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Maria Catoline is the Advocacy Coordinator at WILD for Human Rights. Since August 2004, she has been working on the San Francisco campaign to promote human rights through public policy. Maria's responsibilities include research, community outreach, and overseeing WILD's technical assistance to community leaders and government. As a Peace Corps Volunteer in Romania, Maria taught English and coordinated programs for youth in leadership development and outdoor experiential education. In Boston, she worked as a researcher on U.S. electoral policy at the Harvard Center for Ethics. Before coming to WILD, she volunteered with Mass CEDAW, a collaborative to advance women's human rights at the state level in Massachusetts. Maria has most recently finished her Masters in Sustainable International Development from Brandeis University.

Youmna Chlala is the Associate Program Director at WILD for Human Rights. She is a writer and visual artist, with a Masters In Fine Arts from The California College of the Arts. Youmna is also a Young Women’s Advisory Board Member for The Association of Women In Development (AWID), former co-chair of Amnesty International’s Women’s Steering Committee, and a former member of San Francisco’s CEDAW taskforce. She is the co-founder of GirlSource, an economic empowerment organization for low-income, immigrant and young women of color.

Krishanti Dharmaraj is the Executive Director and the co-founder of Women's Institute for Leadership Development for Human Rights. Krishanti develops strategies to impact public policy by utilizing international human rights treaties and grassroots advocacy, and designs and conducts training on human rights and leadership. With her leadership, San Francisco became the first city in the U.S. to pass CEDAW, an international human rights treaty to eliminate gender based discrimination against women. Krishanti has lectured and provided human rights training to community leaders, policy makers and educators across the U.S. and in the U.K., India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Mexico and Guyana.

Sara Hossaini is the Director of Communications and Outreach at WILD for Human Rights. Sara is responsible for developing organizational media and messaging, overseeing outreach and expanding community engagement. Hailing from Nebraska, Sara comes to WILD after three years working on and around PBS documentaries at the Center for Asian American Media (formerly NAATA), as Associate Producer on two PBS films, including the Emmy Award-nominated series "Searching for Asian America," and as national Outreach Coordinator for Heritage Month programming on public television. During this time, Sara also served as a consultant for Active Voice on a several community engagement campaigns utilizing programs such as ACLU's "Freedom Files: Beyond the Patriot Act" and "American Muslim Teens Talk." In addition to her interest in social justice media, Sara mixes it up as a rape crisis counselor, Spanish tutor and volunteer mentor to a spunky 10-year old girl.