The ARTICLE 19
Team

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Our people

ARTICLE 19 delivers change through local as well as international influence. That’s why our people are based in major cities and regions around the world. We have teams leading advocacy in cities such as New York and Dhaka, and thematic experts driving policy change in places as diverse as Nairobi and Tunis.

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Head of Fundraising and Development
Head of Fundraising and Development Fundraising Team

Marian Romero

Marian Romero

Marian has 17 years’ experience in formulating and managing development projects. She is currently responsible for consolidating and expanding the financial sustainability of ARTICLE 19 by implementing a robust strategy and vision of income-generating activities. She originally joined ARTICLE 19 in 2014 as Fundraising Officer.

Prior to ARTICLE 19, Marian was a Senior in-house Consultant in HTSPE’s Business development Unit (now called DAI Europe) for over seven years, with particular emphasis in procurement and management of projects funded by the EC/EDF. This provided her with excellent knowledge of and practical experience with rules, processes and procedures of the European Commission and the European Union, and required regular communication with EU delegations worldwide. Her professional experience has been mainly focused on Governance, Empowerment and Human Rights. Prior to joining HTSPE in 2007, she worked for two prestigious NGOs in Bolivia (Promujer; Ayuda en Accion-Bolivia), addressing political and civil rights, undertaking major research projects and designing policy strategies and campaigns.

She is fully conversant with PCM and donors’ rules and procedures, particularly EC, USDOs/DRL, DFID, bilateral donors (Norwegian MFA, SIDA and Canada MFA) and foundations such as MacArthur, National Endowment for Democracy (NED) or OSF. She is a qualified lawyer and worked as Crown Court Clerk for a solicitors firm in UK (2005- 2007). Marian holds a Bachelor of Law (School of Law, University of Granada, Spain) and an MSc in International Development by the University of Bath, UK.

Head of Gender and Sexuality
Head of Gender and Sexuality Gender and Sexuality Team

Judy Taing

Judy Taing

Judy joined ARTICLE 19 in 2011 and leads the international portfolio on sex, sexuality and gender rights. She developed and spearheads ARTICLE 19’s cross-cutting gender strategy, “The Mx Method”, ensuring that intersectionality and equity are at the forefront of the organisation’s global strategy, operations, and internal processes. She specialises in countering religious intolerance and hate speech, protection of human rights defenders and environmental activists, access to information, and is currently focused on combating technology-related violence against women. She has regional expertise in Southeast Asia and has designed and led large-scale projects in Cambodia, Malaysia and Indonesia. Prior to joining ARTICLE 19, she worked in the Office of the Co-Investigating Judges at the United Nations Assistance to the Khmer Rouge Trials in Cambodia and was key in determining victim participation to the proceedings and establishing the evidence base for the crime of forcible population transfer. Judy holds an MSc Human Rights from the London School of Economics and a BA in Political Science and Development from the University of California Berkeley.

International People and Culture Partner
International People and Culture Partner People and Culture Team

Marta Clave

Marta Clave

Marta joined ARTICLE 19 in September 2021, as the International People and Culture Partner, part of the People and Culture team at the International Office. Marta has a Masters of Human Resources from the University of Barcelona and a BA in Liberal Arts from Hunter University. She has worked in a variety of generalist HR roles with a focus on recruitment within the not for profit and international development sector since 2016. Prior to joining ARTICLE19, she worked for one of the world’s leading peacebuilding organisations and Freedom from Torture, a human rights organisation providing therapy and support to torture survivors. During the early phase of the COVID crisis in the UK, she worked leading the International Nursing recruitment programme for one of the NHS Trusts in West Yorkshire. Marta also worked in Egypt during the Arab Spring for Africa and Middle East Refugee Assistance focusing on advocacy and psychosocial support to refugees and asylum seekers.

Director of People and Culture
Director of People and Culture People and Culture Team

Maxine Harrington

Maxine Harrington

A versatile, knowledgeable and focused senior human resources and organisational development practitioner with extensive multi-sector experience in both large and complex and medium sized global organisations experiencing significant growth and change.   With a record of accomplishment in change and transition, establishing the People and Culture offer, strengthening systems and people management capacity to deliver organisational objectives.

Maxine has worked in advocacy, development and humanitarian organisations such as V.S.O, Frontline AIDS (IHAA), R.I.S.E and Save the Children providing remote support to colleagues and management teams in East and Central Asia, East Africa and South Asia; living and working in India, Nepal and Greece leading country teams through change, new ways of working and rapid programme scale ups

Maxine is a chartered member of the Institute of Personnel and Development with a BSc in Psychology from University of Sussex, her time overseas motivated her to complete a Masters in Community Psychology at Brighton University and shaped her professional interests in developing values based people management practices appropriate to operating environments and country contexts.  Maxine’s primary role at ARTICLE 19 is to lead on the development and implementation of progressive values based people management practices.

Fundraising and Development Officer
Fundraising and Development Officer Fundraising Team

Etienne Koeppel

Etienne Koeppel

Etienne joined ARTICLE 19 early 2020 as the Fundraising and Programme Development Officer at the International office based in London. In this capacity, he is responsible for the financial sustainability of the organisation. He dedicates his time researching funding opportunities, communicating with donors, and supporting teams by coordinating, co-designing, and writing project proposals.

Hailing from Washington DC, he previously worked in freedom of religion or belief (FoRB) in Freedom House’s Emergency Assistance Programme and in programme development at Search for Common Ground.

Etienne holds a B.A. in Political Science from McGill University (Montreal, Canada) and a M.Sc. in Conflict Studies from the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he specialised in the study of terrorism, social exclusion, and ethno-religious conflict.
International People and Culture Partner
International People and Culture Partner People and Culture Team

Rumana Ali

Rumana Ali

Rumana joined ARTICLE 19’s International office in London from August 2018, as part of the Human Resources team, now known as the People and Culture team, developing and maintaining the HR function and its practices and processes across the organisation. She has a Masters degree in Human Rights at UCL, and is HR CIPD qualified. She is currently the International People and Culture Partner at ARTICLE 19, covering the following areas: recruitment, resourcing and talent planning; the full employee life cycle; HR policies and practices across A19; contracting procedures; monthly payroll; employee relations; employee well-being; coaching; talent management; organisation performance and development; HR systems and HR intranet; HR data analytics; and other ad hoc generalist projects.

International People and Culture Partner
International People and Culture Partner People and Culture Team

Taiwo Azumara

Taiwo Azumara

Taiwo joined ARTICLE 19 in May 2021 as part of the People and Culture team. She is CIPD qualified with a diploma in International HR and a BA in Human Resource Management, and with over 15 years working within the HR field and the INGO sector, Taiwo comes with a wealth of experience in areas such as strategic HR, employment relations, employment law, performance and talent management, change management, coaching and training. Taiwo has supported teams from all over the world, from Latin America through to the Middle East and Africa and is passionate about capacity building managers, diversity and equity, cross cultural working and how these can all be harnessed to meet organisational objectives.

Senior Director for Law and Policy
Senior Director for Law and Policy Law and Policy Team

JUDr Barbora Bukovská

JUDr Barbora Bukovská

Barbora Bukovská has been ARTICLE 19’s Senior Director for Law and Policy since 2009. She leads on the development of all ARTICLE 19 policies and provides legal oversight and support to legal work across the organization.
Barbora has an extensive experience working with various organisations on a range of human rights issues, including protection from discrimination, access to justice, deprivation of liberty, reproductive rights and community development. She also initiated about 50 cases at the European Court of Human Rights on these issues and has published a number of reports and articles on a broad range of human rights.  From 2006 to 2008, she was the Legal Director at the Mental Disability Advocacy Centre, an international organisation working on the rights of people with disabilities in Europe and Central Asia.  She graduated from the Law School of Charles University in Prague and has earned a doctorate degree in law in Slovakia and an LLM degree from Harvard Law School. In 1998 and 1999, she was a visiting scholar at the Columbia University Law School in New York.
Law and Policy Programme Assistant
Law and Policy Programme Assistant Law and Policy Team

Brigitte Andersen

Brigitte Andersen

Brigitte joined ARTICLE 19 in 2023 as the Law and Policy Programme Assistant. She supports the Law and Policy team on legal work, research, and financial and project administration.

Before joining ARTICLE 19, Brigitte interned at PEN America, supporting the Free Expression at Risk team with the research and publication of their inaugural Freedom to Write Index; and Index on Censorship, where she worked with the advocacy and events teams. She holds a bachelor’s degree in International Relations from Wellesley College.