Women
Affairs
for Development Asbl
The Team
Xaviera Medina
Director
Xaviera is a communication specialist and a human rights activist. Born in Peru, has been a globetrotter for a while. She is the founder of MujeresMundi.
She is currently living in Belgium. She speaks Spanish, English, French, Italian and some Persian.
Ana Quijano
Chief Editor - Events Support
Ana Quijano is a journalist and a specialist in educational coaching. She worked in Argentina, Peru, Spain and Belgium. She is also director of Alter-Nos, a communication consulting company in Brussels. She speaks Spanish and French.
Pamela Morales
Communication Assistant
Pamela used to work as a French teacher in Guatemala her homeland. After 4 years of traveling and living in countries like Singapore, France and Belgium. She is a communication specialist and an avid writer.
Mariana Lara
Research Collaborator
Ágata Cáceres Sztorc
Research Collaborator
Karishma Ausan
Communication and Events Officer - Fellow Research
Karishma is specialised in communication and development cooperation.
She believes that empowerment of women is crucial for development.
She studied International Public Administration in the Netherlands.
She has lived in Suriname, the Netherlands, France, and Belgium.
She speaks Dutch, Hindi, English, and French.
Ágata is a Peruvian –Polish latinamericanist. She studied journalism, political sciences and Latin American studies in Spain and Poland. She supports human rights and believes in gender equality. Currently, she works at a Polish University as a professor in Latin American Studies and is also collaborating in a local NGO focus on women´s rights. She speaks Spanish, Polish, English and some German. She enyojs cinematography and literature as much as travelling and discovering new cultures.
Kirthi Jayakumar
Research Collaborator
Kirthi is a lawyer, specialized in Public International Law and Human Rights. A graduate of the School of Excellence in Law, Chennai, she has diversified into Research and Writing in Public International Law, Arbitration and Human Rights. She works in the field of Development, Gender and Peace & Conflict Studies. She is the founder of The Red Elephant Foundation
Wenjuan Zhao
Social Media Coordinator - English
Wenjuan Zhao is a business major graduate with a heart for visual image, words and melody. She has a B.S. degree in Economics and a M.S. degree in Accounting. After teaching 7 years at universities at Shanghai, China, she came to the U.S. and got an MBA degree in Finance. Besides formal education, Wenjuan also studied with Oxford Continuing Education Department in online courses of Literature, Visual Arts, Creative Writing, and Architecture and other learning institutes in Sculpture, Photography and Fashion Design. An egalitarian, Wenjuan deeply believes in equality between men and women, people of different races and human and nature.Wenjuan Zhao currently lives in New York, the United States.
