Steering Group
The Steering Group plays an important role in guiding the work of the EM2030 coalition to advance gender equality through data-driven advocacy. The Steering Group is made up of representatives from coalition member organizations. It is the ‘engine room’ of collective strategy, planning and direction, including decision making about our coalition’s priorities, programmes, membership and grantmaking.
The work of this group is supported by the Advisory Body which provides critical guidance on key operational areas including executive management, financial oversight, compliance, business development, and risk mitigation, to ensure the operational excellence and strategic growth of our Secretariat. Their collaboration together underscores our commitment to accountability and inclusive governance.
Danessa Luna
Executive Director, Asociación Generando Equidad, Liderazgo y Oportunidades (ASOGEN)
Danessa is the founder and Director of Asociación Generando (ASOGEN) and has dedicated her life to promoting gender equality and helping women confront and overcome violence. ASOGEN focuses on leadership, empowerment, and teaching adolescent girls’ how to defend their human rights. Danessa studied Sociology at the University of San Carlos and holds a Master’s Degree in Human Rights.
Fatou Ndiaye Turpin
Executive Director, Réseau Siggil Jigéen (RSJ)
Fatou Ndiaye Turpin is the Executive Director of the NGO Réseau Siggil Jigéen and a trained Youth Inspector with a 2nd year postgraduate diploma. A long-time advocate for women’s rights, she founded the Association for the Development of Women and Children in Senegal in 1994. She has played a role in major legislative milestones, including the 1999 law criminalizing violence against women and the 2010 gender parity law. Since its founding, the network she leads has focused on strategic priorities including women’s physical and moral integrity, sexual and reproductive health, empowerment, and political participation.
Krista Jones Baptista
Executive Director, Data2X
Krista Jones Baptista is the Executive Director of Data2X and a specialist in inclusive data and digital inclusion with 20 years of experience in global development. Previously, she served as Global Director at DAI Global LLC, leading the Center for Digital Acceleration and overseeing data and digital projects across donors, private sector clients, and foundations. She served on the UN Foundation Digital Impact Alliance’s Advisory Committee for the Principles for Digital Development. A frequent speaker on women in tech, inclusive data and digital development, Krista has also mentored and judged innovation competitions and led global data systems programs. She is a former adjunct professor at John’s Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies (SAIS) on digital development and has a background in management consulting focused on data-driven leadership. Krista holds a Master’s in international economics from Johns Hopkins SAIS and a bachelor’s in cultural geography from Clark University.
Nilangi Sardeshpande
Project Anchor, Society for Health Alternatives (SAHAJ)
Dr. Nilangi Sardeshpande leads SAHAJ’s project on ‘Evidence-Based Civil Society Action for Gender Equality and SDGs’. An Ayurvedic doctor with master’s degrees in health sciences and yoga sciences, she also holds a PhD in social sciences from TISS. With over two decades of experience in women’s health and rights, she brings expertise in the issues related to the intersection of gender and reproductive health. As part of the sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) movement, she has worked to advance equitable health systems and promote gender justice through research, training, and grassroots engagement. Through her work with SAHAJ, Dr Nilangi has contributed to localising SDGs with a gender perspective across various states in India.
Sivananthi Thanenthiran
Executive Director, Asian-Pacifc Resource and Research Centre for Women (ARROW)
Siva is currently the Executive Director of the Asian-Pacific Resource & Research Centre for Women (ARROW), a regional feminist organization working on sexual and reproductive health and rights and gender equality across 16 priority countries in Asia-Pacific, and with more than 90 partners across the world.
She has authored regional monitoring reports on the progress governments have made towards their commitments to gender equality and sexual and reproductive rights in the region under the ‘Reclaiming and Redefining Rights’ series published by ARROW. Under her leadership, ARROW expanded its work to include the intersections of sexual and reproductive rights and critical development issues such as climate change, migration and disabilities. She has also successfully positioned ARROW as a champion from the Global South on sexual and reproductive rights.
Siva is also a She Decides champion, and sits on the leadership of the Action Coalition on Bodily Autonomy and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights of UN Women.