Board of Directors
Virisila Buadromo
Virisila Buadromo is a Fijian feminist and was recently appointed one of two co-leads of the Urgent Action Fund for Women’s Human Rights Asia and Pacific. Her new role is focused on strategic partnerships and resource mobilisation.
Prior to joining UAF AP, Virisila freelanced as a feminist facilitator, trainer and gender advisor in the Pacific and Asia focusing on organisational strengthening and supporting feminist coalitions and movements in the two regions. Virisila’s feminist beginnings were nurtured at the Fiji Women’s Rights Movement, a cutting-edge feminist organisation that she led for more than 13 years.
Bettina Baldeschi
Bettina Baldeschi has over 20 years’ experience in social change and international development, with a particular focus on advancing women’s rights and gender equality.
Bettina has worked in large and smaller institutions from UNHCR and Oxfam Great Britain to spending over a decade in leadership roles at the International Women’s Development Agency, one of the largest feminist organisations in Asia and the Pacific, including as its Chief Executive Officer. She brings experience in feminist leadership, strategy, communications and resource mobilisation, culture transformation, governance, and mentorship.
Brenda Campos
Brenda Beatriz Campos is a feminist and political activist with more than a decade of experience coordinating and managing projects/programs that promote the transformation of discriminatory social norms and power structures, sustainable livelihoods, social and gender justice, political participation and citizen engagement.
Over the last eight years, alongside overseeing national initiatives such as the Decolonial Feminist School for young girls, a series of reflections on Extractivism and Feminist Alternatives, the introduction of feminist perspectives in trade unions, the series of publications “Feminist Dialogues” and “Feminist Reflections”, which address contemporary African issues from a feminist perspective, she is also responsible for coordinating the Feminist Ideas Lab’s, a space for academics, social activists and progressive women in trade unions and the political arena in different regions of the African continent to rethink and reflect on contemporary challenges and collectively forge alternatives.
Currently, she is the Coordinator of the Gender, Feminism and Transformation Competence Center for Sub-Saharan Africa at the Friedrich Ebert Foundation. She has a background in environmental management and community development and considerable experiences working with communities, young women and adolescents, providing training and Mentorship based on participatory methodologies, inspired by feminist popular education methods. She is an independent consultant and a member of various organizations and social movements in Mozambique.
Kathy Durand
