The Global Spark

Episode 2: Protect Trans Communities!

Welcome to the Global Spark, a podcast for LGBTI+ youth who want to become more aware of advocacy strategies and initiate projects within their own communities to create LGBTI+ freedom. In this episode, we talk about protecting trans communities with Nada Chaiyajit.

Who is Nada Chaiyajit?

Nada is the Human Rights Campaign Advisor at Manushya Foundation and serves as the LGBTI focal point of the Thai BHR Network and Thai CSOs Coalition for the UPR. She also acts as a Senior Advisor on Law, Human Rights, and Equality to the Board of Rainbow Sky Association of Thailand. Nada strongly believes in community empowerment for achieving social justice and has worked as a transgender rights activist since 2006. 

Her experience and expertise in the human rights field include: LGBTI rights, gender equality, business and human rights, sexual health, and media advocacy, at national and international levels. In 2019, she was awarded the Chevening Scholarship of the UK Government and holds a L.L.M. in International Human Rights Law from the Faculty of Law at the University of Essex, UK.  

Prior to her Master’s degree, she worked as a Capacity Building Coordinator at Manushya Foundation, served as the SOGIE Project Coordinator for the World Bank Group, and as a National Consultant on legal gender recognition for the United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP) Being LGBTI in Asia initiative.