Ms. Abeysekera (Sri Lanka) is a feminist and human rights defender who has worked on women’s rights and human rights issues in Sri Lanka and globally for many years. She is active in many networks, and is also part of the Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (Forum Asia). In 1998, during the UN celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, she received the UN Human Rights Prize for the Asia Pacific region. Sunila is presently Executive Director of International Women’s Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific, based in Malaysia. Read More.  

Ms. Đorđević is a feminist activist working on the prevention of violence against women and trafficking in the Balkan region. She is also active in the area of sexual rights through her involvement with the Network of Sex Work Projects and International Committee on the Rights of Sex Workers in Europe.  Currently Ms. Đorđević stands as deputy director of the Anti Trafficking Center in Belgrade, Serbia.  She co-authored UAF’s publication on sustaining activism: What’s the Point of Revolution If We Can’t Dance? and holds a Masters Degree in Migration Studies from the Sussex University in United Kingdom.

Marta Drury lives in rural northern California where she has offered quiet space to non-profits for the last thirteen years and managed 160 acres. She is a full time socially responsible philanthropist and investor with an especial interest in women and children. She is the director of The Heart and Hand Fund which funds women's groups working for peace and equity in the Balkans.

She has been an advisor to The Global Fund for Women and to IGLHRC and on the international panel of Astraea Foundation. Marta was a founding member of WDN, a founding donor of Urgent Action Fund and an active member of the trafficking circle of Global Fund for Women. Since her first visit to The Women's Building in San Francisco in 1986, she has been an enthusiastic supporter--6 years on the board and years on various committees including the chair of the development committee, chair of the capital campaign and chair of the 25th anniversary gala. In 2005, she was nominated as one of the 1000 Women for Peace for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Marta founded the Heart and Hand Fund in 1999 after speaking to a friend at 2am in Pristina, Kosova who told her that the Serbian army was going door to door in their neighborhood and herding people onto boxcars.

Ms. Fischer is a co-founder and executive director of the Angela Borba Fund for Women based in Rio de Janeiro. A Mexican-Nicaraguan and feminist activist since 1975, she founded the Angela Borba Fund in 2001 with nine other women to raise awareness of women’s contributions to society and women’s issues while changing patterns of traditional philanthropic giving. She is working to modernize the culture of philanthropy and social investment in Brazil, with the goal of transforming people’s “hand-out” mentality on giving into a deeper understanding about the importance of investing in diversity and transforming gender relations.  Ms. Fischer has a PhD in Communication and Culture, and was a professor at the Faculty of Political Science at  the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México for 20 years. Ms. Fischer is also an Ashoka and Synergos Fellow and member of the Board of Grantmakers without Borders.

Ms. Greenblatt joined UAF in July 2008 as Executive Director and CEO. She has previously served as the executive director of Bat Shalom in Jerusalem, and as founding “Activist in Residence” for the Global Fund for Women in San Francisco. She also sits as a Trustee of the Sarvodaya Gandhi International Trust in India. Ms. Greenblatt has been a women's rights and peace and justice activist in Israel for over 20 years. She is a recipient of the  Ms. Magazine ‘Woman of the Year’, 'Colombe D’oro Per La Pace',  and ‘Dialogue on Diversity Liberty' awards, and is one of the 1000 Women for Peace nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.  She speaks nationally and internationally on the responsibility of women as agents of both social and political change.

An assistant Professor in History in New York, USA, Ms. Hélie is the former Executive Director of the International Coordination Office of Women Living Under Muslim Laws. She has been closely involved with the International Initiative for Justice in Gujarat, the Women’s Caucus for Gender Justice, the Women’s Global Network for Reproductive Rights and the Women’s Research and Action Group in Bombay. Ms. Hélie is a frequent speaker on issues related to women’s rights in Muslim countries/communities. Her publications include: Documenting Women’s Rights Violations by Non-State Actors: Activist Strategies from Muslim Communities and Holy Hatred – Penalties for Homosexuality in Muslim Countries and Communities.

Chela Blitt,
USA

Ariane Brunet,
Canada, Co-founder

Hope Chigudu
Zimbabwe,
Current Chair of the Board UAF-Africa

Eleanor Douglas
Colombia,
Current director of UAF-Latin America 

Kaari Betty Murungi
Kenya
Former Executive Director UAF-Africa

Vahida Nainar
India
Current Board Member UAF-Africa

Indai Lourdes Sajor
Philippines

Margaret Schink
USA, Co-founder

Julie Shaw
USA, Co-founder and former Executive Director

Rita Thapa,
Nepal

Rachel Wareham
Afghanistan