A seasoned leader, organizer, and educator with 14 years of experience founding and growing community organizing initiatives across the Arab world and Europe. She has coached over 20 campaigns, led 100+ workshops, and co-founded Ahel and Raneen. Within LCN, Mais offers global insight, new campaigns, seeding experience, strategy, and program design—always innovating how leadership practices help organizations drive positive change and adapt the organizing framework to their unique contexts.

Bringing a 15-year global journey in social change, Juman is a lawyer by training, an organizer at heart, and a passionate advocate for Indigenous struggles, workers’ rights, and equitable governance. A strategist who bridges vision and action, she ensures our operations drive impactful programs. Within the team, Juman is the go-to for tackling roadblocks, designing metastructures and infrastructures, and grounding philosophical discussions on existence, liberation, and decolonization in the immediate realities of building people power.

Alyssa holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Accounting from The University of Texas, Austin. She specializes in managing the finances of small to mid-sized private companies and nonprofits, providing reliable outsourced accounting services. Known for her precision and accessibility, Alyssa is a trusted partner for organizations, ensuring their books are well-managed and their toughest accounting questions are answered with clarity and confidence. In her spare time, Alyssa is a voracious reader and ambitious traveller.

Pilar supports the LCN team across scheduling, communications, tech, and day-to-day management. With a background in Journalism and Media, she’s inspired by the power of stories and enjoys working alongside people committed to creating change. Her role focuses on strengthening internal systems, supporting events and communications, and offering the behind-the-scenes coordination that helps the team stay connected and supported.

Amna is passionate about helping people discover their power to create change. She worked with movements in Pakistan and beyond on climate justice, gender equity, and energy transition. At LCN, she leads the Academy, creating learning spaces where organizers and organizations strengthen strategy, narrative, and leadership. Known for making complex ideas accessible and actionable, Amna grounds vision in practice, ensuring programs are impactful, locally resonant, and rooted in people power and a spirit of care.

Since graduating from LOA in 2023, Cynthia has been an active, passionate LCN member and now serves as Global Partnerships Lead, driving our Global Roots strategy. She believes deeply in the power of stories to spark collective action. With over a decade of experience in youth and women’s empowerment across Latin America, she is the go-to person for members who want to expand the People, Power, Change framework into their countries through strong alliances.

An experienced organizer, coach and trainer in Japan, Haruka finds deep joy and passion in supporting and working alongside others to build people power toward a just world. At LCN, Haruka is committed to making the Resource Center more accessible, diverse, and member-led, enabling organizers in various regions and languages to learn, practice, and share the craft of organizing. She is the go-to for organizing ideas into a creative output to share with the community.

As a social movement organizer and educator, Masha builds grassroots leadership through programs like Campaign Labs and regional hubs as communities of practice. She has organized youth, workers, and migrant communities from Seattle to the Balkans and coached Central European organizers to win clean water, housing justice, and greater civic participation. She believes that deeper connections, bold imaginations, and collective action make another world both possible and inevitable, while honoring the beauty of this one.

Sachiko is an organizer, coach, and trainer based in Sweden, originally from Japan. She has spent over a decade applying and teaching LCN’s organizing and narrative practices. She co-founded Chabujo, an intersectional feminist grassroots group in Tokyo, and has led campaigns for gender equality and coached youth leaders across Japan. At LCN, she designs and facilitates learning spaces that draw on the collective wisdom of the global organizing community.

Jafrin has strengthened, mentored, and collaborated with multiple youth-led movements advancing social justice and leadership in India. She carries a passion to engage with the complexities of relationships, hegemony, and power. At LCN, she’s the social butterfly—managing communications, hosting gatherings, and conspiring with the Liberation Organizing for Palestine group. Rooted in her political education and lived realities, Jafrin strives for a world built on people power, community care, love, friendships, and relational health.

Sakher brings expertise in technology, data analysis, and data management. With a strong IT foundation and passion for optimizing processes, he strengthens our digital infrastructure. From troubleshooting issues to managing LCN’s data systems and generating insights, Sakher thrives on implementing innovative solutions that enhance efficiency, reliability, and impact, helping our community leverage technology and data to advance its mission.