and General Practice of Law (litigation, corporate law, civil law, labor law, etc.). |
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