Britta Lejon is PSI's President. She was elected at PSI’s World Congress in October 2023. She has served as the President of The Union of Civil Servants (ST) in Sweden from 2012 to present, advocating for the rights and well-being of civil servants. She was also president of the National and European Administration Committee of the European region of PSI, EPSU, from 2015 to 2019.

Annie has been in public service for most of her life, having served in various positions in the National Mower and Youth Council, Technical Education and Skills Development Authority, Quezon City University and the House of Representatives. Deeply committed to advancing public sector unionism. She has been organizing and educating government employees all over the Philippines since 1987. She is currently the president of the Public Services Labor Independent Confederation (PSLINK), a national umbrella federation of government workers and their unions and associations representing more than 114000 rank and file employees. Since 2002, she has also been serving as Vice President for Asia Pacific of Public Services International (PSI). She has been appointed by the Philippine president to sit as one of the labor representatives in the National Tripartite Industrial Peace Council and has also been elected as the public sector union representative in the Steering Committee of the Open Government Partnership – Philippines. On April 28,2005 She is being appointed by President Marcos as labor sector representative to the Trabaho Para Sa Bayan Inter Agency Council. Annie has also served as official delegate and resource speaker in different regional and international conferences such as the Asian Development Bank Annual Governors’ Meeting, Global Forum on Migration and Development and the UN Conference on Reinventing Governance and Building Confidence on Government-Implementing the UN Anti-Corruption Convention (UNCAC). Widely recognized as an advocate of gender equality, she has led campaigns on Pay Equity, Occupational Safety and Health, Expanded Maternity Leave Law, ratification and implementation of ILO Convention 190 on the Elimination of Violence and Harassment in the World of Work including Gender-Based Violence and Harassment and many other advocacies for women’s rights and empowerment. She holds a Doctorate degree in Philosophy from the Lyceum of the Philippines University and is also a licensed Guidance Counselor.

Ishigami-san has started working at the Furano City Hall, Hokkaido and has joined Jichiro immediately after his high school graduation. After working as a public servant for 26 years, he became a full-time union official as a member of Jichiro's Central Executive Committee. Since September 2023, he has been the President of Jichiro, (All Japan Prefectural and Municipal Workers Union). He is also the Acting President of JTUC-Rengo, the National Centre of trade unions in Japan.    

Daniel Bertossa is PSI's General Secretary. He was elected at PSI’s World Congress in October 2023.Danny previously served as PSI’s Assistant General Secretary. He has been with PSI for over ten years, managing policy, advocacy and governance with a focus on PSI's economic policy work in trade, tax, debt and the future of quality public services. He is a strong voice for workers in the global media, contributing union perspectives for outlets such as Le Monde, The Guardian, Poder360, EuroNews, Equal Times, The Hindu, and the International Centre for Trade Union Rights Journal. Danny is a co-chair of the steering committee of the Independent Commission on Reform of International Corporate Tax (ICRICT), member of the Global Reporting Initiatives (GRI) tax Technical Committee, member of the Centre for Research on Employment and Work (CREW) advisory board at the University of Greenwich and member of the committee of the Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research (CICTAR).

Kate Lappin is Public Services International (PSI) Regional Secretary for the Asia & Pacific region

She has been working as a Female Community Health Worker (FCHW) in Nepal since 1996. She joined the union in 2009 and is currently serving as the President of Nepal Health Volunteer Association (NEVA), one of PSI’s affiliates. She is actively engaged in organizing and advocating for the rights and issues of FCHWs in Nepal.

Kimura-san started working at the Osaka City Hall, and joined Jichiro immediately after her high school graduation. After serving as the General Secretary at Jichiro's Osaka Prefectural Headquarters, she has become the Vice President of Jichiro's Central Executive Committee in 2023. She is currently also the Vice President of JTUC-Rengo, the National Centre of trade unions in Japan.  

Maddy Northam is the Australian Capital Territory Regional Secretary for the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) which represents Commonwealth and Territory public servants. In addition to this, Maddy is the President of Unions ACT which represents over 30,000 union members across Canberra. Maddy is a PSI Executive Board Youth Titular and has used this role to push for greater inclusion of young workers, and the issues that concern them, in global union federations and the ITUC. Maddy lives in Canberra with her wife and twin babies.

Shubham is Youth Secretary of the Delhi State Electricity Workers Union. He is Young Workers Titular for PSI Asia Pacific and Young Workers Titular for PSI Executive Board. By profession Shubham is Electrical Engineer at the Discom Company in Delhi, India.

Sunita Dangol is a Nepalese politician, Newa heritage conservationist, language activist, and media professional. She is currently serving as the Deputy Mayor of Kathmandu Metropolitan City, the capital of Nepal. She is widely recognized for her efforts in preserving Newa culture and promoting inclusive urban development. Her dynamic leadership has made her one of the prominent young political figures in Nepal.

General Secretary of the Bangladesh Students Right Council. Central Coordinator, Anti-discrimination Movement 2024.  In 2018, was organizer of the 2018 quota reform movement. Victim of five attacks in 2018. Joint convener of Bangladesh General Student Rights Council, Dhaka College branch, 2019, while trying to save VP Nurul Haque Nur’s brother at DUCSU, he was seriously injured in an attack by student League, Muktijudwa Mancha and underwent treatment for three months. General Secretary of Bangladesh Student Rights Council Dhaka College branch.

2020, he was victim of police attack on September 19, 2020. 2021, he was imprisoned for 6 months (183 days) for speaking about Indian aggression and Domination and for protesting against the arrival of groceries. Joint Secretary of Bangladesh Student Right Council Central Committee.2022, Arrested while celebrating the 3rd death anniversary of Shaheed Abrar Fahad in 2022 and imprisoned for 2 months. Bangladesh Student Right Council Chittagong Divisional Organizing Secretary. 2023, Abducted from home by DB August 1, 2023. In 2024, General Secretary of Bangladesh Student Right Council Central Committee. He has led the quota reform movement since its inception on June 5, 2024. On July 15, he was injured in an attack by the terrorist organization student League on the VC premises of Dhaka University. At that time, the newspaper reported that the coordinator Nazmul Hasan was unconscious for 22 hours and was undergoing treatment. Later, while leading the movement, he was arrested at 8:30 am on August 5. He was severely tortured at Shahbag Police Station and later taken to the counter-terrorism unit where he was given crossfire. After Sheikh Hasina fled, he was released from crossfire at 5 pm.

Ms. Hee-Sun Choi started working at St. Mary’s Hospital, Catholic University of Korea as a nurse. She joined the union and became the Acting Chairperson at the Union Branch at the hospital and led a 217-day strike in 2002. (She was dismissed after the strike and reinstated in 2004.) After serving at various union leadership positions, she has become the President of KHMU in 2024.

Niña Bañez-Cerdiña is the National Field Director of the Service Employees International Union - Doctors United, the largest and fastest-growing movement of organized physicians in the United States—organizing doctors into the Union to stop corporate healthcare greed. Nina has been a healthcare organizer with SEIU for the past 15 years and has organized healthcare workers in public and private sectors to ensure that workers have dignity and a real voice in their jobs. Nina is a leader in SEIU’s Asian Pacific Islander caucus and serves on the caucus board to help build multi-generational leadership and solidarity in the API community. Growing up in the Philippines and living through devastating typhoons shaped her belief that the fight for labor rights is deeply connected to environmental and immigration justice—and that our movements are strongest when we take on these struggles together united and without borders.Niña Bañez-Cerdiña is the National Field Director of the Service Employees International Union - Doctors United, the largest and fastest-growing movement of organized physicians in the United States—organizing doctors into the Union to stop corporate healthcare greed. Nina has been a healthcare organizer with SEIU for the past 15 years and has organized healthcare workers in public and private sectors to ensure that workers have dignity and a real voice in their jobs. Nina is a leader in SEIU’s Asian Pacific Islander caucus and serves on the caucus board to help build multi-generational leadership and solidarity in the API community. Growing up in the Philippines and living through devastating typhoons shaped her belief that the fight for labor rights is deeply connected to environmental and immigration justice—and that our movements are strongest when we take on these struggles together united and without borders.

Service Employees International Union

The Service Employees International Union is a Union in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico of nearly 2 million diverse members in Healthcare, Public Services and Property Services who believes in and fights for a vision of a just society where all workers are valued and all people respected – no matter where they come from – where all families can thrive; and where we leave a better and more equitable world for generations to come.

Dr Abhay Shukla is a public health physician, working on community and public health issues in Maharashtra since last three decades. He is Senior scientist at SATHI (Support for Advocacy and Training to Health Initiatives), while having membership of the Core group on Health of National Human Rights Commission. He is national co-convenor of Jan Swasthya Abhiyan, and is a Global steering committee member of the People’s Health Movement.

Abhay has been centrally involved in developing the framework of rights-based community monitoring and planning of health services in India. He has mentored this process for public health system accountability across Maharashtra since 2007 which now covers over a thousand villages, helping people to reclaim and majorly improve health service delivery. He has also mentored the development of Community Action for Nutrition (CAN) processes since 2017, which have led to significant positive impacts and substantially reduced malnutrition in over 400 villages in tribal areas across Maharashtra.

Abhay led the drafting of the national ‘Patients’ Rights Charter’, adopted by NHRC and the Union Health Ministry. He has authored / co-authored various publications on the health system in India, including the popular book ‘Dissenting Diagnosis’ (published by Penguin) which exposes malpractices in the private medical sector in India. He has co-edited / authored the books ‘Review of Health care in India’, ‘Report on Health inequities in Maharashtra’ and ‘Health system in India – crisis and alternatives’. He is one of the founders of the national network, Alliance of Doctors for Ethical Healthcare.

Abhay along with SATHI co-authors have recently completed a study on the Employees’ State Insurance Scheme (ESIS) in Maharashtra, which critically analyses this major programme for health and social security of workers. Along with SATHI colleagues he is currently completing a national study on Rights of frontline doctors in public hospitals, which is supported by National Human Rights Commission of India. He has recently co-authored along with researcher colleagues from India, two papers for UNU-IIGH – one on Corporatisation of private healthcare in India promoted by globalised investments, and another on Effects of corporatisation on clinical practice in Private healthcare institutions.

He led a team which facilitated large scale audit of private hospital bills of COVID patients, leading to unprecedented refund of overcharged amounts by private hospitals to patients. He is Global Convenor of the international coalition COPASAH (Community of Practice for Accountability and Social Action on Health) and represents the Indian region in the People’s Health Movement global steering committee. He is actively involved in campaigns for right to healthcare, accountability of public health services, resistance to healthcare privatisation and commercialisation, social regulation of private healthcare, rights of frontline health workers, and advocating for a system of Universal Health Care.

Ramya Kannan has been a journalist with The Hindu for 28 years now. Throughout the period, she has been employed at The Hindu, India's national newspaper, in various capacities, and now has come to straddle two positions - health editor and head of the Tamil Nadu and Puducherry bureaus. She has a deep experience in health and development reporting and prides herself on being a true Chennaiite and a resident of Tamil Nadu, with involvement in various forms of reporting, including long form articles. More recently, she has curated ebooks on health topic and one coffee table book on the Chennai Corporation. She believes in interventions, through the media, particularly those that elevate the lives of disadvantaged people.

Irma Rahmawati is a member of the National Council of the PLN Workers Union (SP PLN), serving under the Industrial Relations Department. She has been actively involved in the union since she first joined PLN (the State-Owned Electricity Enterprise) in 2015, where she quickly became a representative of young workers. In 2023, during the PSI Congress, she was elected as the Substitute Young Workers’ Representative for Asia-Pacific on the PSI Executive Board (PSI EB). Professionally, Irma holds a degree in electrical engineering and currently works as a Senior Technician for Distribution Maintenance at the Customer Service Implementation Unit (UP3) of PLN Bintaro, South Jakarta.

Duane Leo National Secretary New Public Service Association Te Pūkenga Here Tikanga Mahi (PSA)
"Noa'ia e mauri" "(Hello and greetings)
I am a New Zealand born Pacific Islander who has strong family and community links to the Pacific region.

My service to working people includes, as an organiser at the Service and Food Workers Union (now E tū) and over 22 years with the PSA holding a number of positions.

Public and community service have been at the centre of my working life.

The PSA is the largest trade union in New Zealand with over 95,000 members. We are a democratic and bicultural organisation representing members in the public service, the wider state sector (including Te Whatu Ora, crown research institutes and other crown entities), state owned enterprises, local government, tertiary education institutions and non-governmental organisations working in the health, social services, and community sectors.

We represent members to negotiate their terms of employment collectively, to have a voice within their workplace and to have an independent public voice on the quality of public and community services and how they’re delivered.

I am also the current Public Service International (PSI) Oceania titular.

Emeritus Prof. Anisuzzaman Chowdhury is Special Assistant to the Hounarble Chief Advisor (Ministry of Finance), Government of Bangladesh. He also worked at United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN-ESCAP) in Bangkok as Director of Macroeconomic Policy and Development Division (July 2012-Aug. 2014) and Director of Statistics Division (Sept. 2014-May 2015). Previously, he was Professor of Economics at the University of Western Sydney (2001-2012) and taught also at the Universities of Singapore (1983-87), New England (Australia, 1987-92) and Manitoba (Canada, 1978-83). He was the founding managing editor of the Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy (1995-2008), where he remains on its editorial board as a co-editor. He has published widely on East and Southeast Asia, and on macro-development, labour market, and income distribution issues. He holds a PhD from the University of Manitoba (1983) and honours and master’s degrees from Jahangirnagar University of Bangladesh (1976 and 1978)

Raheela Tabasum is a revolutionary Pakistani trade unionist. She is the current General Secretary of the Pakistan Community Health Workers Federation (PCHWF), which is the first and largest organization for community health workers in all of Pakistan.

In 2007, she started her journey by becoming a Lady Health Supervisor for the Punjab Health Department on a temporary basis. In addition to her public health work, she also worked to organize Lady Health Workers, supervisors, and polio workers. She started in her native area of Sheikhupura and slowly spread her activities to other districts in Punjab.

She was one of the founding members of the Punjab Lady Health Workers Union (PLHWU), which is affiliated with Public Services International (PSI). She helped make the voices of community health workers stronger. In 2012, after years of fighting with community health workers around the country, she got a permanent job, which she still helps others get.

Her dedication and tireless activism earned her the position of Office Secretary of PLHWU in 2018, followed by her election as Deputy General Secretary in 2022. She then expanded her organizing beyond Punjab, building alliances and mobilizing CHWs in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. In 2024, Rahila made history by being elected the first General Secretary of PCHWF by community health workers from across the country. This started a new age of unity and representation. She is still General Secretary of national initiatives to defend the rights, fair pay, and social safety of Pakistan's community health workers.

Kosaka-san previsouly served as Vice President of the Kure-City Employees' Labor Union's and as the Director of the Site-Workers Council at Jichiro's Headquarters, and he is currently the General Secretary of Jichiro Hiroshima Prefectural Headquarters. In his position, he works to improve wages and working conditions for public service workers in Hiroshima Prefecture and establish high-quality public services.

Michael Whaites is the Assistant General Secretary of the NSW Nurses and Midwives’ Association (NSWNMA) - the NSWNMA is the union that represents over 81,000 nurses, midwives and carers both industrially and professionally in the state of NSW. He is also Branch Assistant Secretary of the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation NSW Branch. 

Michael is a Registered Nurse of 33 years and Midwife of 30 years. He was an active workplace delegate at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, where he worked as a Clinical Midwifery Educator, prior to commencing at the NSWNMA in 2005.

Michael has worked as an Organiser, Trade Union Educator, Lead Organiser and Manager at the Association, before being appointed Assistant General Secretary in 2022.

Between 2015 and 2019 Michael was also the Oceania Sub-regional Secretary for the global union federation, Public Services International. During this time Michael coordinated a national inquiry into privatisation, helped establish the Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research (CICTAR), which exposed the financial practices of aged care providers and provided

He is General Secretary of the Indian National Municipal & Local Bodies Workers Federation (INTUC). Secretary of All India INTUC
General Secretary, INTUC, Telangana & Andhra Pradesh and Working President, Municipal Sahakar Mazdoor Union (INTUC).

Began career in 2005 by organizing Contract & Outsourcing Workers of Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC). Further to Parmanent Employees of GHMC, Now organizing and dealing with Municipal & Local Bodies Employees and Workers, ASHA'S, Anganwadi's and other Scheme Workers.

Represented India in multiple Trade Union Conferences globally.

Yi-Ting Yeh is a Family Medicine Attending Physician and Deputy Director at Ditmanson Medical Foundation Chia-Yi Christian Hospital. With a Master’s in Public Health from Yang-Ming University, her work focuses on home medical care, palliative care, and long-term care service integration, aiming to enhance public awareness of caregiving value through interdisciplinary collaboration. Yi-Ting is also active in labor and social movements. She serves as an Asia-Pacific member of the PSI LGBT+ Interim Steering Committee, a member representative of Ditmanson Healthcare Foundation Affiliated Enterprises Union (CYCHCU), a board member of the Awakening Foundation, and a director of the Taipei Physicians’ Union, advocating for labor rights, gender equality, and diversity in healthcare.

Sunil Babu Pant (Anaagarik Kassyapa) is a Nepali filmmaker, former Buddhist monk, and Asia’s first openly gay Member of Parliament (2008–2012). He founded the Blue Diamond Society in 2001 to advance LGBTIQ+ rights in Nepal. A Tantra healing meditation teacher and heritage guide, he explores Nepal’s matriarchal traditions, goddesses, and sacred sites. Sunil also works on the rights of GSM (Gender and Sexual Minority) migrants and promotes inclusive labor practices through trade union engagement. 

He is Cultural Emissary for Inclusive (Pink/Rainbow/LGBT+) Tourism in Nepal; Executive Director,  Mayako Pahichan Nepal, Mayakopahichan.com Film Maker,  Meditation Guide,  First openly gay member of Parliament in Asia from Nepal.  Founder of Blue Diamond society, first LGBTIQ rights organisation in Nepal. He was former Buddhist Monk, his spiritual name is Anaagarik Kashyap.

Sean Sweeney, Ph.D., is the Director of the International Program on Labor, Climate & Environment at the School of Labor and Urban Studies, City University of New York. He also coordinates Trade Unions for Energy Democracy (TUED) a global network of 130 unions from 43 countries. TUED advocates for a “public pathway” approach to energy transition, climate protection, and combating energy poverty.

SungHee Oh is the Director of International Affairs of the Korean Public Service and Transport Workers' Union (KPTU). Before joining the KPTU, she worked for the Korean Government Employees' Union (KGEU) for about 10 years and was the Secretary for Human Rights and Solidarity of the Korean Council for Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery by Japan for more than 3 years. Her expertise and interests lie in quality public services, labour rights, women's rights and past human rights violations committed by the state.

Efrida Gusti Handayani is the Head of the Industrial Relations & Advocacy Division of the Persatuan Pegawai PT PLN Indonesia Power (PP-IP) from 2023 until now. She is Senior Officer for Human Resources Planning and Evaluation, Saguling (West Jawa) Hydroelectric Power Plant Business Unit.

Budi Setianto is the General Treasurer of the PT PLN PERSERO Workers Union (SP PLN), a trade union organization at PLN, a state-owned electricity company with more than 28,000 members, which rejects all forms of privatization of the electricity sector in Indonesia and with the support of Public Services Internasional (PSI) consistently defends the role and ownership of the state over the electricity sector for the greatest prosperity of the people as mandated by the constitution.

He is also the Deputy Treasurer of the National Welfare Movement (GEKANAS), an alliance of 18 national-level trade union federations, academics, researchers and advocates, which aims to actively monitor, review and provide input on draft laws, especially those related to labor and social welfare.

MD. Mazibor Rahman is General Secretary Paschimanchal Biddyut Bitaran Sramik Karmachari Union-PBBSKU and Secretary of PSI NCC Bangladesh. 

He established a union in Barisal Gas Turbine Power Station in Barisal district of Bangladesh in 1986. He was elected as the Education and Research Secretary of the Central Executive Committee of Bangladesh National Electricity Workers' Union and conducts all the education and research activities of the union.

He is a lifetime member of the Bangladesh Institute of Labor Studies-Bills and a trainer on labor law. According to the power sector reform program of Bangladesh, various companies were formed on electricity generation, transmission and distribution systems of the country. He established a trade union for the employees of newly formed company name West Zone Power Distribution Company which is responsible for supply electricity to the southwestern region of the country. The name of the union is Paschimanchal Biddyut Bitaran Sramik Karmachari Union-PBBSKU. He served as the founding general secretary. He was re -elected as the General Secretary on February 16, 2025, of this union.

The Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh has now appointed Md. Mozibor Rahman as a member of the Khulna Divisional Labor Court.

He is also the join secretary of the Bangladesh National Electricity Workers Federation comprising all the power sector workers' unions in the country. He has been the secretary of the PSI NCC for Bangladesh since 2021.

Christopher Bautista is the co-founder of KAMAGGFI an affiliate of PSI Philippines. He is also the President of his local union (the Sweepstakes Employees Union) and serving as the Director for Finance of the National Public Workers Congress (PUBLIK). He is an elected Sectoral Representative to the Public Sector Labor-Management Council(PSLMC) and currently in a holdover capacity pending the election of his replacement

Abdul Latif Nizamani is president of All Pakistan WAPDA Hydro Electric Workers Union and working continuously since last 04 decades for the right of the workers and to unite the workers to fight for their rights as one voice of the working class in Pakistan and also to work with other workers in South Asia.

He has participated in all “referendums” at National Level in Pakistan and succeeded in all Six Constitution tenures with thumping majority and he has taken part in Anti- Privatization movements of “Electricity” in Pakistan and defeated Government of Pakistan for two times.

He has participated in National and International Meetings in Pakistan and out of Pakistan and represented working class in Pakistan.
He has been removed from service twice by the management of WAPDA on account of participation in Trade Union activities and other penalties were imposed.

Ko Tūwatawata tōku maunga Ko Whirinaki tōku awa
Ko Waikotikoti me Murumurunga tōku marae Ko Ngati Tuahiwi tōku hapū
Ko Ngati Whare, Ngai Tuhoe me Ngati Kahungungu nga Iwi
Ko Matātua te Waka
Ko Virgil Iraia tōku ingoa.
Ko au te Tumuaki mo Te Pūkenga Here Tikanga Mahi. He Kaimahi au ki Te Whatu Ora.
Nui te aroha, tēna koutou katoa.

My name is Virgil Iraia, my lineage connects me to the indigenous tribes of Ngati Whare, Ngai Tuhoe and Ngati Kahungungu, which are remote isolated/urban areas in the heart of the North Island of Aotearoa New Zealand.
I am the President of Aotearoa New Zealand largest union the Public Service Association Te Pūkenga Here Tikanga Mahi, commonly known as the NZPSA. I have the responsibility of representing and advocating the collective voice of NZPSA in local, regional, national and international forums.

I am one of seven children to my parents Lillian and David, a doting uncle to my niece and five nephews and on top of that I’m a health worker. Advocacy and Representation for the collective has always a core part of who I am.
He aha te mea nui o tenei ao? He tangata! He tangata, He tangata!

What is the most important thing in the world? It is the people, it is the people, it is the people

...’anō te ātaahua o te nohotahitanga a nga teina me nga tuakana i raro i te whakaaro kotahi.’

…’such is the power of whanaungatanga, the strength in unity and working together to achieve things in common.’

Ko Whakapunake tōku maunga Ko Wairoa tōku awa
Ko Takitimu tōku marae

Ko Ngāi Te Apatu tōku hapū

Ko Ngāti Kahungunu ki Te Wairoa, Ngāti Tuwahretoa me Ngāti Ruanui ōku iwi Ko Joanna Houston tōku ingoa.
He uri ahau nō ngā waka Ko Te Arawa, Takitimu me Aotea.

He Tumuaki Tuarua Māori mo te Te Pūkenga Here Tikanga Mahi me Tuakana o Te Runanga o Nga Toa Awhina o Te Pukenga Here Tikanga Mahi tōku mahi.

Tēnei te mihi ki a koutou katoa

My name is Joanna Houston, and I whakapapa to the tribes Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Tuwharetoa and Ngāti Ruanui in Aotearoa New Zealand. I am the Vice President Māori of Te Pukenga Tikanga Mahi| The Public Services Association New Zealand, and the Tuakana (Convenor) of Te Rūnanga o Ngā Toa Awhina of the PSA, representing our Māori members who are tāngata whenua (indigenous to Aotearoa New Zealand).

I am a mum to five adult children and have been happily married for 25 years. Advocating for the indigenous rights of Māori under Te Tiriti o Waitangi is a core focus of my working life as a public servant in New Zealand.

At a time in our history, when our environment is demanding our attention and neoliberalism seeks to divide us, all we have, is our unity. And that is more than enough for us to realise a prosperous future.

Jo currently works in at the National Indigenous Australians Agency in their Parramatta office.   She is a proud Murawari/Ngemba woman whose family comes from Brewarrina in Northwest NSW.  Jo started her public service career at the NSW Aboriginal Lands Trust in the late 1970’s. Since then, Jo has worked for the lead Agency for Indigenous Affairs at the Australian Government level and dedicated her life to the advancement of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people’s rights whether that be through her involvement in the workplace or her activities in the Union Movement.  

Jo is a Rank-and-File member, delegate and an elected honorary Official of the CPSU.  Jo is a part of the CPSU NATIC - which is an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander network within the CPSU  

Jo currently sits on the CPSU Governing Council, is Section Secretary of the Indigenous Peoples Section of the CPSU, is Chair of the ACTU Indigenous Committee and a member of the ACTU Executive.  Jo is Board member of ANTaR, a past Board member of her local Aboriginal Land Council and is actively involved in her local Aboriginal community.   

Manoranjan Pegu is currently the Country Program Director, Solidarity Center Sri Lanka Office. He has over 15 years of experience working with the global labour movement. He has a PhD in Sociology and writes extensively on issues of labour, tribes and nationalism. His work has appeared in The Caravan, The Hindu, The Quint, Outlook, Scroll, The Wire, and Newslaundry, among others. His forthcoming co-authored book, Tribal Question and Assamese Identity: Poetics and Politics of Indigeneity, is a novel attempt to critically situate the figure of the tribal to analyse identity, language/nationalism and caste question in contemporary Assam.

Shankar Limbu is a prominent Nepali lawyer and human rights advocate with over 25 years of experience defending the rights of Indigenous Peoples and local communities. Currently Vice-Chair of LAHURNIP and advisor to several national and international bodies, he has led landmark legal victories in Nepal’s Supreme Court, securing Indigenous peoples’ rights to land, housing, and representation. A former ILO Pro-169 Fellow and visiting scholar at Columbia University, Mr. Limbu has also worked globally to hold financial institutions accountable for rights violations. His extensive contributions include legal reform, policy advocacy, and international human rights engagement, aligned with ILO Convention 169 and UNDRIP.

Dr. Christina J. Colclough is a renowned thought leader in the future of work and the politics of digital technology. As the founder of The Why Not Lab, she champions the protection of human rights, freedoms, and autonomy in the digital age. With a strong background in labor market research and leadership within the global labor movement, she has been instrumental in shaping policies and strategies that advocate for workers’ voices and public services. Notably, she authored the union movement’s first principles on Workers’ Data Rights and the Ethics of AI, establishing herself as a key figure in ethical digital transformation.Christina is also a highly sought-after speaker and trainer, having delivered over 400 speeches and workshops in just three years. Her dedication to improving workers’ digital rights has earned her a place in the Hall of Fame of the world’s most brilliant women in AI Ethics. She holds several trusted positions, including Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in the UK, member of UNESCO’s #Women4EthicalAI Platform, the OECD One AI Expert Group, and affiliation with FAOS at Copenhagen University. In 2021, she also served on the Steering Committee of the Global Partnership on AI, further solidifying her influence in shaping ethical digital policies worldwide.

Fathimath Zimna is the Executive Board Member for South Asia at Public Services International and the co-founder and elected General Secretary of the Maldives Health Professionals Union (MHPU). She has been a driving force behind MHPU’s strategic planning and policy development and has played a central role in advancing labor legislation and policy reforms in the Maldives. As a representative on the Minimum Wage Board, she was instrumental in securing the country’s first minimum wage in the year 2022 and led efforts to establish a new public sector pay framework for healthcare workers in 2023. Globally, she has been a vocal advocate for workers’ rights, focusing on issues including climate justice, gender equality, labor migration, and equitable access to quality public services. She holds a Master of Public Administration and was a recipient of the first PSIRU Summer School program. She has been a speaker and moderator in various national and international sessions on labor rights, occupational safety and health, quality public services and social justice.

Victor G. Chiong is the President Emeritus & Secretary-General of the Alliance of Government Workers in the Water Sector (AGWWAS), a federation of public sector labor unions in the local water districts (LWDs). With 40 years of experience as a trade unionist, he has worked alongside the executive board of the national federation.

In September 2019, he conferred a Juris Doctor (JD) from his Alma Mater. He specializes in labor education, watershed management, and educating other water district employees on their democratic rights, including the right to organize, collective negotiation, and leadership, as well as the Human Rights to Water and Sanitation. His advocacy includes trade union rights, pro-poor projects, consumer welfare, promoting family well-being, and protection of watershed areas.

His leadership roles include

• Chairman, Board of the Directors, Banawan Consumers Cooperative, July 2023 to present.
• Project Coordinator of Public Services International (PSI) Southeast Asia Region on the Philippines-Indonesia Water Project, March 2020 to December 31, 2022.
• Presidential Appointee as a Member of the Board of Administrators, National Electrification Administration (NEA), Head Office, Quezon City, Philippines, May 2015 to May 2017.
• Consultant/Lecturer with NEA Administrator Francisco G. Silva of the National Solidarity of Electric Cooperatives Labor Unions, July 1992 to December 31, 2018.
• Convenor of the Steering Committee of the International Labor Organization (ILO) Social Dialogue in the Philippine Water Utility Sector in October 2009.

Over the years, he has participated in various international conventions, conferences, and seminars, advocating for several initiatives and serving his country and people. He is known as a positive and tireless force in the workplace, inspiring others to work hard and succeed. His daily inspiration comes from his wife, children, grandsons, and granddaughters.

Publications

Chiong, V.G., A.A. Almeria, B.B. Dargantes and H.P. Dargantes. 2013. Five Philippine Water Districts Say NO to the Asian Development Bank.

Dargantes, B.B., Chiong, V.G, H. Dargantes and E. Mira. 2014. Quasi-public: water districts in the Philippines. In McDonald, D.A. and G. Ruiters (eds.) Rethinking Corporatization and Public Services in the Global South. Zed Books. New York. pp.164-184.

Dargantes, B.B. Chiong, V.G., H.P. Dargantes y E.B. Mira. 2015. Cuasi público: distritos de agua en Filipinas. En McDonald, D.A. Servicios públicos en el Sur Global: Mirada crítica a nuevas formas de gestión. Clave Intelectual, S.L. Madrid. pp. 221-248.

Dargantes, B.B., V.G. Chiong, J.O. Quitorio, A.A.N. Perez, A.N. Villalon. Public bank–public water collaboration in the Philippines. What potential for scaling up?. In T. Marois, D.A. McDonald, & S. Spronk (eds). Public Banks and Public Water in the Global South. Routledge. London. p.p. 217-246.

Asad Ur Rehman Aasi is a dedicated trade unionist and advocate for workers' rights in Pakistan. He has been organizing workers and fighting against the privatization of public services for more than 13 years. He is the General Secretary of the Sanitary Workers Federation Punjab and the Vice president of the Public Sector Employees Federation of Pakistan (PSEFP) and of the Deputy General Secretary Pakistan Workers Federation (PWF). These organizations represent thousands of public sector and informal workers in Pakistan.

Asad has played a key role in testing the effects of privatization in Pakistan’s municipal and public health sectors. He led national efforts to show how outsourcing affects job security, working conditions, and public responsibility, especially in the health and sanitation sectors.

He was a primary organizer of the Joint Protest of Community Health and Polio Workers, which brought together hundreds of female workers from several provinces to demand recognition, rights, and protection from the instability caused by privatization.

Through his website, workersactivism.com, to document and promote grassroots initiatives, union fights, and the problems workers in both the formal and informal economies face.

Sharan KC is the Program Manager of the Decent Work Program at Union Aid Abroad – APHEDA, where he leads the Partnership for Decent Work in the Indo-Pacific (PDWIP). Since joining APHEDA in 2002, he has held a range of leadership roles, including Project Officer for Timor Leste, Indonesia, and the Philippines; Program Manager for the Mekong Region; International Program Manager; and Co-Executive Officer.

With more than two decades of experience in international trade union solidarity, Sharan also worked for six years with the Finnish trade union solidarity organisation, where he helped establish the South Asia Trade Union Development Program.

Originally from Nepal and now based in Sydney, he leads APHEDA’s work across the Indo-Pacific, supporting trade union partners to advance decent work, climate justice, and democratic rights—including in the Pacific.

Angus McFarland is Secretary, Australian Services Union NSW / ACT Branch. The ASU NSW / ACT Branch represents public sector water and transport workers, and workers in government-funded NGO community and disability services. In 2023 the ASU won historic protection for public water workers, with the public water utility (Sydney Water) placed in the state constitution to protect it in public hands. Learn about the campaign and struggle to Save Sydney Water and keep water in public hands in Sydney after a decade long struggle.

Daria Cibrario is Senior Policy Officer in charge of the Local and Regional Government (LRG) sector, Occupational Health and Safety (OSH) and global research coordination at PSI.

Dr Fiona Macdonald is Policy Director, Industrial and Social with the Centre for Future Work. Her PhD in Political Science is from the University of Queensland. She also holds a Master of Social Science. Previously Fiona worked as an industrial relations academic at RMIT University in Melbourne and at the University of South Australia and she is currently an Adjunct Principal Research Fellow in the College of Business and Law at RMIT. She has a background in research in the community and vocational education and training sectors and has worked with trade unions over many years. Fiona has written extensively on women, work and industrial relations, including on social care employment, insecure work, wage theft, gig work and contracting, equal pay, collective bargaining and low-paid workers. In 2021, her book Individualising Risk: Paid Care Work in the New Gig Economy was published by Palgrave Macmillan.

Paul is from Canberra, Australia and has worked for the Commonwealth Government for over 28 years. He has extensive experience across several key portfolios including Finance, Industrial Relations, and Attorney-General’s. Paul has worked on the development of key Commonwealth legislation, provided policy advice to Senior Officials, and administered multi-million-dollar grant programs. As a committed unionist, Paul is a member of the Community & Public Sector Union and serves as a workplace Delegate and Section Councillor where he has successfully led initiatives to improve workplace conditions and advocate for employee rights.

Outside of work, Paul is the Vice President of Physical Disability Australia, the national peak body representing people living with physical disability. In his late twenties, Paul was diagnosed with ankylosing spondylitis, a condition which has led to multiple joint replacements. The experience of developing disability highlighted the difficulties that many people with disability have in finding and maintaining work which drives Paul’s particular interest in disability employment.

Paul holds a Masters Degree from the University of New South Wales and was an Honorary Associate in the Centre for Disability Research and Policy at The University of Sydney between 2017-2024.

Sharmila Neupane, a 35-year-old dedicated and passionate community health worker, has been serving as a Female Community Health Worker (FCHW) in Nepal since 2020. Beyond her heath work role, Sharmila is also an active union leader and organiser affiliated with HEVON (Health Volunteers Organisation of Nepal), one of the key trade union affiliates of Public Services International (PSI) in Nepal. Her involvement with HEVON reflects her deep-rooted dedication to promoting the rights and recognition of Female community health workers.

Raden Annisa Dzikri Nur Hidayah (Annisa), working as an Environment Staff at Angkasa Pura Indonesia (Airport Operator in Indonesia). Active as a member of Serikat Pekerja Angkasa Pura Indonesia since the first year in the company, was chosen as an administrator to be focus for Empowerment of Young Workers. Also interested in Environment Issues, Sustainability, Climate Change, Equality, Violence and Harassment in the world of work.

Chao Cabatingan is the Regional Program Manager for the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) Competence Center on the Future of Work and Social Democracy in Asia-Pacific. He works closely with trade unions, civil society, and policy actors to advance labor rights and inclusive development across the region. Chao also expresses his personal thoughts on social justice and political issues as contribution for the Opinion section of Rappler, a leading Philippine-based news platform known for its investigative journalism.

Mr Pong-Sul Ahn joined the ILO Multidisciplinary Team in New Delhi in 2002 as a Workers’ Activities Specialist, responsible for South Asia. Then he moved to the ILO Decent Work Team in Bangkok, covering Southeast Asia. Since 2015, Mr Ahn has been serving as the Regional Specialist on Workers' Activities at the ILO Regional Office in Bangkok. He earned a Ph.D at University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK. He has contributed to several publications on topics including trade unionism, migration, minimum wages, organizing, and productivity. 

She is community health worker, and one of young leader of the Mumbai Mahanagar Karmachari Mahasangh (MMKM)

Epidemiologist with over 15 years of experience in health policy and public health research, spanning areas including social determinants of health with a gender equality and intersectionality focus, human resources for health (HRH), non-communicable diseases, and sexual and reproductive health and rights. Currently Research Lead for the Gender Equality and Intersectionality work package at UNU-IIGH. Extensive experience on gender equality and the health workforce in LMICs including, gendered analysis of community health worker policies and programmes in Niger, Mozambique and Zambia feeding into the Community Health Roadmap; led research for the Triple Impact of Nursing (2016) report and a report launched at World Innovation Summit for Health (2018) on Nursing and Midwifery: The key to the rapid and cost-effective expansion of high-quality universal health coverage). The Triple Impact of Nursing report subsequently led to a major global campaign Nursing Now which, amongst other things, secured the designation by the WHO of 2020 as the Year of the Nurse and Midwife.

She is the General Secretary of the Fiji Public Service Association (FPSA) and a committed advocate for worker’s rights and gender equality. She currently serves as the PSI Executive Board Titular Substitute for the Oceania Sub-Region and PSI World Women’s Committee. Judith has been instrumental in advancing fair labour standards, fostering solidarity among unions, and advancing labour standards, fostering solidarity amongst unions and promoting inclusive policies that strengthen and empower communities

Edward has worked in union campaigns, research and strategy for more than a decade, both in New Zealand (for Workers’ First Union) and across the Asia-Pacific region with the Building and Wood Workers’ International. He began working at CICTAR last year, and is passionate about using corporate and tax data to support workers’ struggles, and strengthen the movement for a just transition.

Baba Aye is the PSI Health and Social Sector Officer. He has an International Masters in Labour Policies & Globalisation. An activist of over three decades, he fights for a better world where development brightens the lives of the many and not just the 1%.

Baba has published book chapters, working papers and journal articles on: health and social care, industrial relations, development economics, migration, workers' education, identity politics, women's liberation, precarity and globalisation. He is also the author of Era of Crises & Revolts: Perspectives for Workers and Youth.

Monina Wong has joined the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) in Brussels since 2015.As the Human and Trade Union Rights Asia Pacific Officer, her experiences include international labour standards compliance,advocacies, campaigns and capacity building for trade unions in the Asia Pacific region.

Prior to joining the ITUC, Monina has 15 years’ working experience on labour research, advocacy, campaigns and workers trainings in China. She has worked as the Director of the ITUC Hong Kong Liaison Office, and Director of the Hong Kong-based organization, Labour Action China.

ITUC represents 180 million workers from 171 countries and territories, including 40 affiliates from 28 countries in the Asia Pacific region. The regional officer liaises affiliates and independent trade unions at the international level to monitor the labour laws, trade union rights conditions, and support their national organising programs, wage, migrant workers and labour legislation campaigns.

Every year the ITUC conducts trade union rights survey with affiliates and publishes the Global Rights Index on the performance of countries on freedom of association and collective bargaining, https://www.ituc-csi.org/IMG/pdf/survey_ra_2016_eng.pdf

Julie Perkins is a First Nations unionist from Australia. She is a proud Gumbaynggirr woman who lives and works in the Northen Rivers region of the state of New South Wales. As a child, Julie witnessed her parents not being paid for the worked they performed for wealthy bosses. Australian employers at that time often withheld Aboriginal workers’ wages to embed a sense of powerlessness, inferiority and insignificance among First Nations workers and communities. In response to her parents’ experience of racism, exploitation and wage theft Julie committed her life to being a highly effective First Nations woman activist, working tirelessly with other First Nations women to bring these and other issues into national prominence.

As a young person, Julie spent school holidays as a work experience student with the local Aboriginal Legal Service and later went on to study law. Having completed her law degree Julie took up a role with the NSW Aboriginal Legal Service where she worked for 24 years. Combining lived experience and professional expertise Julie advocated for policy, legal and funding changes needed to stop racism, end violence against Aboriginal women and, to close the health and life expectancy gap between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and non-Indigenous Australians that still exists in Australia today.

Julie has been the recipient of a number of awards in recognition of her achievements in the pursuit of justice for workers and First Nations people. Julie was awarded a National Award for Excellence from the Australian Attorney General (2014), the Fran Teirney Award (2019), Australian Services Union NSW ACT Branch Delegate of the Year (2023), Australian Services Union National Delegate of the Year (2024).

Today, Julie is the CEO of Gurehlgam Corporation, an Aboriginal Community Controlled not-for-profit Organisation that advocates for change and delivers trauma informed community programs that focus on housing, domestic violence and legal advice.

Central to Julie’s activism is her commitment to unionism and her membership of the Australian Services Union (ASU). Julie is the Chairperson of the First Nations ASU Members Network. She is the Vice President of the ASU NSW ACT Branch and sits on the ASU’s Committee of Management and Executive Committee where she continues to be a fierce advocate for workers, and First Nations communities across Australia.

Oka-san joined the Saiki-City Fire Department in Oita Prefecture in 1992. With a career spanning 33 years, he is currently the President of Zenshokyo (National Council of Japanese Firefighters and Ambulance Workers).

He is a trade union activist and currently Secretary of Nepal Civil Service Employees’ Union in Nepal. He is doing M.Phil in International Relations & Diplomacy from Tribhuvan University in Nepal and is working in Office of Prime Minister and Council of Ministers of Nepal as Section Officer. He has over 10 years of experience in the labor movement, advocating for collective bargaining rights, decent work standards, and safe working conditions.

Bhattarai has continuously been involved in formulating Federal Civil Service Bill that guides not only the minimum policy guidelines for the provincial and local level government workers but also to the private sectors labourers.

Yulo A. Lao Jr. serves as the Tax, Trade, and Digitalization Coordinator for Public Services International (PSI) in the Asia Pacific region. With nearly a decade of experience as an activist and advocate for workers and grassroots communities, he is deeply committed to advancing progressive reforms and ensuring access to free, quality public services. Trained as an educator, Yulo firmly believes that building a strong, informed mass movement through education is essential to achieving a just and humane society.

Tom Reddington is Sub-regional Secretary for Oceania; he is also in charge for energy and climate change.

Banaani Deka is Gender Equality Officer. Banaani will cooperate with relevant affiliates to coordinate the implementation of an organising and advocacy strategy to advance the labour rights of Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA) and Anganwadi workers in India.

Catherine Kane is a technical officer on the WHO Health Workforce Policies, Norms and Standards team. Areas of focus include the Global Health and Care Worker Compact, national workforce capacity for essential public health functions and community health workers. Prior to joining WHO, Catherine worked for the Red Cross Movement locally, nationally and internationally, and has held additional policy, humanitarian diplomacy, learning, public health and emergency management positions in national government agencies and health advocacy organizations.She is an advisory board member for the Addis Ababa-based International Institute for Primary Health Care. Catherine holds a Masters in Contemporary Diplomacy from the University of Malta (magna cum laude) and bachelor’s degrees (International Relations and Russian) from the University of Notre Dame (Honors program). A strong believer in lifetime learning, Catherine was a member of the first cohorts of both WHO’s Infodemic Management leadership course and the joint Diplo Foundation-International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies Humanitarian Diplomacy certificate course.

Luke Hutchinson is a proud and experienced Organiser with the United Services Union (USU), based in Newcastle, NSW, Australia. For over 18 years, he has been a passionate advocate for workers in local government and public services, leading campaigns that defend public sector jobs, improve workplace conditions and benefit the community. As coordinator of the USU’s New Gen Committee, Luke empowers young unionists and fosters leadership across the movement. He has had direct involvement in negotiating the NSW Local Government State Award, which covers over 50,000 local government workers, highlighting his commitment to fairness, inclusion and lasting change for working people.

Dr. Hannah Johnston is a professor in the School of Human Resources Management at York University in Toronto. Her research focuses on the digitalization of work and union responses to technological change. She has a PhD in Geography from Queen's University (Canada) and was previously a postdoctoral fellow at Northeastern University in Boston. Internationally, Hannah has for the International Labour Organization and with trade unions and workers' organizations on issues related to collective organizing, algorithmic management, and technological change.

Emma Hardy is a Midwife and Professional Officer at the NSW Nurses and Midwives’ Association. She holds a Bachelor of Communication, majoring in public relations and journalism, and a Bachelor of Midwifery (with distinction) from the University of Newcastle, Australia.

From clinical practice as a Midwife, to her position as Clinical Midwifery Educator, Emma has worked in all facets of maternity care, since 2015. Emma is passionate about the provision of collaborative, woman-centred care for those with high-risk pregnancies and has spent a significant portion of her career working in a high-risk midwifery group practice model.

As a midwife, Emma has also witnessed first-hand the impacts of climate change on the health and wellbeing of women, newborns and families and has utilised understandings derived from her Communications and Midwifery degrees to become an advocate for sustainable health services in NSW. In partnership with a colleague, she currently holds the Climate portfolio at the NSW Nurses and Midwives’ Association, empowering nurses and midwives with knowledge to build resilience against the climate crisis, as well as advocating for policy changes that directly reduce environmental harm in healthcare.

Ropate Daucakacaka Pareti joined the National Fire Authority in 2001. With a career span of 24 years, Pa (as he is often referred to as) is a beacon of hope to many Firefighters. He lost his job back in 2010 after a suspension and termination for voicing his opinion and concerns on staff welfare at the National Fire Authority. This includes promotions, allowances and better working conditions. He resumed duties after sixteen months, winning his case and reinstated asap and no loss of benefits were part of the conditions of his reinstatement.

He rose through the ranks from Operations to his current position as the Procurement Officer of the National Fire Authority. Looking after the procurement arms of the Authority and that is: looking after 21 Fire Stations and Headquarters plus 700+ Staff members. He is the National President of the Fiji Public Service Association.

The Fiji Public Services Association was founded in 1943 with links to the Association of European Civil Servants which was formed back in 1921. FPSA has almost 3000 memberships with a long history of fighting for the rights of workers in the country. FPSA advocates for workers’ rights by promoting decent employment for members, equal opportunity, social justice, retirement security and promoting international labour standards.

Mahi G is a young rapper from rural Maharashtra whose music vividly reflects firsthand experiences of ecological damage and social challenges faced by her community. Through her songs in Marathi and Hindi, she inspires listeners to question environmental policies and personal responsibilities.

Early Life and Perspective

Growing up in a rural setting, Mahi G—whose full name is Madhura Yashwant Ghane—sees the impacts of deforestation, water scarcity, and climate change intimately, often witnessing hardships that urban audiences only hear about. Her music channels the struggles and resilience of indigenous and farming communities, using local dialects for an authentic expression.

Musical Themes

Mahi celebrates Indigenous rights and honors the guardianship of local tribes over forests, emphasising their deep connection to land, water, and wildlife. She addresses climate justice and the effects of heatwaves, highlighting the invisible struggles of farmers and informal workers, especially amidst rising temperatures.

Her work speaks about the rights of forest dwellers, the challenges faced by farmers, and calls out governmental negligence and broken promises. Songs like "Jungle Cha Raja" fuse celebratory tones with urgent calls to action, asking both individuals and policymakers to value sustainable development over reckless urbanisation.

Mahi G motivates her listeners to question authority and reflect on their environmental impact. Her lyrics urge communities to unite for nature and demand justice for those most affected by ecological change. She performs in Marathi and Hindi, making her message accessible and resonant with diverse rural audiences and young people seeking social change.

Learn more about Mahi: https://www.dw.com/en/mahi-g-a-woman-rapping-for-the-environment/video-71350021

Follow her on Instagram: @mahig_55

Check out her YouTube channel: youtube.com/@mahig_

Secretary, Youth Affairs of Pakistan Community Health Workers Federation

Kinza has been working as a volunteer polio worker for the past five years, serving her community. When she faced many workplace issues, she decided to join the union of community health workers (CHWs) in her district.

In 2022, she became an ordinary member of the Punjab Lady Health Workers Union (PLHWU), which is affiliated with PSI, and began organising polio workers. Today, they have more than 700 polio workers in the union, and they are demanding permanent jobs and protection against harassment.

Last year, when the CHWs formed the Pakistan Community Health Workers Federation (PCHWF), she was elected as the Secretary for Youth Affairs. Along with her fellow young polio workers, they are now at the frontline of organising campaigns, including those against privatisation and for climate justice.