Today, we are excited to announce a new Board of Trustees at Chayn.
We welcome three new members of the Board of Trustees who bring decades of experience across gender-based violence policy, technology, legal rights, and survivor services. Together, alongside Chayn’s executive leadership, staff, and volunteers, they will work to continue advancing Chayn’s mission of using technology to help survivors of gender-based violence heal across borders.
Chayn would like to express our gratitude towards outgoing Trustees including Anjali Ramachandran, Antonella Neopolitano, Dama Sathianathan, Di Luong, and Diahanne Rhiney for their service and their continued commitment towards the global movement of global gender-based violence education, prevention, and healing.
Chayn’s new Board of Trustees
Chair — Pamela Zaballa is the Executive Director of No More. With more than 15 years of experience, Pamela has worked to support survivors of violence, as well as to prevent abuse and assault from occurring in the first place. Previously, she served as the Prevention for Domestic Abuse Director at Hestia where she created successful initiatives to utilize state-of-the-art technology to help victims and to engage corporations as partners in the effort to stop domestic and sexual violence. During that time, she launched UK Says NO MORE and consulted for NO MORE as the International Development Director. She is also a Trustee for the Employers Initiative Against Domestic Abuse.
Trustee — Nighat Dad is the founder of Digital Rights Foundation, a charity organisation focused on cyber harassment, data protection and free speech online in Pakistan and South Asia. She is a Pakistani lawyer and an inaugural member of the Oversight Board, which since 2020 has been working to better protect freedom of expression and human rights on Meta’s platforms by making principled, independent decisions about content. As a feminist and pioneer for women’s rights activism in Pakistan, Nighat has raised awareness of patriarchy and illuminated her own experience as a woman engaged in digital rights activism. Her accomplishments include being named a Next Generation Leader by Time Magazine in 2015, the Dutch Human Rights Tulip Award in 2016, a TED Global Fellowship in 2017 and nomination as a Young Global Leader by World Economic Forum in 2018, as well as being listed among 2019’s 21 Young Leaders from Asia by Asia Society.
Trustee — Kathryn Kosmides is a long-time entrepreneur and activist who has worked with dozens of venture-backed startups to launch and scale their marketing. She is a survivor of gender-based violence and created Garbo after her own experiences. Garbo is on a mission to help proactively prevent harm in the digital age through technology, tools, and education — including their new online background check platform that helps people and platforms protect themselves and their communities. Kathryn has been featured in top publications including Fortune, Washington Post, TechCrunch, and Huffington Post on topics ranging from SEO to being a CEO. In 2021, she was named one of Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business.
Our new Trustees have been part of Chayn’s wider community of partners. They are passionate about our 2022–25 public strategy, and will advance the organisation’s work, knowing that we must remain grounded in our foundational values and principles in this next chapter of Chayn.
We will be expanding the Board and looking for more trustees soon.
Should you want to be involved in our work or have questions, please contact us at team@chayn.co.
