Pia Bruce, Executive Director

Before joining UNIFEM as General Manager, Pia Bruce, a former management consultant and Harvard Kennedy School of Government graduate, was on the founding team of aidha. aidha is a 'business school' for migrant domestic workers in Singapore, providing financial education along with entrepreneurship, confidence building, computer training as well as supporting services like business plan counselling and microfinance connections.

Prior to joining aidha, Pia managed the then Citigroup-INSEAD Financial Education Exchange, gaining significant knowledge about financial education in the Asia Pacific region. Pia has also been involved in the design and development of an e-learning resources platform for the US K-12 school community, and has multi-country experience in corporate change management, curriculum development and train-the-trainer course implementation.

pia.bruce@unifem.org.sg

Mellisa Chong, Office Manager

Graduating with a Diploma in Economics under the University of London programme and having become an active alumni member, she has, apart from studying the macroeconomic elements that drive an economy, come to realise the power and deep potential within our "micro" economy - i.e. our youth, especially among the youth at risk, the marginalized and the exploited.

She holds an unwaivering stand that all children own the right, to first and foremost, a quality education and the right to choose their dreams and the oppurtunities to pursue them.

Having volunteered with The Society for The Physically Disabled, bringing the "world out there" into their little classrooms, she has captivated and inspired those within her group to feel no differently to their "abled bodied" counterparts. She has also made it part of her vacation routine to visit an orphanage in every country she visits, volunteering not only to spend time with the children but also the administrators who strive daily to meet funding and and manpower requirements.

Mellisa loves a good laugh and always up for a good time!

mellisa.chong@unifem.org.sg

Camilla Adindamaulani, Communications and Project Developments Manager

After more than five years of working in the communication field of the corporate world, Camilla decided to pursue her long time passion of working for a non-profit organization and joined UNIFEM Singapore in February 2010. With her public relations consultancy experience, she's assigned to manage the Stop sex trafficking campaign where she developed the integrated marketing communication plan for the year and drive the preparation for the first national forum to address sex trafficking issue in Singapore.

She's also in charge of the membership portfolio's day-to-day operation and expands the pool of UNIFEM Singapore merchant partners for the recently-launched loyalty card programme.

Camilla holds a master's degree in mass communication from Nanyang Technological University. In her own time, she contributes articles for publications in her native country, Indonesia, covering the subjects of music, art and travel. The task has brought her face-to-face with personalities including Grammy-winner Kanye West and British mega-band, Coldplay.

camilla.adinda@unifem.org.sg

Mrinalini Venkatachalam, Public Awareness and Youth Initiatives Manager)

Mrinalini Venkatachalam coordinates and executes all Public Awareness activities and Youth Initiatives. Her priority is to generate awareness amongst the youth in Singapore on often neglected women's issues, such the many roles of women in society, respect for migrant women in the house, the incidence of violence against women, trafficking of women and children and other issues that affect us all, in an environment where they can so easily be forgotten due to the affluence our country enjoys.

Mrinalini did her Bachelor of Arts in Communicative English from a university in India and her Masters in Human Rights from Bangkok. She is a budding writer who loves to write and can conjure up a topic of interest with ease. She loves to read and no genre of books is beyond her horizons. Her long term goal is to work full time in the field of women's rights.

A daydreamer, all she wants is for people to see the good in others and this, she feels, will make the world an infinitely more inhabitable place.

mrinalini.venkatachalam@unifem.org.sg

Marisse Gabrielle Reyes, Fundraising and Communications Manager

Always being creative and inspired by the many layers of life, Marisse Gabrielle Reyes was initially drawn to the world of design and fashion. Writing for publications such as Harper's BAZAAR Singapore and graduating from LASALLE College of the Arts with a BA in Fashion Management, Marisse always felt there was an ungrown seed in her that wanted to sprout.

During a housing build trip with Gawad Kalinga in the Philippines over a year ago, she felt that sprout starting to grow. Here, Marisse reawakened the truth of interconnectedness and the fact that it is each person's responsibility to compassionately uplift the communities and environment in which they share the earth with. Since that experience, Marisse has delved into several NGOs in Singapore such as AWARE, Jane Goodall Institute and now UNIFEM Singapore.

Since joining UNIFEM, Marisse has taken on the UNIFEM MoneySend project and marketed it to several migrant groups from various ethnic backgrounds. And has included value added services to the program that benefit the migrant's community in Singapore and in their own countries (such as free financial talks and workshops conducted by newly signed on partner, ipac).

Marisse aspires to merge meaningful and inspired work with her daily life.

marisse.g.reyes@unifem.org.sg

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