Name: Joan Meris

Position: Global Mobilization Lead

Location: Philippines

Pronouns: She/Her

Joan is a skilled facilitator with passion for co-creating campaign designs and strengthening capacities of her communities of practices. For the last 19 years, she has been working with grassroots communities, academic institutions, development organizations and nonprofits that honed her drive for collaborative change-making. Having worked with volunteers shaped her leadership ethos, which is leading by example.

Before joining FIA, Joan worked with Greenpeace International to ensure that their global network delivered its engagement ambitions by providing training, support and strategic leadership. In FIA, Joan will be leading the overall strategy to build the infrastructure that will connect globally distributed and diverse local movements, organizations and grassroots groups to collaborate in mobilizing people power to fight inequality.