Marisa is a Caribbean feminist and activist, hailing from the beautiful island of Barbados. She joined the International Women's Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific (IWRAW AP) team in January 2020. Marisa coordinates IWRAW Asia Pacific’s program on Environmental Justice and works on the Rights of Marginalised Groups of Women, using an intersectional feminist approach in her analysis and work, to spotlight the intersection of climate change and the rights of marginalised communities. She works with grassroots women and other marginalized communities in the Global South to build and mobilise the feminist climate justice movement. As a Caribbean and black feminist, Marisa has worked locally and regionally on gender issues affecting women, with a focus on gender-based violence survivors and their children, at-risk girls, and LBQ women, contributing to raising awareness on taboo issues and marginalized identities within societies, educating marginalized groups on their rights to the agency, health care, welfare and protection, and assisting in the capacity building of these groups. She is currently a member of the Women and Gender Constituency Facilitative Committee under the Women's Environmental & Development Organisation (WEDO), sits on the advisory of the Environment and ESCR group/program of the ESCR-Net and contributes to the vision and work of the human rights and climate change working group under the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) in Geneva.