Monique Wilson

Monique Wilson is an international theatre actress, director, educator, and activist from the Philippines. She is the Artistic Director and Founder of the New Voice Company (Philippines), producing

political theatre work. She also produced Eve Ensler’s “The Vagina Monologues” around Asia since 2000, helping change laws on sex trafficking/domestic violence in the Philippines with performances in the Senate and Congress.

Nasheeba Selim

Ms. Nasheeba Selim is currently working as the Social Development and Gender Specialist in the Bangladesh Resident Mission, ADB. In the past, she has worked with UNDP Bangladesh and been directly involved in the administration of the Chittagong Hill Tracts Development Facility where she worked closely with disadvantaged ethnic minorities groups. Her areas of specialization include gender relations and equality, women's empowerment, mainstreaming gender in sectoral programs, violence against women, sex work and human rights, early marriage and feminization of poverty.