Staff
Gisela Valle – Director
Jhoanna Mosquera – Fundraising & Development Manager
Priscila Brandão -Operations Manager
Amanda Odelius – Administrator & Finance Officer
Sara Zavala – Administrator & Finance Officer
Elizabeth Jiménez – Policy and Communications Coordinator – VAWG
Dolores Modern – Policy and Communications Coordinator – Employment Rights
Noel Genne – Outreach & Development Coordinator
Tamya Bustamante – No Limits Project Coordinator
Marcela Benedetti -Training and Development Manager
Isabela Gomes – VAWG Manager
Myriam Bell – Violence Against Women Senior Caseworker
Giorgina Mendez – VAWG Outreach & Prevention Coordinator (Portuguese speaker)
Linda Sandoval – Violence Against Women Caseworker
Nahir Hernández – Counselling & Psychotherapy Team Manager
Marjorie Yanagihara – Counsellor & Psychotherapist (Portuguese speaker)
Francisca Saavedra – Girls and Young Women Counsellor & Psychotherapist (Spanish Speaker)
Brenda Ramirez – Counsellor & Psychotherapist (Spanish speaker)
Nunkui Baldajos – Housing, Money, Debt Coordinator
Katia Brassea – Drop in Adviser
Gladys Medina – Immigration Adviser & Employment Rights Drop in Adviser
Ornella Ospino – Community Activist Coordinator
Betsy Terrones – Integration & Volunteer Coordinator and Counsellor & Psychotherapist (Spanish speaker)
Patricia Pons – Bookkeeper
Contacts:
LAWRS General email: lawrs@lawrs.org.uk
Policy and Communications team:
Elizabeth Jiménez-Yáñez: elizabeth@lawrs.org.uk
Dolores Modern: dolores@lawrs.org.uk
Violence Against Women and Girls team: referrals@lawrs.org.uk
Counselling team: counsellingreferrals@lawrs.
Volunteers Coordinator: volunteers@lawrs.org.uk
Governance
Company registration and accounts
The Latin American Women’s Rights Service (LAWRS) is a charitable company incorporated on 15th December 1997 and registered as a charity on 19th April 1999. The company was established under a Memorandum of Association, which sets out its objects and powers, and is governed under its Articles of Association.
Find our latest annual report and accounts here.
Board of Trustees
Vanesa Gabriel-Robinson – Chair
Laura Somoggi – Trustee
Floralba Hague – Trustee
Catherine Boutet – Trustee
Sofia Collignon – Trustee
LAWRS’ board of trustees is currently formed of Latin American women with a variety of skills sharing a feminist perspective.
The Board is responsible for overall governance, determining LAWRS’ strategic direction, maintaining a long-term overview of the organization and ensuring LAWRS’ financial health and compliance with legal obligations. The Board currently meets every six weeks. All LAWRS trustees are directly elected from the membership.
Strategic aims
Four strategic aims will determine our programmes of work over the next five years, and we will judge our success against them:
To continue providing immediate support to Latin American women facing or at risk of, violence and poverty.
To develop or implement new, more sustainable ways of addressing immediate and long term needs of Latin American women, including putting in motion initiatives to underpin LAWRS’ longer term sustainability.
To continue working towards visibility and recognition for the Latin American community.
To influence policy and practice that affects Latin American women, addressing the key barriers identified by the No Longer Invisible research.
