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Team & Leadership
SAHR Team
Natasha Latiff
Founder & Co-Director
Singapore
Natasha is an international human rights lawyer. She is also the Co-Founder and Legal Director of SAHR's sister organisation in Afghanistan. Over the last decade, Natasha has supported women human rights defenders and women lawyers to represent women victims of abuse, rape, torture and murder. She has also drafted laws and policies around virginity testing, protection of victims and witnesses and sex harassment.
Natasha can reached at natasha@sa-hr.org
Sara Bergamaschi
Co-Director
Berlin, Germany
Sara is a gender justice expert and human rights advocate from Italy. Before co-leading SAHR, she has worked with the Italian Embassy in Egypt, the German Development Agency (GIZ) in Morocco, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) in Iraq, and the United Nations in New York, Jordan, Yemen, and at the Turkish-Syrian border. She has also co-produced three award-winning documentaries capturing powerful journeys of Syrian refugees, using storytelling as a tool for social change.
Sara can be reached at sara@sa-hr.org
Catalina Domínguez Fernández
Legal and Program Officer
Berlin, Germany
Catalina is a Berlin-based feminist lawyer from Colombia with over seven years of experience in addressing gender issues, extensive technical knowledge in protection, prevention, and human rights, as well as advocacy work with local, regional, and international authorities and diverse stakeholders. Combining her expertise in human rights, public administration, and criminology, Catalina has analyzed existing normative frameworks and supported the development and implementation of public policies.
Romana Bruderer-Schwab
Advisor
London, UK
Romana is a lawyer and global citizen dedicated to championing the rights and inclusion of women and underrepresented groups worldwide. Her commitment shines through her casework exposing abuses in one of the world’s largest immigration detention facilities and her research on GBV and SRHR, informing national and multilateral policymaking. Recognizing the private sector’s vital role in advancing human rights, Romana has spent the past decade working with businesses to drive corporate social impact globally.
Bianca Lavinia Liclican
Creative Communications Consultant
Sydney, Australia
Lavinia is a Development Coordinator for STEM and Business at the University of Sydney. She holds a Dual Bachelor of Arts from IEP Paris (Sciences Po) and the University of Sydney, majoring in Political Humanities, International Relations, and Visual Arts. Her work focuses on interdisciplinary art and creative activism, addressing issues like women's rights, human rights, cultural heritage, marine conservation, disabilities, mental health, and student wellbeing across Europe and the Asia-Pacific.
Board of Directors
Maria Sologianni
Director of the SAHR Board
Maria works for the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), as Head of Geneva office and UN Representative. In her current capacity, she advises human rights defenders from all regions, regarding different international advocacy initiatives.
Kelsi Kritmaa
SAHR Board Chair
Kelsi is a seasoned philanthropy advisor and professional coach across the social impact sector, with over 18 years of experience in senior positions in renowned institutions such as the United Nations, non-profits, foundations and international consulting firms.
Alexander Sultan-Khan
Director of the SAHR Board
Alexander Sultan-Khan is a Swiss/German humanitarian professional with over 14 years of experience in emergency response and field operations across Syria, Ethiopia, CAR, the DRC, Nigeria, Niger, Lebanon, Jordan, and Colombia. He has worked with international organizations, the UN, the European Commission, and the German Government in Berlin, Brussels, New York, and Geneva. His expertise includes humanitarian negotiations, diplomacy, policy analysis, donor relations, and international humanitarian law.
Marissa Kardon Weber
SAHR Board Secretary
Marissa is an international criminal and human rights lawyer specializing in strategic litigation against abusive governments and other actors on behalf of survivors, dissidents, and political prisoners. She also advises NGOs addressing atrocity crimes. Her work spans conflicts in Iraq/Syria, Ukraine/Russia, Libya, Iran, Afghanistan, Myanmar/Bangladesh, and Seychelles, and she previously served in the ICC's Office of the Prosecutor. Committed to victim-centered and trauma-informed justice, she strives to achieve both accountability and healing.
SAHR Network
Maria Karimzad (Afghanistan / Germany)
Senior government official
Ministry of Finance in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
Since 2021, she lectures on law at the German University for Applied Sciences, Public Administration and Finance Ludwigsburg.
Prior to her work in the German government, she worked at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Law in Heidelberg on legal matters concerning Afghanistan as well as international human rights and humanitarian law.
From 2014 until 2019 she served as a legal advisor at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan as well as the Ministry of Finance of Afghanistan in Kabul, both in her capacity as a consultant for the German Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and the World Bank.
Nadia Moynihan (Singapore)
Director
August Law Corportion, Singapore
Nadia Moynihan is a lawyer who maintains a practice with August Law Corporation in Singapore and Branch Austin McCormick in London. Her practice focuses primarily on litigation and she regularly represents companies and individuals in a wide range of sectors.
In the workplace context, Nadia regularly provides training to companies on how to address harassment at the workplace, from early identification to implementing fair and robust employment policies to combat it.
She works with clients, including clients from the LGBTQ community, who require protection from former partners or strangers in cases of online and offline stalking, doxing, revenge porn, harassment, death threats and assaults.