Ambassadors

Dany is an AFSEE Fellow (Cohort 2024-25), writer, activist, and educator from Honduras, who has consulted for organisations such as the American Red Cross and the United States Institute for Peace. He has been recognised by INCAE, one of the leading business schools in Latin America, as one of 30 emerging civil society leaders of Central America. Dany enjoys being a part of AFSEE because even as the world might feel like it's feeling apart, he has found people whom he considers to be his tribe. This grounds him and gives him hope for the world. 

Diana is an AFSEE Senior Fellow (Cohort 2023-24) a gender equality specialist, feminist researcher, and trained as an anthropologist. She continuously seeks to situate her work in a conversation between academic theories and practice, grounding her work in the lived realities and experiences of the people. She values being part of a lifelong community committed to advancing equity and justice. AFSEE has offered not only a learning experience, but also lasting connections and ongoing opportunities to engage in global conversations that matter.

Hamid is an AFSEE Senior Fellow (Cohort 2022-23), researcher, and activist focusing on children's rights, civil society mobilisation, disability and autism. Since 2005, he has worked with several Iranian civil society organisations as a trainer, project manager and researcher. Currently, he serves as a researcher (research officer) for an AFSEE-funded project titled "Connecting Disability Justice with Wider Challenges to Inequalities". He is also conducting policy research on the education of disabled children. 

Josephine is an AFSEE Senior Fellow (Cohort 2023-24), social justice and movement lawyer who is passionate about human rights, business and human rights, climate and environmental justice, and sustainable and equitable natural resource governance. She specialises in research, advocacy, stakeholder engagement, strategy and programme management, and process facilitation in these critical areas. What she enjoys most about the AFSEE community is being part of a vibrant network of thoughtful, well-resourced individuals who are not only imagining a better world but actively working to build it. 

Kunsang is an AFSEE Fellow (Cohort 2024-25) exploring the complexities of Tibetan identity in the diaspora. His work focuses on youth education, cultural identity, and examining the root causes of inequality—particularly through the lens of how education systems and cultural narratives shape opportunities and power. He is also a co-founder of Yamuna Khimtsang Foundation, a community initiative in Delhi that promotes human-animal coexistence rooted in compassion. Being part of the AFSEE community allows him to connect with diverse changemakers, deepen his inquiry into systems of inequity, and co-create knowledge that can drive inclusive social change.

Madhuresh is an AFSEE Senior Fellow (Cohort 2021-22), social justice activist, researcher, and movement organiser with over two decades of experience working across India and South Asia on issues of land, forest, labour, and democratic rights. His work with the National Alliance of People’s Movements (NAPM) and international platforms like the Global Tapestry of Alternatives has connected him to powerful grassroots struggles and transnational solidarities. He enjoys the generosity, diversity, and depth that Fellows bring, and he looks forward to helping others from South and South East Asia access and engage with this incredible network. 

Mauro is an AFSEE Senior Fellow (Cohort 2020-21), socio-environmental campaigner, activist, and writer with more than 15 years of experience working against inequalities and systemic corruption. He has expertise in climate negotiations, energy transition, and gender rights, as well as storytelling and digital and grassroots organising. Mauro believes the AFSEE programme has reinvigorated the brilliant and passionate aspect of global communities with vivid interests in challenging the current state of the world.

Nasha is an AFSEE Fellow (Cohort 2024-25) from Malaysia, where she works with refugees and asylum seekers. In the last decade, she has been designing and managing livelihood and income programs for various NGOs and CBOs that work with Refugees from the Middle East, Central Asia, and Myanmar. She has managed a CBO, Rohingya Women Development Network, since 2016, where most of the refugees are survivors of child marriage. She was admitted to practice law in 2012 and practiced criminal law in Australia. 

Oabona is an AFSEE Fellow (Cohort 2020-21), researcher, social worker, and Executive Director of Friends of Diversity. With over eight years of experience in the human rights movement across Botswana and internationally, his work centres on dismantling discriminatory systems that marginalise young women, girls, and queer communities in sub-Saharan Africa. As part of the AFSEE community, Oabona values the shared vision, solidarity, and opportunities for collaboration that strengthen grassroots and policy-level change. He enjoys connecting underrepresented voices to global platforms and sees AFSEE as a powerful catalyst for inclusive, transformative leadership.

Rafael is an AFSEE Senior Fellow (Cohort 2021-22) and a Peruvian social scientist interested in the multiple connections between environmental regimes, technological transitions, and the formation of public truth. He is currently a PhD Student in the Sociology Department at the University of Cambridge. His work focuses on the emergence of experimental evidentiary practices in the context of environmental deterioration. He is also active in advancing a critical approach to the political economy of the energy transition, the digital possibilities for progressive politics, and informational commons.

Solomon is an AFSEE Fellow (Cohort 2024-25), lawyer, human rights defender, researcher, and global health advocate dedicated to advancing social and economic justice. He brings extensive expertise in strategic advocacy, program development, and policy engagement, with a focus on SOGIESC rights, HIV/AIDS prevention, sexual and reproductive health, and intersectional justice. Solomon values the AFSEE community as a platform for collaboration, transformative ideas, and co-creating solutions to global inequalities.