Born in Penang, raised in Sabah, living in KL and calling Sarawak her home, Adlyn has been on the forefront of the Family Frontiers’ campaign for gender-equal citizenship rights. An affected person of Malaysia’s gender unequal citizenship laws, Adlyn is one of the plaintiffs of the historic Suriani Kempe & Ors VS Government of Malaysia case. She works on gender and social justice issues, engaging closely with policy makers in Malaysia and civil society groups at local, regional and global levels.

Professionally, Adlyn works in cybersecurity with degrees from University Malaya and Minnesota State University. She is a cybersecurity lead in a global financial institution with focus on first line of defense initiatives, currently working on cyber fusion.

Fun fact:

Adlyn is a certified water safety and survival instructor.

Lim Chee Han is a senior researcher at the Third World Network and a founding member of Agora Society. He holds a PhD in Infection Biology from Hannover Medical School, Germany, and an MSc in Immunology and a BSc in Biotechnology from Imperial College London. He is interested in health and socio-economic policy. He believes in justice and human rights for people, and that a nation can make significant progress if policymaking and research are taken seriously.

Gaithiri is a social finance advisor with over 20 years of experience in finance and a CPA. She recently led a global impact investment fund in the US, focusing on economic and climate justice. Between 2013 and 2018, she helped expand a Malaysian government-linked investment fund to San Francisco. It was there that she met her life partner and they welcomed their daughter. Until recently, she was affected by Malaysia’s gender discriminatory citizenship laws for her child born overseas. Gaithiri has been and remains a vocal advocate for gender justice in Malaysia and internationally.

Sharm Rajoo is an accountant and has worked in the private and public sectors in Malaysia and NZ respectively. She is currently a consultant at a risk advisory firm. Sharm advocates for Malaysian Mothers to achieve equal rights to confer citizenship to their overseas born children. She presented the data that was collected from Malaysian Mothers overseas on their citizenship applications related issues at the launch of the Gender Equal Citizenship Campaign in September 2019. She has been involved in the campaign since then. She is also passionate about protecting voting rights of the Malaysian Diaspora and has worked on improving the overseas postal voting system.

Suri Kempe is a feminist and activist, and focuses her energies on issues related to social justice, gender and inclusion. Her expertise in policy analysis, advocacy strategy, research, training, and evaluation stem from 20 years’ experience working with the United Nations, government, and civil society in several regions, including South and Southeast Asia, Horn of Africa, and the MENA region.

Suri held the Gender Equality & Women’s Empowerment portfolio at the United Nations Development Programme in Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei, and also worked on parliamentary affairs and communications as Special Officer to the Minister of Women, Family and Community Development in Malaysia.

Suri is currently serving on the boards of several national and regional civil society organisations including Family Frontiers (which is currently advocating for equal citizenship rights), Asia-Pacific Research and Resource Center (ARROW), International Women’s Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific (IWRAW AP), and Noor. Suri is also the co-founder of  Kemban Kolektif, a feminist consulting practice that supports organisations in meeting their social justice and human rights objectives.