Meet the Team

Project Leads and Supervisors

Elsie Ijorogu Reed

Motivated by the desire to give back to the community, Elsie Ijorogu-Reed sought to empower the indigenous women of Delta State and support their needs and basic human rights, thus forming Delta Women. Elsie took Delta Women into the blogosphere with the present Blogging endeavour. Under Elsie's aegis, the entire Financial Inclusion team comes together from different parts of the world. Besides the Financial Inclusion Project, Delta Women has been involved in its Blogging project, Ezine Project and Podcasting online, and in on-field campaigns pivoting around anti-sexual harassment drives, aside of free eye-check up campaigns and cervical cancer awareness drives.

Kanika Jain 

Kanika is from Nainital, India and lives in New York. She did her Bachelors in Computer Engineering from NTU, Singapore and her Masters in Financial Engineering with Carnegie Melon University. Kanika is a Finance Professional with Citigroup. Kanika believes that every voice can make a difference, and hopes to establish a private equity fund to make social impact. Kanika is the brain behind the initiation of the Financial Inclusion Project. After the idea germinated as a plausible project, Kanika co-headed the project. Besides her involvement with this venture, Kanika is an active and regular contributor to DeltaWomen’s Blog and Ezine and is a Core Member of Delta Women.

Kirthi Jayakumar

Kirthi is a lawyer from Chennai, India. Besides running her own International Law Journal and Consultancy, and dabbling with practice in arbitration, Kirthi is a Commissioning editor with e-IR, a writer with the Centre for African Affairs and Global Peace, a researcher for OperationOF and an Associate Researcher with Open Briefing. Kirthi has worked with several UN Specialized Agencies, and is currently involved in research with the UNDP, on Afghanistan and DRCongo. She also moonlights as a freelance journalist. Kirthi co-headed the Financial Project. Besides this venture, Kirthi manages DeltaWomen’s Blog, Newsletter and Podcasting project, and contributes to the Ezine and is a Core Member of Delta Women.

Research Team

Ann Faye Marie Alcalde

Ann Faye Marie Alcalde is a graduating BA Sociology student from the University of the Philippines, Los Baños. Originally a BS Biology major, her desire to pursue law led her to shift to Sociology. Since transferring to Sociology, she became more interested in doing research. With the help of Sociology, she has authored and co-authored several research papers in the said field. After graduating, she plans to work on a research-oriented organization and pursue a Master’s degree in Sustainability, Development, and Peace. She is from the Philippines; for this project, she is assigned to work on the Central Asia region.

Caroline A Mubaira

Caroline holds a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology with the Zimbabwe Open University and a Diploma in Health and Adult Education with the University of Zimbabwe. A Registered General Nurse and Midwife with the Health Professions Council of Zimbabwe, she has over fifteen years experience in development work at local and regional level, with HIV, AIDS and Adolescent Reproductive Health. Caroline handles training Health Centre committees in Results Based Financing and Health literacy, besides assisting communities in Strategic Planning and Management of health literacy. She mentors community development facilitators; including capacity development of the communities; mapping capacity gaps at health facilities.

Justus Chelangat

Justus is from Uganda, but currently resides in Malawi. A social scientist and with his Master’s in Public Health Leadership from Uganda Christian University, he founded KAPNASO (Kapchorwa Network of AIDS) service organization in eastern Uganda, which fights HIV/AIDS and genital mutilation- promote Women’s Health and Rights. He is experienced in programming development projects, HIV/AIDS, Reproductive Health and rights, Project planning, proposal writing, resource mobilization, participatory needs identification, strategic planning, research, monitoring and reporting. He volunteers with VSO international.

Lylin Aguas

Lylin Aguas is from the Philippines. Armed with an educational background in Economics, Lylin works in Financial Services. Currently, Lylin is the Vice President of the Regional Loans and Credit Operations Division at Philippines National Bank, Philippines. Lylin believes that Deltawomen gives her an opportunity not only to express herself on issues that she find to be very socially relevant but more importantly, provides the forum for her to be a voice to the millions of voiceless who need to be heard. 

Pricilla Nakyazze

Pricilla Nakyazze holds a Bachelor of social Science with a concentration in gender and social administration from Makerere University. Priccy, as she is known, is currently employed by PC Medics, a computer firm, as an Administrator. Despite being involved in administrative responsibilities, Priccy does not confine her interests to administrative work. Her core research interests include the likes of gender issues, social work and related matters, business, development and related issues.

Sara Hasan

Sara is currently pursuing her Masters in Conflict Analysis and Peacebuilding from the Nelson Mandela Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution, Jamia Milia Islamia in New Delhi, India. With her undergraduate degree in Journalism from the University of Delhi, Sara also participated in the State Department program on New Media and Democracy. She has interned in civil society organisations in India and in the United States. She has worked with leading newsprints, government organisations and has also done advocacy for a social movement called the ‘Safai Karmchari Andolan’.

Tania Sebastian

Tania is an Advocate enrolled based out of Delhi, with a Post Graduate degree in Intellectual Property Rights. Presently, Tania is the Legal Advisor for the Indian Social Institute, an NGO run by Jesuits in Delhi. Previously, she has worked as a Law Researcher for the Delhi Judicial Academy. Tania has nearly 3 years of extensive practice experience in Labour and related matters before the Supreme Court of India, the High Court of Delhi and Labour Courts as well as the Central Administrative Tribunals. Tania has several international and national publications on several topics.