Host: VARISTHA NAKORNTHAP, Strategic Partnership Manager, Ashoka Thailand
Varistha is the Strategic Partnership Manager for Ashoka Thailand. She is responsible for knowledge management for partnerships as well as building a stronger ecosystem for social entrepreneurs, particularly women, through collaborations across sectors. Varistha is also an independent facilitator on well-being, design thinking, and sustainability management.
She is the founder of Cuppers Community Thailand - an online community offering safe and shame-free space to discuss sustainable and environmentally friendly menstrual products while debunking taboos and myths associated with menstruation and women's sexuality.
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Keynote Speaker: NAJWA SHIHAB, Founder of Narasi TV
Najwa Shihab is an anchor, journalist, and founder of Narasi TV. She has her own weekly programme, MataNajwa, an influential talk show that takes a look at politics and current issues of the week. Najwa Shihab began her career as a reporter with RCTI and then joined Metro TV in August 2000. During the past 12 years, she has covered the country's major stories and interviewed the “who's who” of Indonesian politics. She has received a number of national and international awards for her work as an anchor and a reporter, including Runner-up/Highly Commended in the Best Current Affairs Presenter category at the Asian Television Awards in 2007, 2009 and 2011. She also received the National Award for Journalistic Contribution to Democracy from the Indonesian Association of Journalists in 2010. Her reporting on the tsunami in Aceh earned her two awards, including a National Journalism Award from the Indonesian Journalists Association in 2005. Najwa Shihab graduated with a degree in Law from the University of Indonesia and earned her Master's degree from the Melbourne Law School.
Opening Message by: NANI ZULMINARNI, Regional Leader, Ashoka Southeast Asia
Nani has been working on women empowerment at the grass root level since 1987, starting as a field worker of The Center for Women’s Resources Development (PPSW) – a woman NGO in Indonesia. In PPSW she gained experience as a grass root women organizer, community trainer, facilitator, project coordinator and program manager. She was appointed as the director of PPSW in 1995 and served there until 2000.
In 2001, Nani founded PEKKA (Women Headed Family Empowerment) focusing on empowering female heads of family, the poorest of the poor in Indonesia. PEKKA offered exceptional support to women who head of families—to recognize themselves as capable of making important contributions to society, helping them to create new roles for themselves, individually and collectively.
Nani, leading over 60 PEKKA team members, has accompanied over 60,000 women-headed families in over 3,000 self-help groups across 1,300 villages in 20 of 34 provinces in Indonesia fight for their education, economic, legal, social and political rights.
Alongside her work through PEKKA, Nani co-founded several national networks and NGOs which promote women’s rights and advancing policy reforms for the sector especially in the face of its marginalization in public policy and funding. Among them are ASPPUK (Association of NGOs Working with Women Entrepreneurs and Micro Businesses) on economic justice for women, and ALIMAT; a network of activists and Islamic scholars for a just system for families in the Muslim context.
Zoom Link: http://bit.ly/rethink-awse
Why ReThink? And how might we create better approaches and conditions for systems change through women's leadership?
DR. IMAN BIBARS, Vice President, Ashoka; Regional Director, Ashoka Arab World
A visionary for social entrepreneurship and a pioneer of women-led and gender-focused development initiatives for over 30 years, Iman Bibars is the Vice President of Ashoka: Innovators for the Public and the Regional Director of Ashoka Arab World. Dr. Bibars is also the co-founder and current chairperson of Egypt’s very first microfinance organization, the Association for the Development and Enhancement of Women (ADEW): a citizen sector organization that provides credit and legal aid for impoverished female heads of household. She is currently leading Ashoka in launching its revolutionary Women's Initiative for Social Entrepreneurship (WISE) - a movement aiming to elevate the power and place of women social innovators around the world.
Dr. Bibars holds a PhD in Development Studies from Sussex University and a BA and MA in Political Science from the American University in Cairo.
DWI YULIAWATI FAIZ, Head of Programmes, UN Women Indonesia
Dwi Yuliawati Faiz is the Head of Programmes of UN Women Indonesia, she has more than 20 years of experience working on gender equality and women’s empowerment in NGOs, University and international development organizations. Before working with UN Women, she worked as Programme Director for Plan Indonesia, assisting the organization in setting up their strategy for girls and young women’s programming and as Director of Gender and Social Inclusion of Millennium Challenge Account Indonesia, overseeing grants on Women’s Economic Empowerment grant facility for women’s organizations in green economy. She received her bachelor’s degree (with honor) in Social Science from University of Indonesia and her master’s degree in International Development and Management, Lund University, Sweden.
KUNTHEA CHAN, Regional co-director, JASS (Just Associates) South East Asia
Kunthea is a feminist popular educator and has been working with JASS (Just Associates) Southeast Asia since 2012. Currently as Regional Co-Director, she leads JASS’ movement support work in Cambodia, Myanmar and Indonesia including facilitating ongoing training and political accompaniment of garment workers, labor and land rights activists, and women defending LGBTI rights. She has vast experience in coordinating with local partners in Southeast Asia to empower and promote women’s leadership in social, political, and economic spheres. Before her current role, Kunthea served as the Program Coordinator of the Committee to Promote Women in Politics and worked for SILAKA. In 2010, she co-founded the Cambodian Young Women’s Empowerment Network, a group that focuses on empowering young Cambodian women to demand their rights. Kunthea is also a committed single mother of two wonderful sons.
Moderator: CHERYL CHEN, Director of Corporate Responsibility & Sustainability, Asia Pacific, S&P Global
Cheryl Chen is the Director of Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability for Asia Pacific at S&P Global. She leads the efforts in the region with S&P Global Foundation grant programs, employee volunteerism and corporate ESG practices. She was previously Vice President, Head of Corporate Citizenship for Citi Singapore and has more than ten years of experience in the private sector with a focus on how corporate citizenship and cross-sector partnerships can contribute towards sustainable development. She serves as a District Councilor with the South East Community Development Council since 2014 and is currently an advisory committee member of the National Youth Fund of Singapore and management committee member of the Lien Centre for Social Innovation. She is also a Council Member with the Singapore Institute of International Affairs, an independent think-tank in Singapore.
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In what ways are we seeing women leaders redefining “success” and "progress"? And how are WSEs and their communities contributing to this? How might we get more support from others currently outside the movement more involved in this conversation? This panel surfaces the unaccountable work of women in the family, community, society and the environment, and how we might rewrite the narratives about the contribution of women in these spaces.
ANNE ALONSO, Managing Director, Deutsche Bank Group Manila; Finance Site Head, Deutsche Bank
Anne Alonso joined Deutsche Bank in May 2005 and was a pioneer in migrating one of the first Finance teams from Australia to Manila, which is Sales/PSC Reporting. She has held various roles since then in Financial Reporting as Head of Reconciliations and Reference Data Utility; Head of Non- Regulated Entities (NRE’s) and Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs); and Head of Global Risk and Consolidation (GRC) and Treasury.
She is now based in Manila as the Head of DBG Manila and Finance Manila Site Lead. Anne has oversight for 1,100 Finance staff predominantly supporting APAC, London and EMEA. She is responsible for the local finance Manila strategy and accountable to the global functional heads on the implementation of the global finance priorities.
Prior to joining Deutsche Bank, Anne has worked for Citibank for eight years in various senior roles in Treasury Operations and Credit Risk. She is a DLSU graduate – with a degree in Bachelor of Science in Computer Science major in Information Technology. In 2016, she graduated from London Business School under the DB Infrastructure Director Talent Programme and graduated from the DB Finance Women Diversity Sponsorship Program.
Anne has been a Corporate Social Responsibility Champion for DBG Manila for the past 4 years, leading “made for good” and “born to be” initiatives on education and livelihood for the Filipino Communities and partnering with key charities aligned to these advocacies.
LISA DACANAY, President, The Institute for Social Entrepreneurship in Asia
Marie LisaM. Dacanay, PhD, is the founding President of the Institute for Social Entrepreneurship in Asia (ISEA), with more than 30 years of experience in development management and consulting, social entrepreneurship and international development cooperation.
Dr. Dacanay was recognized by the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship and World Economic Forum as Outstanding Social Innovation Thought Leader of the Year 2019. She is a mentor of social entrepreneurs, a pioneer in research and education on social entrepreneurship in Asia, a champion of women’s economic empowerment and an advocate for developing collaborative partnerships between social enterprises, businesses and governments to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). She is the Convenor of the Poverty Reduction through Social Entrepreneurship (PRESENT) Coalition in the Philippines that is leading the lobby for an enabling policy to mainstream social enterprises as transformational partners of the poor for inclusive recovery and building back fairer.
As ISEA President, she also convenes the Social and Community Enterprise Constituency of the Asia-Pacific Regional Civil Society Engagement Mechanism that deals with the United Nations system on the SDGs. Dr. Dacanay has a degree in B.S. in Statistics (1984) from the University of the Philippines, a Master in Development Management (With Distinction) from the Asian Institute of Management (1996) and a PhD from the Copenhagen Business School in Denmark (2012).
NATHALIE AFRICA-VERCELES, Director, University of the Philippines Center for Women's and Gender Studies
Nathalie Africa-Verceles, or Natsy, is the Director of the University of the Philippines Center for Women's and Gender Studies. She is an Associate Professor and was former Chairperson of the Department of Women and Development Studies, College of Social Work and Community Development (CSWCD) UP Diliman. She was also the Director of the Doctor of Social Development Program of the UP CSWCD.
Natsy has a BSc (Honours) Economics degree from the University of London, and a BA in Philosophy, an MA in Women and Development Studies, and a Doctorate in Social Development, all from the University of the Philippines Diliman. Her research and extension work are in the areas of gender and development and gender and the economy.
Natsy is Treasurer and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Likhaan Center for Women's Health, an organization focused on promoting the health and rights of women from marginalized communities. She is also co-Convenor of the Asian Solidarity Economy Council Philippines Network.
GAUTAM JOHN, Director, Nilekani Philanthropies
Gautam believes that it is powerful to give people the ability to make a choice and that everyone is an agent of change. Prior to his current role, he spent several years working with nonprofits building open source community impact platforms. He is a TED Fellow, was an entrepreneur for six years and graduated from the National Law School in 2002.
Moderator: ZHIHAN LEE, Ashoka fellow; Co-founder and Group CEO, Bagosphere
Zhihan is the co-founder and Group CEO of BagoSphere, a human skills development platform that accelerates career readiness and career growth. Zhihan worked at a medical-tech start-up in Stockholm before venturing into rural India to work with a social enterprise involved in rural IT outsourcing. Graduating from the National University of Singapore's Engineering Science Program, he studied entrepreneurship at the Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship & The Royal Institute of Technology. For his work at BagoSphere, he was named as a Global Good Fund Fellow in 2016 and an Ashoka Fellow in 2018.
Zoom Link: http://bit.ly/rethink-deepen
How might partnerships & collaborations better deepen the work of women towards an Everyone A Changemaker World? This panel aims to identify gaps in the support of women social entrepreneurs, and discuss how we might build alliances and partnerships towards a shared vision and creation of programs that can bring about systemic change for women changemakers.
IRMA SITOMPUL, Program Director, Women's Earth Alliance - Indonesia
Irma is the founder of the Pratisara Bumi Foundation, an ecosystem builder for grassroots sustainable development. As part of her work within the foundation, Irma partnered with the Women’s Earth Alliance and became the program director for their grassroots accelerator chapter in Indonesia. So far, 50 environmental women leaders, from 20 out of the 34 provinces in Indonesia, have joined the program and received support to develop solutions that enhance positive and sustainable change in the country.
Irma is also the founder and director of For Good, a sustainability-focused consultancy group. She works with organizations and social enterprises in accelerating their impact and expanding their reach through communications and community engagement.
Irma has extended experiences in business development, entrepreneurship, communication strategy, and environmental management.
A Master of Environment from the Australian National University and a Bachelor of Communications from the University of Indonesia, allow Irma to combine her knowledge and skills to make impact on sustainability through her work.
Her mission is to make sure entrepreneurs and changemakers have the tools and knowledge to run their projects in the most responsible way possible. As a result, she’s been deeply involved in several acceleration programs and events as a mentor and facilitator, such as the Ocean Youth Summit, UNDP’s Youth Co:Lab, Food for the Future and Startup Weekend.
CAROLINE LIOW, Managing Director, Deutsche Bank Singapore
Caroline leads and sets strategic direction for COO Operations in Asia Pacific across all post-trade client and operational services. She works closely with both the Investment and Corporate Bank to align Operations strategy to bank's strategic client strategic focus using common platforms, tools and framework. She is focused on operational transformation and enabling business growth and sustainability through digitalisation and strategic partnerships with providers and market utilities. She manages a team size of 1200 across 15 locations in Asia Pacific. Caroline sits on the Board of Deutsche Knowledge Services and is a Director of the Singapore Clearing House Association. Her experience spanned across Finance and Operations in various Financial institutions prior to joining Deutsche Bank.
MAY SRIPATANASKUL, CEO & founder, LUKKID Co., Ltd and Asian Leadership Academy
May is one of the pioneers who introduced human-centered design to business and social organizations in Thailand. May graduated from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and was a d.leader at the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (Stanford d.school). She founded LUKKID, an innovation consulting enterprise that helps organizations to innovate and develop new products and services through design-led approaches. Since 2013, May and her team had worked with over 200 leading business in Thailand and cross continents including leading financial institutions, telecommunication operators, and manufacturers in the country. Her work includes design thinking training, customized innovation co-creation programs, and executive coaching on corporate innovation initiatives. May has extended her design thinking work beyond the corporate world by introducing the concept to promote social development and equity in Thailand. She has been appointed Equity Initiative Fellow in 2018, Atlantic Fellow in 2019, Obama Foundation Asia Pacific Leader in 2020 and Tatler Asia Gen T. Leader in 2020.
SASKIA TJOKRO, Director Advisory, ANGIN
Prior to joining ANGIN Advisory, Saskia worked as a market consultant in various impact driven organization projects focusing in Southeast Asia. Her specialty is strategic market planning, market intervention, and policy development for SME and tertiary sector ecosystem building for emerging markets. MBA graduate from University of Gadjah Mada with several entrepreneurship credits from Rotterdam School of Management. She won the global Erasmus University MBA International Business Case competition Spring 2010 and was an early adopter of the EU incubator movement in Maastricht 2011. Currently aiming for PhD, she wrote scholar articles for MBA handbooks focusing on future workforce and Indonesia case studies. Knowledge sharing is her passion. A certified training method from SKKNI; ESG, impact and design thinking are her curiosity. Check her footprints in Angin Advisory!
Moderator: RAJESH VARGHESE, Chief Transformation Officer, South Central Community FSC
Rajesh Varghese left his job as a computer engineer at IBM to change the world. Since making that decision, he has spent the past 10 years heavily involved in the social sector, including a stint as country head of Ashoka Singapore. His journey has lead him to working with people from all walks of life, including shelter home children and social entrepreneurs. With a passion for International Development, Rajesh places a strong focus on finding ways to enable charitable actions to be scalable. Rajesh lives in Singapore with his young family and loves learning about people, culture and finds humour in everyday life.
Zoom Link: http://bit.ly/rethink-strengthen
In the face of multiple uncertainties and ever-changing demands on women leaders and changemakers, how are we looking at our current approaches to capacity-building and catering them to emerging needs WSEs and the stakeholders they aim to serve? This session aims to uncover the gaps and surface new and necessary components to increase the capacity of WSEs to create impact.
BABY RUTH VILLARAMA, Filmmaker & Founder, Voyage Film Studios
Baby Ruth Villarama is involve in international co-production specialising in producing socially-relevant films as a film director. She started her career doing current-affair stories for television (ABS-CBN) before she got commissioned to do international contents with partners (AsiaWorks, NHK, EuroNews, NatGeo, In-Docs, BritDoc Society and others) linking Europe and Asia through stories. Baby Ruth earned her master’s degree in film marketing and distribution with commendation from Birmingham City University as a Chevening scholar, where she won the 2018 UK Global Alumni Award for social impact in influencing the arthouse cinema movement in the Philippines through her studies; as well as initiating conversations and policy improvements on modern-day slavery through her films. She is the director behind Sunday Beauty Queen, the first documentary that rose above a pool of narrative films in the 2016 Metro Manila Film Festival winning Best Picture. She’s part of Voyage Studios and Film Producers Society — organisations that champion local films to the Filipino audience as well as key international festivals like Cannes, Berlin, Venize. Villarama currently a board officer of the Directors’ Guild of the Philippines (DGPI) and a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) voting for the Oscars.
PARAMITA MOHAMAD, CEO & Prinicipal Consultant, Communications for Change (C4C)
Mita thought she was going to pursue a career in academics to research on interreligious group relationships. But she ended up working in a market research company (AC Nielsen), co-founded one (Insight Asia), and survived the first dotcom bust working in Indonesia’s first Internet portal. She flourished in the advertising industry, started one of the first digital multinational agencies in Jakarta, and became Global Planning Director for multinational consumer-goods giants in London and Paris. She also sits on the board of Komunitas Salihara, an arts center in Jakarta. In her spare time, she writes for an advice column forqueer youth in Madgalene.co, swims or cycles, and devotes her life to her three gorgeous cats.
IRFAN AMALEE, Ashoka fellow; Co-Founder & Director, Peace Generation
Irfan Amalee is co-founder and director of Peace Generation Indonesia, an organization devoted to the promotion of peace and tolerance. Through the use of creative media that his company has developed, his organization has instructed more than 30,000 students in Southeast Asia in the principles of peace. He has a Masters from Brandeis University (USA) and over 15 years of experience in publishing book and media for kids industry while serving as a CEO at Pelangi Mizan and Mizan Apps Publisher. He has published over 50 books, audios and videos including Encyclopedia for Muslim Kids, Islam for Kids, and 12 peace modules for kids. Irfan has awards including Ashoka Fellow, International Young Creative Entrepreneur 2008, UAJY Multiculturalism Award 2010 and Young Creative Enterprise from Kemenparekraf 2012. Irfan is also recognized as one of the 500 most influential Muslims in the world by the The Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre – RISSC, Aman, Jordan.
ALANDA KARIZA, Managing Director, Advislab
Alanda Kariza is interested in using behavioural science to help individuals make better decisions. She’s currently working as a behavioural insights analyst and is building a behavioural insights consultancy called Advislab. Her experiences include the FMCG, tech, and non-profit sectors. She also initiated a pioneering youth event Indonesian Youth Conference that ran through for a decade and is an author of 11 books.
Moderator: AMELIA HAPSARI, Framework Change Leader, Ashoka South East Asia
For the past eight years, as the Program Director of In-Docs, Amelia has created game-changing strategies that have connected Indonesian and Southeast Asian documentary bio films with funding, distribution, and social impact partners. These strategies build an early infrastructure for Indonesian documentary films, that enable high quality films to be produced and achieve social impact. Documentary filmmaking has been a deprived ecosystem without formal avenues of funding and distribution. Creative documentaries that reflect on important and critical views of Indonesian society were deemed to have no commercial value.
Her leadership at In-Docs has elevated the visibility, financial possibilities and impact of creative documentaries from Indonesia and Southeast Asia. In 2015, In-Docs co-created Dare to Dream Asia program in partnership with STEPS, a documentary organization. Through Dare to Dream Asia, Asian talents were supported with international mentorship and funding that can help the global distribution of their projects. To date, 8 films produced under the Dare to Dream Asia program have been selected to more than 50 international film festivals and have been awarded in more than 10 international film festivals. Six films have been broadcasted globally. In partnership with the Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy, in 2017 In-Docs initiated Docs By The Sea. The international forum connects most promising documentary projects from Southeast Asia with the international industry. In the past 3 years, Docs By The Sea has supported 74 documentary projects. 22 projects have been completed to date, and they have been shown in more than 90 international film festivals. These projects have attracted more than 40 funding and financing from all over the world, and nine films have been broadcasted globally.
In-Docs is also the host of Good Pitch program in Indonesia, that connects best documentary films from Indonesia and Southeast Asia with 400+ changemakers from various fields. Attending changemakers are asked to consider how can they collaborate with the films to achieve social impact. Since 2017, nine films in the Good Pitch program have forged more than 350 partnerships. Good Pitch program is a collaboration with Doc Society, a U.K and U.S. based documentary organization. Amelia lives with her two children and a husband in Jakarta. Before finding a little oasis in the frantic city, she has studied, lived, and worked in the United States, Germany, China, and Timor-Leste.
Zoom Link: http://bit.ly/rethink-amplify
Great stories happen to those who can tell them. This session is intended to introduce different ways to approach communications, campaign, and storytelling to engage different stakeholders, to activate collaboration, and to create greater impact.
KRITAYA SREESUNPAGIT, Ashoka fellow; Facilitator & trainer in personal transformation
Kritaya started her career as social entrepreneur, founded YIY Foundation working in supporting young people to become social entrepreneurs and became Ashoka fellow in 2004. At a peak point in her social change career, she found that her life was extremely off balance and realized that she needed to pay more attention to her wellbeing and in turn found new ways in transforming the world through self-transformation. Now she works as a facilitator, trainer, therapist and healer experimenting in integrating cutting edge tools from mindfulness, Satir therapy, Transformation Game, Enneagram, Somato Respiratory Integration to energy healing and brain-based therapies. She also works in establishing network of mental health and wellbeing professionals and volunteers to offer variety form of services and support for people in need, especially in this pandemic time.
JACKIE CAÑIZA, Chief Instigator and Managing Partner, Haraya Coaching
Jackie is the Founder and one of the Managing Partners of Haraya Coaching. As a Certified Coach, Jackie works with individuals and teams in setting and achieving their transformation goals through coaching and learning. She is passionate about helping others find their life purpose, leadership voice, career aspirations, create balance and live to the fullest. For Haraya Coaching, she has partnered with key clients such as Google, Family Mart, Manila Doctors Hospital, Development Academy of the Philippines, EY, SunLife Financial, Globe Telecom, among others, and recently Ashoka Southeast Asia to support its DIWA WSEs through the delivery of leadership modules and transformational group coaching.
Jackie graduated from De La Salle University with degrees in Psychology and Marketing. She completed her Advanced Certificate for Executives at the MIT Sloan School of Management in Cambridge, Massachusetts, earned her advanced coach education through Coach Masters Academy, and gained a certificate in Applied Neuroscience and Brain Health Professional Development Program from the Neuroscience Academy in Australia.
Jackie’s purpose is to help others reach uncharted waters by believing they can BE and DO more than they think possible. She strives every day to keep balance in her life by fulfilling her roles as supportive wife to her banker husband, cheerleader for her two active daughters, & playmate to her 2 dogs. She is a cancer voyager, learning every day to find new purpose in her journey, and loves to share her story and life lessons through speaking engagements.
DIENA HARYANA, Founder, SEJIWA / Ashoka Fellow
Diena Haryana is the founder of Yayasan Semai Jiwa Amini (SEJIWA Foundation), an NGO working in Child Protection online and offline, based in Jakarta, Indonesia. Her passion is mainly to work for children, ensuring children to live with dignit and respect in nurturing and safe environments, online and offline. Her foundation actively works with children, youth, parents and teachers in the protection of children, online and offline in all parts of Indonesia, in the areas of raising awareness, capacity development, advocacy and campaigns. She is a yoga enthusiast, and loves working with people in people development.
Moderator: JEN HORN, AWSE Program Manager, Ashoka Southeast Asia / Founder, Muni
Jen Horn is a learning facilitator, coach, researcher and writer who plants seeds for reconnection and regeneration.
She grows a community for reflection and conversation for a more mindful, equitable and livable world as the founder of Muni, host of the Muni on This podcast, and as a certified transformational coach with Haraya Coaching. She also facilitates learning on sustainability at the Leadership & Strategy department of Ateneo de Manila University. She completed her MSc in Sustainable Development from the University of Surrey, where her research focused on developing a framework for understanding the personal motivations of sustainability leaders in the Philippines.
She believes that a life-sustaining society happens not when people work themselves to the ground, but when people root in gratitude, humility, curiosity and compassion, honor integrity and authenticity, create space for hope and possibility, and move forward courageously in the face of uncertainty.
Connect with her on Instagram @jenhorn_ and LinkedIn. Learn more about her work via linktr.ee/jenhorn and jenhorn.substack.com.
Zoom Link: http://bit.ly/rethink-care
Women changemakers' drive to create impact can often be accompanied by the belief that to do that, one must not stop working, because the work will never be done. However, those who have achieved systemic impact show the value of continuously step back to reflect and reframe the inner space from which they root their leadership. This session looks at the pressures WSEs tend to put on themselves, especially with the multiple burdens that come with being a woman, and how we might create spaces that allow women changemakers to normalize self-care, reflection and reconnection with their purpose and joy in their work.
NATASHA TANJUTCO, Co-founder, Kids for Kids Philippines & TAYO
Natasha Mañosa-Tanjutco is currently a student at the University of the Philippines Diliman for Fine Arts & advocates for culture, climate and children's rights. At the age of 15 in 2015 she co-Founded Kids for Kids Philippines along with her sister bella — a organization run solely by young people to empower the youth to power the nation, specifically for the child’s right to a safe environment, Crafting creative opportunities to cultivate a community of change with over 1500 volunteers worldwide. She has spoken to hundreds of students, local governments, and international audiences in hopes of uplifting her people and planet, focusing on design solutions accessible to the most vulnerable. In 2018 they Co-Founded TAYO, a multidisciplinary creative agency which aims to use design as a tool for positive ecological and societal transformation. Working with social enterprises and corporations to make regenerative design business as usual, she believes in the strength and soul of indigenous people and local communities as the main inspiration for all she does.
ALVIAN WARDANA, Ashoka Young Changemaker; Founder, Literasi Anak Banua
When Alvian visited rural villages in Kalimantan, he was shocked that third-graders could not read simple game instruction. He kickstarted Literasi Anak Banua with five close friends to provide free tutorial classes for academic and non-academic subjects twice a week. Literasi Anak Banua also from time to time organizes fun activities that create access to quality educational materials in remote villages. After three years, Literasi Anak Banua has covered 14 villages in South Kalimantan; helping around 1,800 children to read and improve the development of children as a whole. Now he has 24 team members and 30 young volunteers who share the same vision with Alvian and live close to remote villages. He opens up opportunity for team members, young volunteers, and local teachers to share ideas and develop their own projects with the support of others in Literasi Anak Banua. Alvian believes that by involving them in his initiative and sharing the insights to a larger community, we can raise more awareness on social issues and encourage people to start taking actions.
REESE WONG, Founder, ISSIA HK
Reese is a young changemaker and Founder of ISSIA HK (issiahk.org), a youth-led nonprofit that cultivates global citizenship and builds capacity to empower future changemakers through peer-to-peer and project-based learning. Since 2019, ISSIA has involved over 300+ students from 70+ schools in the Asia Pacific, launching 30+ projects surrounding SDG 4 and 17. Reese's work has been featured across international media and as a speaker, he's spoken at 20+ engagements including global conferences (e.g. World Humanitarian Forum London, Enactus World Cup etc.) As a passionate advocate for youth empowerment and community involvement, he was awarded the Hong Kong Outstanding Students Award 2019-2020 and was a Youth Delegate at UNITE 2030 and YOUNGA 2021.
NUKE GUNARTO, Ashoka Young Changemaker; Outreach Staff, In-Docs
Nuke is an ambitious young talent in doing project based on her interests such as human resources, people development, business, analytical project, marketing strategy, negotiation, content writing, and communication.
She started her journey since she was 6 years old as the best student at Kartika 11-23 kindergarten school. She ever represented Jambi Province in National Student Conference, received an honor as Putri Pendidikan Indonesia Intelegensia Jambi (one of the education ambassadors), received an honor as Duta Bahasa Pelajar Jambi (one of the ambassadors), represented West Sumatra as Youth Advisory Board Member of DokterGenZ Hipwee and many more. Now, with more than 20 achievements, projects, trainings, and courses, Nuke grows up as a young talent with strong desire to collaborate with other startups, multinational companies, and simply everyone who has good intention to do business.
Apart from collaboration, Nuke builds her own business as a founder and head owner of Nukeytalks. Nukeytalks is an online platform that focuses on self development, college tips, and career talks. With 8 great individuals as a team and flexible working time, Nukeytalks grows effectively with more than 1400 members in Indonesia.
Learn more about Nuke through her instagram account @nukegunarto, or connect with her via email [email protected].
Host: VARISTHA NAKORNTHAP, Strategic Partnership Manager, Ashoka Thailand
Varistha is the Strategic Partnership Manager for Ashoka Thailand. She is responsible for knowledge management for partnerships as well as building a stronger ecosystem for social entrepreneurs, particularly women, through collaborations across sectors. Varistha is also an independent facilitator on well-being, design thinking, and sustainability management.
She is the founder of Cuppers Community Thailand - an online community offering safe and shame-free space to discuss sustainable and environmentally friendly menstrual products while debunking taboos and myths associated with menstruation and women's sexuality.
Zoom Link: http://bit.ly/rethink-awse
How might we continue building “an everyone a changemaker” world through the next generation? This final session aims to bring together highlights, reflections and further questions that are coming up from the parallel sessions, and give a platform for young changemakers to share how women have shaped them and their own changemaking.
Zoom Link: http://bit.ly/rethink-awse
Keynote Speech
Delivered by Najwa Shihab, with opening message from Nani Zulminarni
Najwa Shihab
Founder, Narasi TV
Najwa Shihab
Founder, Narasi TV
Najwa Shihab is an anchor, journalist, and founder of Narasi TV. She has her own weekly programme, MataNajwa, an influential talk show that takes a look at politics and current issues of the week. Najwa Shihab began her career as a reporter with RCTI and then joined Metro TV in August 2000. During the past 12 years, she has covered the country's major stories and interviewed the “who's who” of Indonesian politics. She has received a number of national and international awards for her work as an anchor and a reporter, including Runner-up/Highly Commended in the Best Current Affairs Presenter category at the Asian Television Awards in 2007, 2009 and 2011. She also received the National Award for Journalistic Contribution to Democracy from the Indonesian Association of Journalists in 2010. Her reporting on the tsunami in Aceh earned her two awards, including a National Journalism Award from the Indonesian Journalists Association in 2005. Najwa Shihab graduated with a degree in Law from the University of Indonesia and earned her Master's degree from the Melbourne Law School.
Nani Zulminarni
Regional Leader, Ashoka Southeast Asia
Nani Zulminarni
Regional Leader, Ashoka Southeast Asia
Opening Speaker, [On the need to ReThink] Catalyzing Systems Change Through Women's Leadership
Nani has been working on women empowerment at the grass root level since 1987, starting as a field worker of The Center for Women’s Resources Development (PPSW) – a woman NGO in Indonesia. In PPSW she gained experience as a grass root women organizer, community trainer, facilitator, project coordinator and program manager. She was appointed as the director of PPSW in 1995 and served there until 2000.
In 2001, Nani founded PEKKA (Women Headed Family Empowerment) focusing on empowering female heads of family, the poorest of the poor in Indonesia. PEKKA offered exceptional support to women who head of families—to recognize themselves as capable of making important contributions to society, helping them to create new roles for themselves, individually and collectively.
Nani, leading over 60 PEKKA team members, has accompanied over 60,000 women-headed families in over 3,000 self-help groups across 1,300 villages in 20 of 34 provinces in Indonesia fight for their education, economic, legal, social and political rights.
Alongside her work through PEKKA, Nani co-founded several national networks and NGOs which promote women’s rights and advancing policy reforms for the sector especially in the face of its marginalization in public policy and funding. Among them are ASPPUK (Association of NGOs Working with Women Entrepreneurs and Micro Businesses) on economic justice for women, and ALIMAT; a network of activists and Islamic scholars for a just system for families in the Muslim context.
SCALING DEEP: Rethinking Narratives of Invisible Power and the Female Gender
Moderated by Cheyl Chen
Dwi Yuliawati Faiz
Head of Programmes, UN Women Indonesia
Dwi Yuliawati Faiz
Head of Programmes, UN Women Indonesia
Panelist, Scaling Deep: Rethinking Narratives of Invisible Power and the Female Gender
Dwi Yuliawati Faiz is the Head of Programmes of UN Women Indonesia, she has more than 20 years of experience working on gender equality and women’s empowerment in NGOs, University, and international development organizations. Before working with UN Women, she worked as Programme Director for Plan Indonesia, assisting the organization in setting up their strategy for girls and young women’s programming and as Director of Gender and Social Inclusion of Millennium Challenge Account Indonesia, overseeing grants on Women’s Economic Empowerment grant facility for women’s organizations in green economy. She received her bachelor’s degree (with honor) in Social Science from the University of Indonesia and her master’s degree in International Development and Management, Lund University, Sweden.
Dr. Iman Bibars
Women’s Initiatives for Social Entrepreneurship, Ashoka Arab World
Dr. Iman Bibars
Women’s Initiatives for Social Entrepreneurship, Ashoka Arab World
Panelist, Scaling Deep: Rethinking Narratives of Invisible Power and the Female Gender
A visionary for social entrepreneurship and a pioneer of women-led and gender-focused development initiatives for over 30 years, Iman Bibars is the Vice President of Ashoka: Innovators for the Public and the Regional Director of Ashoka Arab World. Dr. Bibars is also the co-founder and current chairperson of Egypt’s very first microfinance organization, the Association for the Development and Enhancement of Women (ADEW): a citizen sector organization that provides credit and legal aid for impoverished female heads of household. She is currently leading Ashoka in launching its revolutionary Women's Initiative for Social Entrepreneurship (WISE) - a movement aiming to elevate the power and place of women social innovators around the world.
Dr. Bibars holds a PhD in Development Studies from Sussex University and a BA and MA in Political Science from the American University in Cairo.
Kunthea Chan
Regional Co-Director, JASS (Just Associates) South East Asia
Kunthea Chan
Regional Co-Director, JASS (Just Associates) South East Asia
Panelist, Scaling Deep: Rethinking Narratives of Invisible Power and the Female Gender
Kunthea is a feminist popular educator and has been working with JASS (Just Associates) Southeast Asia since 2012. Currently, as Regional Co-Director, she leads JASS’ movement support work in Cambodia, Myanmar, and Indonesia including facilitating ongoing training and political accompaniment of garment workers, labor and land rights activists, and women defending LGBTI rights. She has vast experience in coordinating with local partners in Southeast Asia to empower and promote women’s leadership in social, political, and economic spheres. Before her current role, Kunthea served as the Program Coordinator of the Committee to Promote Women in Politics and worked for SILAKA. In 2010, she co-founded the Cambodian Young Women’s Empowerment Network, a group that focuses on empowering young Cambodian women to demand their rights. Kunthea is also a committed single mother of two wonderful sons.
Cheryl Chen
Director, Corporate Responsibility & Sustainability, Asia Pacific at S&P Global
Cheryl Chen
Director, Corporate Responsibility & Sustainability, Asia Pacific at S&P Global
Moderator, Scaling Deep: Rethinking Narratives of Invisible Power and the Female Gender
Cheryl Chen is the Director of Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability for Asia Pacific at S&P Global. She leads the efforts in the region with S&P Global Foundation grant programs, employee volunteerism and corporate ESG practices. She was previously Vice President, Head of Corporate Citizenship for Citi Singapore and has more than ten years of experience in the private sector with a focus on how corporate citizenship and cross-sector partnerships can contribute towards sustainable development. She serves as a District Councilor with the South East Community Development Council since 2014 and is currently an advisory committee member of the National Youth Fund of Singapore and management committee member of the Lien Centre for Social Innovation. She is also a Council Member with the Singapore Institute of International Affairs, an independent think-tank in Singapore.
DEEPEN: Rethinking partnerships & collaborations
Moderated by Zhihan Lee
Anne Alonso
Managing Director, Deutsche Bank Group Manila / Finance Site Head, Deutsche Bank
Anne Alonso
Managing Director, Deutsche Bank Group Manila / Finance Site Head, Deutsche Bank
Panelist, DEEPEN: Rethinking partnerships & collaborations
Anne Alonso joined Deutsche Bank in May 2005 and was a pioneer in migrating one of the first Finance teams from Australia to Manila, which is Sales/PSC Reporting. She has held various roles since then in Financial Reporting as Head of Reconciliations and Reference Data Utility; Head of Non- Regulated Entities (NRE’s) and Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs); and Head of Global Risk and Consolidation (GRC) and Treasury.
She is now based in Manila as the Head of DBG Manila and Finance Manila Site Lead. Anne has oversight for 1,100 Finance staff predominantly supporting APAC, London and EMEA. She is responsible for the local finance Manila strategy and accountable to the global functional heads on the implementation of the global finance priorities.
Prior to joining Deutsche Bank, Anne has worked for Citibank for eight years in various senior roles in Treasury Operations and Credit Risk. She is a DLSU graduate – with a degree in Bachelor of Science in Computer Science major in Information Technology. In 2016, she graduated from London Business School under the DB Infrastructure Director Talent Programme and graduated from the DB Finance Women Diversity Sponsorship Program.
Anne has been a Corporate Social Responsibility Champion for DBG Manila for the past 4 years, leading “made for good” and “born to be” initiatives on education and livelihood for the Filipino Communities and partnering with key charities aligned to these advocacies.
Lisa Dacanay
President, The Institute for Social Entrepreneurship in Asia
Lisa Dacanay
President, The Institute for Social Entrepreneurship in Asia
Panelist, DEEPEN: Rethinking partnerships & collaborations
Marie LisaM. Dacanay, PhD, is the founding President of the Institute for Social Entrepreneurship in Asia (ISEA), with more than 30 years of experience in development management and consulting, social entrepreneurship and international development cooperation.
Dr. Dacanay was recognized by the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship and World Economic Forum as Outstanding Social Innovation Thought Leader of the Year 2019. She is a mentor of social entrepreneurs, a pioneer in research and education on social entrepreneurship in Asia, a champion of women’s economic empowerment and an advocate for developing collaborative partnerships between social enterprises, businesses and governments to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). She is the Convenor of the Poverty Reduction through Social Entrepreneurship (PRESENT) Coalition in the Philippines that is leading the lobby for an enabling policy to mainstream social enterprises as transformational partners of the poor for inclusive recovery and building back fairer.
As ISEA President, she also convenes the Social and Community Enterprise Constituency of the Asia-Pacific Regional Civil Society Engagement Mechanism that deals with the United Nations system on the SDGs. Dr. Dacanay has a degree in B.S. in Statistics (1984) from the University of the Philippines, a Master in Development Management (With Distinction) from the Asian Institute of Management (1996) and a PhD from the Copenhagen Business School in Denmark (2012).
Nathalie Verceles
Director, University of the Philippines Center for Women's and Gender Studies
Nathalie Verceles
Director, University of the Philippines Center for Women's and Gender Studies
Panelist, DEEPEN: Rethinking partnerships & collaborations
Nathalie Africa-Verceles, or Natsy, is the Director of the University of the Philippines Center for Women's and Gender Studies. She is an Associate Professor and was former Chairperson of the Department of Women and Development Studies, College of Social Work and Community Development (CSWCD) UP Diliman. She was also the Director of the Doctor of Social Development Program of the UP CSWCD.
Natsy has a BSc (Honours) Economics degree from the University of London, and a BA in Philosophy, an MA in Women and Development Studies, and a Doctorate in Social Development, all from the University of the Philippines Diliman. Her research and extension work are in the areas of gender and development and gender and the economy.
Natsy is Treasurer and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Likhaan Center for Women's Health, an organization focused on promoting the health and rights of women from marginalized communities. She is also co-Convenor of the Asian Solidarity Economy Council Philippines Network.
Gautam John
Director, Nilekani Philanthropies
Gautam John
Director, Nilekani Philanthropies
Panelist, DEEPEN: Rethinking partnerships & collaborations
Gautam believes that it is powerful to give people the ability to make a choice and that everyone is an agent of change. Prior to his current role, he spent several years working with nonprofits building open source community impact platforms. He is a TED Fellow, was an entrepreneur for six years and graduated from the National Law School in 2002.
Zhihan Lee
Group CEO, Bagosphere / Ashoka Fellow
Zhihan Lee
Group CEO, Bagosphere / Ashoka Fellow
Moderator, DEEPEN: Rethinking partnerships & collaborations
Zhihan is the co-founder and Group CEO of BagoSphere, a human skills development platform that accelerates career readiness and career growth. Zhihan worked at a medical-tech start-up in Stockholm before venturing into rural India to work with a social enterprise involved in rural IT outsourcing. Graduating from the National University of Singapore's Engineering Science Program, he studied entrepreneurship at the Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship & The Royal Institute of Technology. For his work at BagoSphere, he was named as a Global Good Fund Fellow in 2016 and an Ashoka Fellow in 2018.
STRENGTHEN: Rethinking capacity-building approaches
Moderated by Rajesh Varghese
Irma Sitompul
Program Director, Women's Earth Alliance - Indonesia
Irma Sitompul
Program Director, Women's Earth Alliance - Indonesia
Panelist, STRENGTHEN: Rethinking capacity-building approaches
Irma is the founder of the Pratisara Bumi Foundation, an ecosystem builder for grassroots sustainable development. As part of her work within the foundation, Irma partnered with the Women’s Earth Alliance and became the program director for their grassroots accelerator chapter in Indonesia. So far, 50 environmental women leaders, from 20 out of the 34 provinces in Indonesia, have joined the program and received support to develop solutions that enhance positive and sustainable change in the country.
Irma is also the founder and director of For Good, a sustainability-focused consultancy group. She works with organizations and social enterprises in accelerating their impact and expanding their reach through communications and community engagement.
Irma has extended experiences in business development, entrepreneurship, communication strategy, and environmental management.
A Master of Environment from the Australian National University and a Bachelor of Communications from the University of Indonesia, allow Irma to combine her knowledge and skills to make impact on sustainability through her work.
Her mission is to make sure entrepreneurs and changemakers have the tools and knowledge to run their projects in the most responsible way possible. As a result, she’s been deeply involved in several acceleration programs and events as a mentor and facilitator, such as the Ocean Youth Summit, UNDP’s Youth Co:Lab, Food for the Future and Startup Weekend.
Caroline Liow
Managing Director, Deutsche Bank Singapore
Caroline Liow
Managing Director, Deutsche Bank Singapore
Panelist, STRENGTHEN: Rethinking capacity-building approaches
Caroline leads and sets strategic direction for COO Operations in Asia Pacific across all post-trade client and operational services. She works closely with both the Investment and Corporate Bank to align Operations strategy to bank's strategic client strategic focus using common platforms, tools and framework. She is focused on operational transformation and enabling business growth and sustainability through digitalisation and strategic partnerships with providers and market utilities. She manages a team size of 1200 across 15 locations in Asia Pacific. Caroline sits on the Board of Deutsche Knowledge Services and is a Director of the Singapore Clearing House Association. Her experience spanned across Finance and Operations in various Financial institutions prior to joining Deutsche Bank.
May Sripatanaskul
CEO and Founder, LUKKID Co., Ltd and Asian Leadership Academy
May Sripatanaskul
CEO and Founder, LUKKID Co., Ltd and Asian Leadership Academy
Panelist, STRENGTHEN: Rethinking capacity-building approaches
May is one of the pioneers who introduced human-centered design to business and social organizations in Thailand. May graduated from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and was a d.leader at the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (Stanford d.school). She founded LUKKID, an innovation consulting enterprise that helps organizations to innovate and develop new products and services through design-led approaches. Since 2013, May and her team had worked with over 200 leading businesses in Thailand and across continents including leading financial institutions, telecommunication operators, and manufacturers in the country. Her work includes design thinking training, customized innovation co-creation programs, and executive coaching on corporate innovation initiatives. May has extended her design thinking work beyond the corporate world by introducing the concept to promote social development and equity in Thailand. She has been appointed Equity Initiative Fellow in 2018, Atlantic Fellow in 2019, Obama Foundation Asia Pacific Leader in 2020, and Tatler Asia Gen T. Leader in 2020.
Saskia Tjokro
Director Advisory, ANGIN
Saskia Tjokro
Director Advisory, ANGIN
Panelist, STRENGTHEN: Rethinking capacity-building approaches
Prior to joining ANGIN Advisory, Saskia worked as a market consultant in various impact driven organization projects focusing in Southeast Asia. Her specialty is strategic market planning, market intervention, and policy development for SME and tertiary sector ecosystem building for emerging markets. MBA graduate from University of Gadjah Mada with several entrepreneurship credits from Rotterdam School of Management. She won the global Erasmus University MBA International Business Case competition Spring 2010 and was an early adopter of the EU incubator movement in Maastricht 2011. Currently aiming for PhD, she wrote scholar articles for MBA handbooks focusing on future workforce and Indonesia case studies. Knowledge sharing is her passion. A certified training method from SKKNI; ESG, impact and design thinking are her curiosity. Check her footprints in Angin Advisory!
Rajesh Varghese
Chief Transformation Officer, South Central Community FSC
Rajesh Varghese
Chief Transformation Officer, South Central Community FSC
Moderator, STRENGTHEN: Rethinking capacity-building approaches
Rajesh Varghese left his job as a computer engineer at IBM to change the world. Since making that decision, he has spent the past 10 years heavily involved in the social sector, including a stint as country head of Ashoka Singapore. His journey has lead him to working with people from all walks of life, including shelter home children and social entrepreneurs. With a passion for International Development, Rajesh places a strong focus on finding ways to enable charitable actions to be scalable. Rajesh lives in Singapore with his young family and loves learning about people, culture and finds humour in everyday life.
AMPLIFY: Rethinking communication & storytelling
Moderated by Amelia Hapsari
Baby Ruth Villarama
Filmmaker & Founder, Voyage Film Studios
Baby Ruth Villarama
Filmmaker & Founder, Voyage Film Studios
Panelist, AMPLIFY: Rethinking communication & storytelling
Baby Ruth Villarama is involved in international co-production specializing in producing socially-relevant films as a film director. She started her career doing current-affair stories for television (ABS-CBN) before she got commissioned to do international content with partners (AsiaWorks, NHK, EuroNews, NatGeo, In-Docs, BritDoc Society, and others) linking Europe and Asia through stories.
Baby Ruth earned her master’s degree in film marketing and distribution with commendation from Birmingham City University as a Chevening scholar, where she won the 2018 UK Global Alumni Award for social impact in influencing the arthouse cinema movement in the Philippines through her studies; as well as initiating conversations and policy improvements on modern-day slavery through her films. She is the director behind Sunday Beauty Queen, the first documentary that rose above a pool of narrative films in the 2016 Metro Manila Film Festival winning Best Picture.
She’s part of Voyage Studios and Film Producers Society — organizations that champion local films to the Filipino audience as well as key international festivals like Cannes, Berlin, Venize. Villarama is currently a board officer of the Directors’ Guild of the Philippines (DGPI) and a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) voting for the Oscars.
Paramita Mohamad
Communication for Change
Paramita Mohamad
Communication for Change
Panelist, AMPLIFY: Rethinking communication & storytelling
Mita thought she was going to pursue a career in academics to research on interreligious group relationships. But she ended up working in a market research company (AC Nielsen), co-founded one (Insight Asia), and survived the first dotcom bust working in Indonesia’s first Internet portal. She flourished in the advertising industry, started one of the first digital multinational agencies in Jakarta, and became Global Planning Director for multinational consumer-goods giants in London and Paris. She also sits on the board of Komunitas Salihara, an arts center in Jakarta. In her spare time, she writes for an advice column for queer youth in Madgalene.co, swims or cycles, and devotes her life to her three gorgeous cats.
Irfan Amalee
Co-Founder & Director, Peace Generation / Ashoka Fellow
Irfan Amalee
Co-Founder & Director, Peace Generation / Ashoka Fellow
Panelist, AMPLIFY: Rethinking communication & storytelling
Irfan Amalee is co-founder and director of Peace Generation Indonesia, an organization devoted to the promotion of peace and tolerance. Through the use of creative media that his company has developed, his organization has instructed more than 30,000 students in Southeast Asia in the principles of peace. He has a Masters from Brandeis University (USA) and over 15 years of experience in publishing book and media for kids industry while serving as a CEO at Pelangi Mizan and Mizan Apps Publisher. He has published over 50 books, audios and videos including Encyclopedia for Muslim Kids, Islam for Kids, and 12 peace modules for kids. Irfan has awards including Ashoka Fellow, International Young Creative Entrepreneur 2008, UAJY Multiculturalism Award 2010 and Young Creative Enterprise from Kemenparekraf 2012. Irfan is also recognized as one of the 500 most influential Muslims in the world by the The Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre – RISSC, Aman, Jordan.
Alanda Kariza
Managing Director, Advislab
Alanda Kariza
Managing Director, Advislab
Panelist, AMPLIFY: Rethinking communication & storytelling
Alanda Kariza is interested in using behavioural science to help individuals make better decisions. She’s currently working as a behavioural insights analyst and is building a behavioural insights consultancy called Advislab. Her experiences include the FMCG, tech, and non-profit sectors. She also initiated a pioneering youth event Indonesian Youth Conference that ran through for a decade and is an author of 11 books.
Amelia Hapsari
Framework Change Leader, Ashoka Southeast Asia
Amelia Hapsari
Framework Change Leader, Ashoka Southeast Asia
Moderator, AMPLIFY: Rethinking communication & storytelling
For the past eight years, as the Program Director of In-Docs, Amelia has created game-changing strategies that have connected Indonesian and Southeast Asian documentary bio films with funding, distribution, and social impact partners. These strategies build an early infrastructure for Indonesian documentary films, that enable high quality films to be produced and achieve social impact. Documentary filmmaking has been a deprived ecosystem without formal avenues of funding and distribution. Creative documentaries that reflect on important and critical views of Indonesian society were deemed to have no commercial value.
Her leadership at In-Docs has elevated the visibility, financial possibilities and impact of creative documentaries from Indonesia and Southeast Asia. In 2015, In-Docs co-created Dare to Dream Asia program in partnership with STEPS, a documentary organization. Through Dare to Dream Asia, Asian talents were supported with international mentorship and funding that can help the global distribution of their projects. To date, 8 films produced under the Dare to Dream Asia program have been selected to more than 50 international film festivals and have been awarded in more than 10 international film festivals. Six films have been broadcasted globally. In partnership with the Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy, in 2017 In-Docs initiated Docs By The Sea. The international forum connects most promising documentary projects from Southeast Asia with the international industry. In the past 3 years, Docs By The Sea has supported 74 documentary projects. 22 projects have been completed to date, and they have been shown in more than 90 international film festivals. These projects have attracted more than 40 funding and financing from all over the world, and nine films have been broadcasted globally.
In-Docs is also the host of Good Pitch program in Indonesia, that connects best documentary films from Indonesia and Southeast Asia with 400+ changemakers from various fields. Attending changemakers are asked to consider how can they collaborate with the films to achieve social impact. Since 2017, nine films in the Good Pitch program have forged more than 350 partnerships. Good Pitch program is a collaboration with Doc Society, a U.K and U.S. based documentary organization. Amelia lives with her two children and a husband in Jakarta. Before finding a little oasis in the frantic city, she has studied, lived, and worked in the United States, Germany, China, and Timor-Leste.
CARE: Rethinking well-being for women changemakers
Moderated by Jen Horn
Kritaya Sreesungpagit
Facilitator & trainer in personal transformation / Ashoka Fellow
Kritaya Sreesungpagit
Facilitator & trainer in personal transformation / Ashoka Fellow
Panelist, CARE: Rethinking well-being for women changemakers
Kritaya started her career as a social entrepreneur, founded YIY Foundation working in supporting young people to become social entrepreneurs, and became an Ashoka Fellow in 2004. At a peak point in her social change career, she found that her life was extremely off balance and realized that she needed to pay more attention to her wellbeing and in turn found new ways in transforming the world through self-transformation. Now she works as a facilitator, trainer, therapist, and healer experimenting in integrating cutting edge tools from mindfulness, Satir therapy, Transformation Game, Enneagram, Somato Respiratory Integration to energy healing and brain-based therapies. She also works in establishing a network of mental health and wellbeing professionals and volunteers to offer a variety form of services and support for people in need, especially in this pandemic time.
Jackie Caniza
Chief Instigator and Managing Partner, Haraya Coaching
Jackie Caniza
Chief Instigator and Managing Partner, Haraya Coaching
Panelist, CARE: Rethinking well-being for women changemakers
Jackie is the Founder and one of the Managing Partners of Haraya Coaching. As a Certified Coach, Jackie works with individuals and teams in setting and achieving their transformation goals through coaching and learning. She is passionate about helping others find their life purpose, leadership voice, career aspirations, create balance and live to the fullest. For Haraya Coaching, she has partnered with key clients such as Google, Family Mart, Manila Doctors Hospital, Development Academy of the Philippines, EY, SunLife Financial, Globe Telecom, among others, and recently Ashoka Southeast Asia to support its DIWA WSEs through the delivery of leadership modules and transformational group coaching.
Jackie graduated from De La Salle University with degrees in Psychology and Marketing. She completed her Advanced Certificate for Executives at the MIT Sloan School of Management in Cambridge, Massachusetts, earned her advanced coach education through Coach Masters Academy, and gained a certificate in Applied Neuroscience and Brain Health Professional Development Program from the Neuroscience Academy in Australia.
Jackie’s purpose is to help others reach uncharted waters by believing they can BE and DO more than they think possible. She strives every day to keep balance in her life by fulfilling her roles as supportive wife to her banker husband, cheerleader for her two active daughters, & playmate to her 2 dogs. She is a cancer voyager, learning every day to find new purpose in her journey, and loves to share her story and life lessons through speaking engagements.
Diena Haryana
Founder, SEJIWA / Ashoka Fellow
Diena Haryana
Founder, SEJIWA / Ashoka Fellow
Panelist, CARE: Rethinking well-being for women changemakers
Diena Haryana is the founder of Yayasan Semai Jiwa Amini (SEJIWA Foundation), an NGO working in Child Protection online and offline, based in Jakarta, Indonesia. Her passion is mainly to work for children, ensuring children to live with dignity and respect in nurturing and safe environments, online and offline. Her foundation actively works with children, youth, parents and teachers in the protection of children, online and offline in all parts of Indonesia, in the areas of raising awareness, capacity development, advocacy and campaigns. She is a yoga enthusiast, and loves working with people in people development.
Jen Horn
AWSE Program Manager, Ashoka Southeast Asia / Founder, Muni
Jen Horn
AWSE Program Manager, Ashoka Southeast Asia / Founder, Muni
Moderator, CARE: Rethinking well-being for women changemakers
Jen Horn is a learning facilitator, coach, researcher and writer who plants seeds for reconnection and regeneration.
She grows a community for reflection and conversation for a more mindful, equitable and livable world as the founder of Muni, host of the Muni on This podcast, and as a certified transformational coach with Haraya Coaching. She also facilitates learning on sustainability at the Leadership & Strategy department of Ateneo de Manila University. She completed her MSc in Sustainable Development from the University of Surrey, where her research focused on developing a framework for understanding the personal motivations of sustainability leaders in the Philippines.
She believes that a life-sustaining society happens not when people work themselves to the ground, but when people root in gratitude, humility, curiosity and compassion, honor integrity and authenticity, create space for hope and possibility, and move forward courageously in the face of uncertainty.
Connect with her on Instagram @jenhorn_ and LinkedIn. Learn more about her work via linktr.ee/jenhorn and jenhorn.substack.com.
SCALING OUT: How women are building the next generation of changemakers
Hosted by Varistha Nakornthap
Natasha Tanjutco
Co-founder, Kids for Kids Philippines & TAYO
Natasha Tanjutco
Co-founder, Kids for Kids Philippines & TAYO
Panelist, SCALING OUT: How women are building the next generation of changemakers
Natasha Mañosa-Tanjutco is currently a student at the University of the Philippines Diliman for Fine Arts & advocates for culture, climate and children's rights. At the age of 15 in 2015 she co-Founded Kids for Kids Philippines along with her sister Bella — a organization run solely by young people to empower the youth to power the nation, specifically for the child’s right to a safe environment, Crafting creative opportunities to cultivate a community of change with over 1500 volunteers worldwide. She has spoken to hundreds of students, local governments, and international audiences in hopes of uplifting her people and planet, focusing on design solutions accessible to the most vulnerable. In 2018 they Co-Founded TAYO, a multidisciplinary creative agency which aims to use design as a tool for positive ecological and societal transformation. Working with social enterprises and corporations to make regenerative design business as usual, she believes in the strength and soul of indigenous people and local communities as the main inspiration for all she does.
Alvian Wardana
Founder, Literasi Anak Banua / Ashoka Young Changemaker
Alvian Wardana
Founder, Literasi Anak Banua / Ashoka Young Changemaker
Panelist, SCALING OUT: How women are building the next generation of changemakers
When Alvian visited rural villages in Kalimantan, he was shocked that third-graders could not read simple game instructions. He kickstarted Literasi Anak Banua with five close friends to provide free tutorial classes for academic and non-academic subjects twice a week. Literasi Anak Banua also from time to time organizes fun activities that create access to quality educational materials in remote villages. After three years, Literasi Anak Banua has covered 14 villages in South Kalimantan; helping around 1,800 children to read and improve the development of children as a whole. Now he has 24 team members and 30 young volunteers who share the same vision with Alvian and live close to remote villages. He opens up opportunities for team members, young volunteers, and local teachers to share ideas and develop their own projects with the support of others in Literasi Anak Banua. Alvian believes that by involving them in his initiative and sharing the insights to a larger community, we can raise more awareness on social issues and encourage people to start taking action.
Reese Wong
Founder, ISSIA HK
Reese Wong
Founder, ISSIA HK
Panelist, SCALING OUT: How women are building the next generation of changemakers
Reese is a young changemaker and Founder of ISSIA HK (issiahk.org), a youth-led nonprofit that cultivates global citizenship and builds capacity to empower future changemakers through peer-to-peer and project-based learning. Since 2019, ISSIA has involved over 300+ students from 70+ schools in the Asia Pacific, launching 30+ projects surrounding SDG 4 and 17. Reese's work has been featured across international media and as a speaker, he's spoken at 20+ engagements including global conferences (e.g. World Humanitarian Forum London, Enactus World Cup etc.) As a passionate advocate for youth empowerment and community involvement, he was awarded the Hong Kong Outstanding Students Award 2019-2020 and was a Youth Delegate at UNITE 2030 and YOUNGA 2021.
Nuke Gunarto
Outreach Staff, In-Docs / Ashoka Young Changemaker
Nuke Gunarto
Outreach Staff, In-Docs / Ashoka Young Changemaker
Nuke is an ambitious young talent in doing project based on her interests such as human resources, people development, business, analytical project, marketing strategy, negotiation, content writing, and communication.
She started her journey since she was 6 years old as the best student at Kartika 11-23 kindergarten school. She ever represented Jambi Province in National Student Conference, received an honor as Putri Pendidikan Indonesia Intelegensia Jambi (one of the education ambassadors), received an honor as Duta Bahasa Pelajar Jambi (one of the ambassadors), represented West Sumatra as Youth Advisory Board Member of DokterGenZ Hipwee and many more. Now, with more than 20 achievements, projects, trainings, and courses, Nuke grows up as a young talent with strong desire to collaborate with other startups, multinational companies, and simply everyone who has good intention to do business.
Apart from collaboration, Nuke builds her own business as a founder and head owner of Nukeytalks. Nukeytalks is an online platform that focuses on self development, college tips, and career talks. With 8 great individuals as a team and flexible working time, Nukeytalks grows effectively with more than 1400 members in Indonesia.
Learn more about Nuke through her instagram account @nukegunarto, or connect with her via email [email protected].
Varistha Nakornthap
Strategic Partnership Manager, Ashoka Thailand
Varistha Nakornthap
Strategic Partnership Manager, Ashoka Thailand
Host, SCALING OUT: How women are building the next generation of changemakers
Varistha is the Strategic Partnership Manager for Ashoka Thailand. She is responsible for knowledge management for partnerships as well as building a stronger ecosystem for social entrepreneurs, particularly women, through collaborations across sectors. Varistha is also an independent facilitator on well-being, design thinking, and sustainability management.
She is the founder of Cuppers Community Thailand - an online community offering safe and shame-free space to discuss sustainable and environmentally friendly menstrual products while debunking taboos and myths associated with menstruation and women's sexuality.