Tehani Ariyaratne is a feminist grantmaker, researcher, and strategist with 15 years of experience working in the women’s rights sector in Sri Lanka and South Asia. Her work focuses on the intersections of gender, labor, and migration, with a strong commitment to feminist philanthropy, feminist institution-building and movement sustainability.

She brings deep expertise in addressing funding inequities, particularly the shrinking resources for women’s rights and gender justice in the Global South, and is passionate about building strong, accountable institutions to confront rising anti-gender, anti-rights, and anti-democratic forces around the world.

She is currently a Co-Director of Just Futures Collaborative, a feminist initiative cultivating global cross-movement strategies for challenging criminalization, promoting human rights, and protecting democracy.

She is a domestic workers activist working at the intersection of labor rights, gender justice, and migration in the Gulf and Southeast Asia. Due to security concerns, her full identity is withheld. She brings deep expertise in grassroots organizing, advocacy for migrant workers, and survivor-centered support mechanisms.

Her work represents a vital and too-often-invisible front of feminist struggle. We are honored to have her leadership guiding FAR forward.

Maria Herminia Graterol is a Venezuelan expert in international women’s human rights law, gender, and development. Her work centers on advancing women’s economic and social rights, with a particular focus on the right to education for women and girls. She has extensive experience providing training, conducting research, and supporting program evaluations for women’s rights and human rights organizations around the world. 

In recent years, she worked with Community Legal Centres Australia, the International Network to End Violence Against Women and Girls and the Alliance for Feminist Movements on various initiatives. In 2025, she finished her term as Board member of the Think+DO Tank Foundation (Australia) and as Co-chair of International Women’s Rights Action Watch Asia-Pacific. 

Tulika Srivastava is a feminist human rights lawyer with decades of experience advancing gender justice across Asia and globally. She is currently the Executive Director of IWRAW Asia Pacific, where she leads efforts to realize women’s human rights through the lens of CEDAW and feminist international law. Previously, she served as Executive Director of Women’s Fund Asia (formerly South Asia Women’s Fund). Tulika is also Co-Chair of Prospera – the International Network of Women’s Funds and Managing Trustee of AALI (Association for Advocacy and Legal Initiatives) in India. Earlier in her career, she directed the NGO network formed at the conclusion of the UN Open-Ended Working Group that drafted the Optional Protocol to CEDAW, and advised the Royal Government of Cambodia on domestic violence legislation.

Krishanti Dharmaraj is a South Asian–American human rights practitioner with over 25 years of experience advancing gender and racial justice. She is the founder of the Dignity Index, a methodology and process to prevent and remedy structural discrimination, and Dignidad360, an innovation lab to increase safety for women and girls in both public and private spheres. She has co-founded WILD for Human Rights, initiated the US Human Rights Network, served as Western Regional Spokesperson for Amnesty International USA, and formerly led the Center for Women’s Global Leadership (CWGL). Most recently, she served on the Governing Board of the UN Spotlight Initiative, representing civil society.