Board Members

Kiran Kaur Dhanda

Kiran began her journey with Amina in 2013 as a helpline and VAWG volunteer, having since been employed by Amina for a period of three years and returning now to ...
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Dr Iram Naz

Dr Iram Naz is a General practitioner in Glasgow with a special interset in Women's health. She originally hails from Lahore, Pakistan and has been affiliated with NHS for the ...
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Adeola Akisanya-Ali – Secretary

Adeola joined as a board member in 2020. She first learned about Amina groups whilst she was at university in Glasgow. She is passionate about BAME engagement and inclusivity in ...
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Ellie Henderson

Ellie is a Scotland-based Management Consultant working in the Digital Sector. Ellie holds a LLM Masters in Law and a first class degree in Accounting and Finance and has previously ...
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Aziza Khand – Vice Chair

Aziza Khand is a founding member of Amina starting with setting up a steering group and organising a conference to explore the needs of Muslim Women in 1995 to work ...
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Jamilah Hassan Adewunmi is a Glasgow-based freelance-journalist and a writer with interest in women, children, community and social issues. Over the last 8 years, she has served on the board ...
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Zerqa Yousaf

Zerqa is a is a writer (pen name Maryam) who focuses her pieces on the issues that affect the Muslims of today. Her writings have already made a wave of ...
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Angela Voulgari

For over 10 years, Angela has worked in the area of women’s rights, domestic abuse and honour-based violence in Scotland. Throughout this time she worked collaboratively with Amina MWRC to ...
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Safeena Rashid

Safeena is one of our Edinburgh based board members. She first became involved with Amina MWRC when she was at university in the capacity of doing sessional work in Edinburgh ...
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Nelum Zafar – Treasurer

Nelum joined AMINA at the beginning of this year. She is an ACCA qualified Accountant. She is a Corporate Accounting Manager in the hospitality sector. She has been involved in ...
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Sarah Todd – Board Chair

Sarah Todd has been involved with Amina in a variety of capacities since 2014 and is currently the Chairperson. She holds an MA in Social Science from the University of ...
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