Moqadas Hanif (Director and Chairperson)Moqadas Hanif is a development and communications professional with over ten years of experience working with nonprofit organizations in Pakistan and internationally. Her work focuses on strengthening organizational visibility, building partnerships, and supporting program through clear, purposeful communication.
She has led communication strategies, donor engagement, branding, and fundraising support, and has managed teams responsible for content, design, and digital outreach. She has worked closely with donors, partners, and communities, and has supported large-scale campaigns, events, and reporting that connect impact with people. She holds a Master’s degree in Project Management and a Master’s in Behavioral Sciences.
Ammara Manzoor (Director)Ammara Manzoor is a committed development professional with wide experience in gender mainstreaming, community mobilization, and stakeholder engagement. She is currently serving as a Gender Associate Expert with the Punjab Intermediate Cities Improvement Investment Program (PICIIP), where she supports gender-responsive planning, implementation, and monitoring of project activities to ensure inclusive development outcomes for women and marginalized groups.
Ammara holds a Master’s degree in Gender Studies from the University of the Punjab, Lahore.
Drakhshandae Badar (Director)Drakhshandae Badar received a Bachelor’s in Law (LLB) degree, with a focus on Human Rights and International Law, from the Warwick University, England. She has worked at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) as a research assistant on the case of Noor Muqaddam.
Her research focuses on a critique of state feminism and identity politics. She has also worked with the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) on a project related to the freedom of expression. She is also the managing editor of Mauj Private Limited, an independent news media company dedicated to public interest journalism, particularly on climate change, rights of the marginalised groups and communities and the constitutionally guaranteed civil liberties.
Drakhshandae’s activism and writing are informed both by her academic interests and her lived experiences. Her research focuses on the intersectional and a gender informed dimension of the human rights discourse in Pakistan in particular and South Asia in general. Her work aims at uncovering the sociolegal challenges that women face in access to justice and mobility.