Our Leadership & Team Structure
Naasala Doreen
Founder and Executive Director
Nasaala Doreen is a radical visionary feminist Queer leader deeply passionate about women’s rights, sex workers’ rights, queer and gender-diverse rights, and the empowerment of adolescent girls and young people from refugee and migrant backgrounds.
She strongly advocates for access to comprehensive sexual and reproductive health and rights, mental health support, economic justice, and community-led humanitarian responses that prioritize dignity and inclusion prioritizing LGBTIQ+ rights and HIV treatment globally.
Her activism also focuses on climate justice and the disproportionate impact of climate change, displacement, poverty, and humanitarian crises on sex workers and vulnerable migrant communities.
Doreen continues to amplify the realities and lived experiences of queer refugee women and their children and migrant sex workers within regional and global feminist and human rights spaces.
She tirelessly empowers vulnerable queer refugee women through self-sustainability resilience salon project and supports children of queer refugee women through Toto Queer Support My Education Project. Through her activism, Doreen continues to influence policies, strengthen feminist movements, and advocate for justice including birth justice, protection, and meaningful inclusion of marginalized communities globally.
Grace Dada Ayeko
Finance Officer
She is deeply passionate about empowering young women and adolescent girls in refugee and migrant communities through advocacy, leadership development, economic empowerment, and access to essential social and health services.
Through her work at KNESWO MDF, GRACE continues to champion the rights of Queer refugee women, migrant women, vulnerable young people and children of queer parents
Mugenyi Joseph
Programs Officer
Mugenyi Joseph with her lived experience as a transgender woman brings deep understanding, authenticity, and compassion to her advocacy and programming. She has developed strong expertise in program management, community mobilization, capacity strengthening, strategic planning, stakeholder engagement, and monitoring and evaluation. Her lived realities continue to shape interventions that are community-centered, responsive, and rooted in the actual needs of displaced and marginalized communities.
Kasinga Rebecca
Communications Officer
Kasinga Rebecca (Treash) is a dedicated transgender man human rights defender serving as the Communications Officer at MDF. He manages our web presence, produces narrative storytelling and audio documentaries that highlight lived community experiences, coordinates public campaigns, and amplifies MDF’s mission across media platforms and solidarity networks.
His work is grounded in advancing human rights, equality, and dignity for marginalized communities often excluded from mainstream systems of support. Through his leadership, he focuses on building inclusive systems of care, strengthening community resilience, amplifying marginalized voices, and advocating for justice and protection for vulnerable populations.
Nakakande Aisha
Community Paralegal officer
Renders legal advice to LGBTIQ+ refugees and asylum seekers fleeing persecution from their home countries on how to go about with UNHCR/DRS KENYA registration and guidance on asylum claims/resettlement
Eron Nassali
Board committee member
She is a Ugandan human rights advocate, and community leader dedicated to advancing equity, health, and social inclusion. Drawing on her lived experience as a queer refugee woman, and advocacy expertise, she works closely with LGBTIQA+ migrants, and refugees to promote access to healthcare, sexual and reproductive health rights, and community support services.
ENOU RONNIE MARTIN
Board committee member
Enou brings expertise and lived experience as a gay activist in program strategy, organizational development, and community engagement. He supports MDF in designing and strengthening initiatives that promote human rights, social inclusion, and resilience among LGBTQIA+, refugee, and other marginalized communities.
Nabaalika Zaamu
Board member based in Canada
Zaamu with her lived experience as a Ugandan Queer refugee in exile is passionate about centering the leadership, dignity, and lived experiences of historically excluded populations and young people, in the design and governance of social justice initiatives and SRHR for all