Our team
JEMMA HOLLONDS
Jemma has worked as a manager, lawyer, and consultant in the refugee, migration and human rights sectors for over 10 years, including with local and international NGOs, not-for-profit and community organisations, social enterprises and government agencies. Jemma enjoys using participatory approaches in design, strategy and evaluation to help organisations understand their impact and increase their effectiveness. Jemma has experience in developing monitoring, evaluation and learning systems, impact measurement frameworks, evaluation using mixed-methods approaches, developmental evaluation, and engagement with vulnerable persons. Jemma was formerly a senior managing lawyer at a refugee legal service in Australia, where she developed and managed a wide range of access to justice programs including legal services, legal education, and advocacy. She has also worked on prevention of and responses to human trafficking and exploitation in Australia and the Asia Pacific region.
Jemma is a member of the Australian Evaluation Society. She holds a Master of Business Administration (Social Impact), a Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Laws and a Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice and has been awarded for her studies in impact measurement.
Jemma speaks English (native), French (intermediate) and Tetun (basic).
HAFSAR TAMEESUDDIN
Hafsar is a former Rohingya refugee from Myanmar, the chair of Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network[APRRN], a Steering Committee Member of Asia Pacific Network of Refugees [APNOR], a member of Global Refugee-Led Network[GRN], New Zealand Country Coordinator of Free Rohingya Coalition[ FRC], an Advisory member of UNHCR Advisory Group, board of director at Forces of Renewal Southeast Asia [https://forsea.co/], interim working group member of Global Movement of Statelessness. She works as a community development navigator and social worker at Change Makers Resettlement Forum.
Hafsar has been involved in different advocacy and activism spaces on statelessness, refugee rights, asylum seekers, detention of migrants and refugees, and prevention and response to sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) for over a decade. She had worked with refugee communities on the prevention and response to SGBV [Sexual Gender-Based Violence] and child marriage in Malaysia for 8 years. She has extensive knowledge of the range of SGBV issues faced by refugee women in Malaysia as well as of their experiences prior to arrival and is a passionate advocate for improved prevention and response measures to SGBV.
Since her resettlement to New Zealand in early 2019, she had already accepted numerous invitations to present at national and international conferences on issues of gender, refugees and Statelessness. She was selected to represent the Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network, Women, Gender and Diversity working group at the UNHCR/NGO Consultations and the Gender Audit team for the Global Refugee Forum. She is committed to advocate on all issues facing refugee women and girls in all their diversities including SGBV, Statelessness and the particular risks faced by the LGBTIQ refugee communities.
Hafsar speaks Rohingya, Burmese and Rakhine fluently as well as some Malay.
NUCH LEERASANTANA
Nuchnalin (Nuchii) is a youth engagement expert and human rights activist from Thailand who has several years of experience working among people on the move communities with a specific focus on women’s empowerment.
She has worked for several international organizations serving as their national partner in research and outreach. She began her career as an anti-human trafficking protection officer for World Vision Foundation of Thailand overseeing six regions in Thailand. She was the Community Outreach Officer for a refugee rights organization called Asylum Access Thailand during which she founded a social enterprise for creating sustainable livelihood for women urban refugees called CHAMALiiN. She was also an Activism and Human Rights Educator at Amnesty International Thailand.
Nuch has been working as an independent facilitator and consultant for several organizations focusing on forced migration and human rights. She published the ‘National Screening Mechanism Assessment Report’ for the Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network on the new Thai regulation targeting urban refugees and developed a facilitation tool for the project ‘Stop Violence Now’ focusing on the Myanmari community for the organization Ban Dek Foundation. She is passionate about social equity and sustainable change and has participated in democracy protests in Bangkok.
Nuch has a Bachelor of Social Administration. She is currently pursuing her Master’s in Development and Governance at the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany.
Nuchii speaks Thai (native), English (advanced) and German (intermediate)
Francis Jimoh
Francis is a community organiser and advocates for refugee rights with over five years of experience in directly working with communities. Franic’s primary work is on building communities through collaboration, partnership, and advocacy, with a particular emphasis on the LGBTIQA+ refugee space.
Francis has worked in supporting torture and trauma recovery for displaced LGBTIQA+ refugees and continues to be actively involved in advocating for the rehabilitation of trauma survivors through a co-authorship and design of refugee support programs. Francis has worked to navigate the intersectionality of under-represented communities and advocates for their representation and visibility.
Francis speaks 6 languages including Yoruba, English, Krio, Italian, Tagalog and Hausa. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy and Ethics, as well as a Bachelor of Theology and Area Studies.
KATRINA MUNIR-ASEN
Katrina has worked extensively in project management and research in Malaysia, Australia, the United Kingdom and Germany. She has worked with both UN agencies as well as with community-based organizations and development think tanks. She has considerable experience in migration research, devising policy recommendations for government and development practitioners, and generating comprehensive situational analyses to inform future research methodologies and strategies. She is also well-versed in people and change management having lead teams through programmatic adjustments including reallocation of resources according to strategic priorities. Currently Katrina working as a consultant with UNHCR to develop context-specific training for staff and volunteers on protection in mixed movement situations.
Katrina has an MSc in Human Rights and an LLM in Immigration Law.
Katrina speaks English (native), German (intermediate) and Bahasa Melayu (intermediate).
STEPHANIE BUTTON
Stephanie has worked as a policy manager, analyst, strategist, and evaluation consultant across the social policy spectrum in the public and non-profit sector for over 10 years. She has expertise in cost-benefit analysis, impact assessment, and other quantitative evaluation methods, as well as qualitative evaluation approaches.
Stephanie is a member of the Australasian Evaluation Society. She holds a Master of Evaluation and a Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Laws.