Speakers & presenters

Sabah Khan

Sabah Khan is co-founder of Parcham, which is best known for introducing the football initiative for adolescent girls in Muslim ghettos in Mumbai, India. She mentors youth from vulnerable communities in taking leadership towards social action through the organization. Parcham created history by getting the municipal corporation of Thane to reserve the first ever sports ground for girls in India. Parcham’s work, documented in a film ‘Under the Open Sky’ by the School of Media and Cultural Studies, TISS has been screened at multiple venues in India and abroad. Khan was a speaker at a TEDx event, speaking about Changing the World, one friendship at a time. She is author of the book ‘The Queen The Courtesan The Doctor The Writer : 50 Inspiring Stories of Muslims’.

Hassan Fahimi

Hassan is an international development professional with expertise in gender issues, women, peace and security agenda and women’s leadership and political participation. Hassan works with Conciliation Resources as a South Asia Project Manager. Previously, he worked with UN Women Afghanistan on women’s leadership and political participation as Acting & Deputy Programme Manager from 2009 to 2018. He led different projects in collaboration with the Afghan government and civil society organisations to enhance women’s leadership and inclusion in politics, governance and peace. He holds a BA in Public-Private Law and an MA in Public International Law. Through the global Rotary Peace Fellowship programme, he earned his second MA in Peace, Conflict and Development from the University of Bradford, UK.

Taryn Hughes

Taryn Hughes is a Compassion Fatigue Therapist and Founding CEO of Forest Hughes & Associates, a NYC-based consulting firm that provides trauma recovery programs to frontline, helping, and peacekeeping professionals across the globe. She brings a deep and personal understanding of the complexity and exhaustion inherent in serving and protecting others as well as 15+ years of experience in direct trauma support, nonprofits, and education. Organizations may contact Inquiry@ForestHughes.com for staff training and development services. Individuals may contact Ken@ForestHughes.com for individual or group coaching support. 

Le Sen

Le Sen works on the intersection of gender and peace and focuses specifically on issues of multiple marginalisation and intersectionality among minority groups. She is the Minority Women Representative at Women Peace Makers and co-author of Making the Space: Voices from girls of Cambodian minority communities. Spending three years carrying out participatory research in Cambodia with girls and young women from ethnic, religious, and cultural minority groups, she has fostered networks and advocated on minority issues at the local, national, and international levels. Le is currently working on the Global Campaign for Peace at Peace Direct and is an upcoming Rotary Peace Fellow for 2023 at Uppsala University.

Phasiree Thanasin

Phasiree Thanasin, from Chiang Mai, Thailand is the Women Peace Makers in-country director for Thailand and consults for the Pacific Testing Center and Pacific Resources for Education and Learning (PREL) based in Hawai’i, USA. She works with Pacific Island communities in Hawai’i, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Republic of Palau, and the Federated States of Micronesia. A recent Asia Pacific Leadership Fellow at the East-West Center, her focus of expertise is on education and mental health. She is co-author of the recent publication Who’s Listening? Understanding ‘Us’ to know ‘Them.’

Staci B. Martin

Staci B. Martin, EdD is a learner, educator, Fulbright Scholar, and Rotary Peace Fellow (Chulalongkorn University, 2020) who focuses on critical hope and despair, psychosocial and social-emotional learning, peacebuilding, and higher education in protracted and conflict contexts. She is a Speaking for Ourselves Action Research (SOAR) researcher, committed to co-creating practical solutions that are culturally responsive and led by, for, and in partnership with the impacted community, especially refugee communities. She has designed and implemented psychosocial peace building educational programs in South Africa, Nepal, Jamaica, and Kenya. She recently co-authored the book Who’s Listening? Understanding ‘Us’ to know ‘Them’. Dr. Martin is a faculty member of School of Social Work at Portland State University, Portland, Oregon.

Raymond Hyma

Raymond Hyma is a conflict transformation adviser at Women Peace Makers and co-developer of Facilitative Listening Design (FLD), a participatory action peace research methodology leveraging inquiry to build alliances between conflict parties and learn about each other through the process. A two-time Rotary Peace Fellow, Raymond completed the master program at the Universidad del Salvador in Argentina and the professional development certificate at Chulalongkorn University. He is an Asia Pacific Leadership Fellow at the East-West Center in Hawai’i and Rei Foundation Scholar pursuing a PhD at the National Centre for Peace and Conflict Centre at the University of Otago. His research explores the dimensions of bias in participatory research and the potential for conflict transformation. He is co-author of Who’s Listening? Understanding ‘Us’ to know ‘Them’.

Lynn Wilson

Lynn Wilson's interdisciplinary career in environmental change and its impact on vulnerable communities is anchored in a PhD in ocean environmental policy. Lynn has led UNFCCC, UNCSD and other global delegations since 2007, served as reviewer for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) AR5 and AR6, and lectured on climate change adaptation issues, eading capacity development field projects across the world. Her research on climate change resilience and disaster risk, environmental science for public policy, ocean health/human health, and the integration of knowledge across disciplines informs SeaTrust Institute's activities, including the development of a climate change pathways curriculum for innovative local resilience design, the collaborative environmental resilience network SeaTrust Lighthouse, university service on doctoral committees in global environmental policy, and as Environment Cadre advisor for Rotary International. 

Bill Benet

Dr. Bill Benet is an activist, educator, and researcher who developed the Polarities of Democracy theory through his doctoral and post-doctoral research at the University of Toronto. He has over 60 years’ experience in politics and social justice activism. He served in the US Army from 1965 to 1968, followed by 28 years in the Monroe County Legislature in Rochester, New York, including five years as Majority Leader. Dr. Benet currently holds academic appointments as a Dissertation Committee Chair with Walden University’s School of Public Policy and Administration, and an Associate Researcher with the University of Toronto’s Adult Education and Community Development Program. He also is a Co-Founder and Senior Fellow of the Polarities of Democracy Institute. 

Yalda Nafiseh Hamidi

Dr Yalda Hamidi (She/Her/Hers) is an Assistant Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and faculty fellow for "Teaching Toward Social Justice" at Minnesota State University Mankato and a member of the Ms. Committee of Scholars. At MNSU Mankato, Yalda teaches transnational and Islamic feminism/s, feminist pedagogy, and queer of color critique courses.

Martine Miller 

Martine Miller is the Acting Director of the Rotary Peace Center at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand. She is a conflict transformation specialist with over 20 years of experience engaged directly with communities, inter/national non-governmental organizations and academic institutions, governments, regional bodies, and UN agencies. Her work has engaged her in fluid war to post-war reconstruction contexts across 80 countries across the world. She is specialized in geopolitical, identity (e.g. ethno-religious, women, and youth) and environment / climate change dynamics in conflicts globally. 

Joseph Omondi

Joseph Omondi is the executive director of the Midrift Human Rights Network ('Hurinet') in Nakuru, Kenya. He has many years of practice in human rights advocacy, peacebuilding and conflict transformation, promotion of good governance and democracy and offering civic education on the Kenyan constitution with emphasis on the culture of constitutionalism. He has consulted for the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights on matters transitional justice, and on the accountability and transparency of public officials and institutions. He has also worked with the Parliamentary Service Commission, the office of the Senate as the Devolution advisor to the Senator of Nakuru County.

Linda Kasonde 

Linda Kasonde is a legal practitioner based in Lusaka, Zambia. Admitted to the Zambian Bar in 2001, she became the first woman to be elected President of the Bar Association in Zambia in 2016. In February 2023, she was re-elected as Vice-President for Africa of the Commonwealth Lawyers’ Association. She is now the Executive director of Chapter One Foundation Ltd and the founder of the law firm LCK Chambers. Ms. Kasonde is a recipient of the IE University’s Extraordinary People Inspiring the IE Community (EPIC) Award. The Africa Report named her as one of the people to watch out for in 2017 in Southern Africa. She was awarded the Zambia Society for Public Administration’s Justice Irene Chirwa Mambilima Distinguished Award in recognition of her contribution to the advancement of public service excellence in Zambia.

Leonard Githae 

Leonard Githae is the deputy executive director of the Midrift Human Rights Network ('Hurinet') in Kenya. Together with Dr. Rob Worral, he has delivered a modular Place-Based Leadership Development programme for leaders across sector and place in Nakuru, Baringo and Nairobi, with emphasis on equipping leaders to localize solutions for social transformation in the “Place.” He also has wide ranging experience in planning and scheduling of project goals, defining resources and scheduling for project, and program implementation milestones and deliverables, as well as reporting and putting in place strategies for contingency planning, risk mitigation and monitoring and evaluation.

Dean Sahu Khan

Dean Sahu Khan is the Deputy Chair of Religions for Peace Australia and Chair of Canberra Interfaith Forum. For 30 years he worked as a prosecutor with the Department of Public Prosecution’s Office in the ACT. He now continues to work as a lawyer. He holds a master’s degree in Islamic Studies from Charles Stuart University. 

Swami Sunishthananda

Swami Sunishthananda is the Resident Monk at the Vedanta Centre of Melbourne, which is part of a worldwide organisation known as the Ramakrishna Mission. The Vendata movement aims at the harmony of religions, harmony of the East and the West, harmony of the ancient and the modern, spiritual fulfillment, all-round development of human faculties, social equality, and peace for all humanity, without any distinctions of creed, caste, race or nationality.

Anvita Bisaria

Anvita Bisaria is a “passionate biophilic,” which is also her faith. She believes “consciousness is the underlying matrix in which everything is held, and humans are a part of it.” This belief is the driving force for her life/career choices. For 8+ years, she supported organizations as an environmental professional to make peace with nature. Five years ago, she grew concerned with the increasing polarization and division in the world. She has consolidated her skills to organize and facilitate conversations between people from diverse faith, background, and perspectives toward a shared vision of a healthy planet and communities. Currently, she is involved with Alternatives to Violence, Initiatives of Change, and Together for Humanity.

Mandar Apte

Mandar Apte is the Director of Cities4Peace - a strategic peacebuilding initiative of the International Association for Human Values and the Art of Living Foundation. Prior to this, Mandar worked at Shell for nearly two decades and managed Shell’s prestigious GameChanger social innovation program investing in ideas that create shared value – business value and social impact. While at Shell, Mandar won the League of intrapreneurs award (from Ashoka and Accenture) for his pioneering work to design and implement an innovation learning program using meditation practices. Mandar is also the Producer/Director of From India With Love - a documentary film to reinvigorate the message of nonviolence (or Ahimsa) in the world.

Patricia Garcia AO

Patricia Garcia AO is a Rotary Peace Fellow (Chulalongkorn University, 2017) and the partnership development manager at the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) in Sydney, Australia. She has over 20 years experience working in the world's conflicts including Afghanistan, Sudan, South Sudan, Bosnia and Burma. 

Natalia Sineaeva-Pankowska

Natalia Sineaeva-Pankowska is a genocide scholar and educator. Her Ph.D. research deals with Holocaust distortion and identity. She has extensive experience in the field of memorialization, and genocide education for diverse audiences in post-conflict societies. Her recent experience includes work at the POLIN Museum of the History of the Polish Jews in Warsaw, Poland, as well as cooperation with the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. In cooperation with the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), she co-developed the NEVER AGAIN Association's project on countering Holocaust and genocide denial in Southeast Asia. She was a European Holocaust Research Infrastructure Fellow at the Elie Wiesel National Institute for the Study of the Holocaust in Bucharest, Romania and Rotary Peace Fellow at Chulalongkorn University.

Rukmini Iyer

Rukmini Iyer is a 2013 Rotary Peace Fellow (Chulalongkorn University) and current member of the Rotary Peace Fellow Alumni Association Board. She works at the intersection of business, leadership, peacebuilding and systems design. Over the last 22 years, she has worked across the globe with corporate organizations, the development sector, communities and individuals through the modalities of consulting, facilitation, coaching and dialogue. Her consulting practice Exult! Solutions was set up in 2008 after having spent the first few years of her career in employment in India and Singapore with leading corporate organizations and educational institutions. The inspiration to be an entrepreneur came from her need to integrate her work in conscious leadership and organizational development, and peacebuilding, and to create a bridge between these spaces. 

​Bonnie and John Kruse

​Bonnie Kruse and her husband Jon Kruse are both members of the Seward Nebraska Rotary Club (District 5650). After Hurricane Dorian, they worked in collaboration with Rotary Club Lucaya on a successful $89,280 Rotary Global Grant, “The Rand Memorial Hospital Initiative”, providing hospital beds and equipment for the Rand Hospital. They provided a matching grant incentive for the Seward Rotary Club contribution to the GBI RX Rotary Club of Miami Foundation Project, resulting in over $300,000 that provided additional equipment for the Rand Hospital. The couple has hosted students from Japan, the Netherlands, and Hungary. Jon served as District Group Study Exchange Program Chairman for many years and served as Team Leader to South Korea. They have received the Rotary District 5650 2021 Charles N. Cadwallder Award for their contributions to all avenues of service; community, international, vocational, club and youth service. 

Millie Rono

Millie Rono is a practicing counselling psychologist. She holds a Diploma in Communication from the Kenya Polytechnic, a Bsc. in Psychology from Egerton University and is undertaking an Msc. in Psychology from the University of South Wales. She is a Focal Person for Mental Health and Psycho-social Support (MHPSS) Kenya Red Cross Society (KRCS) Providing Psycho-Social Support and volunteer Training in South Rift Region; a Trained Network Counsellor for Independent Medico Legal Unit (IMLU) and is a member of the Branch Management Committee of Kenya Red Cross Nakuru as Health Officer.  She is also a member of Kenya Counsellors & Psychologists Association (KCPA) as well as a Eunice Kennedy Shriver Fellow.

Venerable Thubten Chokyi 

Venerable Thubten Chokyi is the Resident teacher at Hayagriva Buddhist Centre and Tara Meditation Centre in WA. Chokyi has been a member of the Womens Interfaith Network since 2006. Since 2010, Chokyi has been the International Director of Liberation Prison Project supporting men and women in prisons worldwide to transform their minds and lives. Chokyi is spiritual adviser to Sakyadhita Australia, representing women in Buddhism, vice- chair of the Australian Sangha Association and Buddhist chaplain for Multifaith Services, Curtin University. Before ordination, Chokyi was Academic Coordinator at Nura Gilli Indigenous Centre, University of NSW and holds a Masters degree in International Social Development.

María Julia Moreyra

María Julia Moreyra is an Argentinian lawyer and Magister in International Relations. She is a Peace Fellow from Chulalongkorn University. Her area of expertise and knowledge is the fight against gender violence and particularly human trafficking, where she is academically qualified and she has field experience. Currently, she works for the Ministry of Women, Gender Policies and Sexual Diversity of Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is the Regional Coordinator for Latin American and the Caribbean of Peace Women Across the Globe (PWAG), a Swiss international organization that was created as a nomination of 1000 women from 150 countries to the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005. She is also Instructor of International Women’s Peace Group. 

Bernardo Venturi

Bernardo Venturi is the director and co-founder of the Agency for Peacebuilding (AP), an associate fellow at the Instituto Affari Internazionali (IAI) and an adjunct professor at the University of Bologna. He has 15 years of experience as a scholar and a practitioner, publishing extensively on peacebuilding, security, Africa affairs and European Union foreign policy. Bernardo obtained his PhD in 2009 from the University of Bologna. Periods of study and research led him to the Chulalongkorn University in Thailand, the Moldova State University, Oslo’s Peace Research Institute in Norway, the United States Institute for Peace (USIP) and Sussex University in the UK. He has also contributed to the European Peacebuilding Liaison Office (EPLO) serving as Steering Committee member, and was a lecturer for five years at the Marist College, Florence Branch Campus.

​Hannes Siebert

​Hannes Siebert is a facilitator, advisor and peace envoy. As senior adviser for the UN, Common Space Initiative (CSI), FELM and Peace Appeal Foundation (PAF) in the Middle East and Asia, Siebert is providing technical and facilitation support to national dialogues and peace structures, and to political reform processes. He has worked in many of the world’s most conflict-ridden societies. In South Africa he served in the National Peace Secretariat, the multi-party body mandated to implement its 1992 Peace Accord. Post-1994 he assisted the Special Presidential Task Force in key conflicts, focusing on de-militarization of youth militia.

​Elaheh Pooyandeh

​Elaheh Pooyandeh is a Rotary Peace Fellow alumni of University of Bradford (2018-2019) with masters degree in Peace, Conflict and Development Studies. Her area of work and interest includes peace education, development, chemical weapons disarmament and gender equality. She currently works as a freelancer in peace education and development in Iran.

Nino Lotishvili

Nino Lotishvili is a specialist in intercultural communication and a Rotary Peace Fellow from Chulalongkorn University, with a decade of experience as a peacebuilding practitioner. As a Georgian national, Nino’s professional quest for conflict transformation and her own life experience led her to unite inner and outer peacebuilding concepts. She launched her own initiatives: Peace Research Center Tbilisi and conscious travel company Mindful Georgia, to support conflict-affected communities and individuals to reclaim their inner wisdom and power, to give rise to more resilient and peaceful communities throughout Georgia and South Caucasus. She is currently managing and implementing Cultivating Inner Peace for Women to Blossom project, with the purpose to guide and support women activists on their healing journey. Nino enjoys gardening, dancing tango, painting, playing ukulele, practicing yoga and meditation, trekking and hiking.

Mandiedza Parichi 

Mandiedza Parichi is a Zimbabwean national currently working as Gender equality and Social Inclusion Post-Doctoral fellow at Namibia University of Science and Technology. She holds a Ph.D. in Communication Studies. Dr. Parichi is a qualified and experienced communication expert, peacebuilder and gender specialist who has experience in providing technical support and management of conflict prevention and development programs. Her strengths also include strengthening organizational capacities in innovative programming, building and strengthening capacities in results-based programs and research. She has worked as a facilitator, trainer, researcher and lecturer on issues of social inclusion, gender, media, social change, development and conflict transformation. She is deeply committed to achieve social change through peaceful means by engaging all stakeholders, particularly minority groups and grassroots organizations through her research and practice.

Masao Mizuno

Masao Mizuno is an active Rotarian and highly involved with the Rotary Peace Fellowship program in Japan. He started traveling to Europe and South Asian countries in the 1980s, and worked in Saudi Arabia. In the 1990s he started a joint venture company with an international industrial tool manufacturing company. In 2008, he joined the Ageo-West Rotary Club. He became a Rotary Peace Fellow counsellor in 2015 and assistant coordinator of the International Christian University (ICU) Peace Fellow Committee in 2020.

Juliana Hernandez de la Torre

Juliana Hernandez de la Torre is a feminist, peace and women's rights activist. Professional in Finance, Government and International Relations, a specialist in Management and Cultural Management. Co-founder and Executive Director of Artemisas, co-founder of the Open Politics Institute. Coordinator of the Parity Now campaigns in Colombia, co-coordinator of the National Network of Political Advocacy Nosotras Ahora and of the Latin American Network of Political Innovation.

Pietro Uzochukwu Macleo

Pietro Uzochukwu Macleo is a Rotarian from South-East Nigeria and the National Coordinator of Activating Positive Peace in Nigeria, and Chairman of Gray Child Foundation. He is a chartered conflict manager, diplomatic manager, an Ambassador of the Institute for Economics and Peace (Australia). He is a member of the Tony Elumelu Guild of Judges, and Nigeria Sector Representative for West Africa Business Forum. He is a fellow and senior member of several local and international institutes and organizations, and is a Board member and Secretary General of the Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution (IPCR Alumni) Nigeria. He moderates and participates in community-driven peacebuilding programs, and engages scholars and frontline practitioners on ethno-religious facets of conflict, community peacebuilding, and human security. He works extensively in conflict transformation, prevention and countering violent extremism, psycho-social support and intersection of peace values in Nigeria.

Scott Martin

Scott Martin is a Rotary Peace Fellow from Chulalongkorn University and a landscape architect-turned-peacebuilder. He is the Global Partnerships Manager at Mediators Beyond Borders International (MBBI), a former chapter president of MBBI-LA, and former co-leader of MBBI’s Rwanda project. Martin has been engaged with MBBI for about a decade as a founding member.

Elizabeth (Liz) Hume

Elizabeth (Liz) Hume is the Executive Director at the Alliance for Peacebuilding. She is an international lawyer and a conflict expert with more than 25 years of experience in senior leadership positions in bilateral, multilateral institutions and NGOs. She has extensive experience in policy and advocacy and overseeing sizeable and complex peacebuilding programs in conflict-affected and fragile states in Asia, Eastern Europe and Africa. Liz is also an experienced mediator, and she is a frequent guest lecturer and author on conflict analysis and peacebuilding in conflict-affected and fragile states. Liz holds a JD from Vermont Law School, and a MA in Negotiation, Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding from California State University. She lives in Falls Church City, VA, with her husband in a much cleaner and quieter house since their twin girls went to university.

Alexandra Plummer

Alexandra Plummer is a Rotary Peace Fellow and visual storyteller. She is passionate about creative and disruptive approaches to systems change. She built her career in the non-profit development sector working in project management and communication roles in the areas of education, sustainability and food systems. She has experience working with different community groups and international organizations. With great enthusiasm for finding creative ways to learn and exchange knowledge, she started taking visual notes during workshop sessions and soon realized the great benefit these had for not just retaining information but also for sparking ideas. She began to take this out into the world and now freelances as graphic recorder for peace and social impact conferences and events. Alex loves to connect with like-minded individuals, organizations and purpose-driven businesses, and is open to discussing ways to collaborate.

​Mustafa Rezaie

​Mustafa Rezaie is a Rotary Peace Fellow, development professional and advocate for peace and social justice, with a wealth of experience in managing and implementing projects in challenging and conflict affected environments. He has worked with the government and an international NGO for over 10 years in the capacity of M&E Manager and Financial Consultant. Outside of his academic pursuits, Mustafa is actively involved in community development work in Afghanistan. He and his colleagues and friends are currently running a peace initiative in a hard-to-reach village in Ghazni province, where they provide education classes for girls and women who have been deprived of their rights to education and work. He strongly believes in the importance of women's and girls' rights to education, and in the value of bottom-up peacebuilding initiatives that prioritize education and capacity building in the local community.

​Elaine Pratley

​Elaine Pratley (Rotary Peace Fellow, 2011 Chulalongkorn University) is a peace mobilizer and broker of partnerships in Melbourne, Australia. She developed her practice in partnerships in the government, corporate and not-for-profit sectors, and is completing a PhD at the University of Melbourne on youth peacebuilding and food. She was the co-chair of the 2021 Global Peace Conference (GPC-2) and Asia-Oceania Regional Lead in 2020 and 2023 (GPC-1 and 3). She has lived in Switzerland, Malaysia, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Australia, Thailand and China and loves working with inter-generational and intercultural teams. 

Shirley-Pat Chamberlain

Shirley-Pat Chamberlain is an energetic passionate literacy advocate with infectionious good cheer who is committed to service above self in the pursuit of Aristotelian real good. Driven by an insatiable curiosity and passion for changing the world around her, Shirley-Pat has been committed to social action literacy initiatives and community development innovation in rural and remote British Columbia in both indigenous and non-indigenous communities. She has a doctorate from the University of Edinburgh’s Centre for Canadian Studies exploring the role of civil society organizations in indigenous social citizenship in Canada.

Solomon Odero

Solomon Odero is the Co-Founder and Director of the Development Associates for Young Africans (DAY-Africa), a non-profit that promotes peacebuilding and conflict transformation with a focus on job creation and economic empowerment for women and young people living in poor urban and rural communities in Kenya. He also leads a Norwegian-funded South-to-South exchange program (NOREC) between South Africa and Kenya where DAY-Africa is the coordinating partner. Since being a Rotary Peace Fellow at Chulalongkorn University, he has been engaged as a Positive Peace Activator-East Africa with the Institute for Economics and Peace and Rotary International. He is also working closely with the Rotary Peace Center to strategically design an Africa Studies Program at Chulalongkorn University.

Kate Baudinette

Kate Baudinette has been working as a Salvation Army Officer since 2008. In that time she has had three Melbourne appointments; Richmond Chinese Corps, Reservoir Corps and her current appointment at The Salvation Army Camberwell. She has a double degree in Arts (Asian Studies) and Law. Having grown up in Hong Kong, Kate has always enjoyed learning about different cultures and religions. In recent years Kate has worked cross-culturally to establish mentoring programs for vulnerable young people, and to provide welcoming spaces for people of all backgrounds to explore spirituality. 

Khin Khin

Khin Khin is an interdisciplinary facilitator and practitioner with a background in education, development and conflict transformation. Khin Khin is inspired by people, human stories, nature, art, creative spaces, circle processes, the art of hosting conversations, chocolate and coffee. Originally from Myanmar, she is a vital instructor at the Rotary Peace Center at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand.

Priyanka Borpujari

Priyanka Borpujari is a widely published, award-winning journalist reporting on human rights in India, El Salvador, Indonesia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Argentina and Japan. She has covered business in New Delhi, and crime for Mumbai Mirror, including the 26/11 terrorist attacks. She was the 2012-13 IWMF Elizabeth Neuffer Fellow for her journalism on forceful acquisition of land owned by Indigenous peoples. She has been a guest journalist with the German political weekly Die Zeit. She was a Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence at Nazareth College in Rochester, New York where she taught a course on media and human rights. She has a wide experience of conducting writing-for-healing workshops: from an informal settlement in Cape Town, to a men's prison in Rochester. NY. She was a Rotary Peace Fellow at the International Christian University. She is currently pursuing her PhD, researching the intersection of gender, ageing and social media.