Our team

OUR TEAM

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We are a team of 60+ volunteers and staff who coordinate youth participation at the global, regional, and thematic level for all migration issues.

OUR EXECUTIVE TEAM

Alicja Lelwic-Ojeda

Co-Director

Florencio Venté

Co-Director

Milena Franke

Executive Team

Aryan Sanghrajka

Executive Team

OUR THEMATIC LEADS

Josefina Etchenique

GFMD Co-Lead

Franchesca Regala

GFMD Co-Lead

Anastasiia Tyukhtina

Communications Co-Lead

Hector Poveda

Climate Mobility Lead

Victoria Zagitova

Communications Co-Lead

Marc Tilley

Forced Migration Lead

Yasmein Abdelghany

Education Lead

Srihari Govind

Health Lead

Chiara Moslow

Local Governments Lead

OUR REGIONAL LEADS

LATAM Regional Lead

Jesús Mauricio Pahuara Arango

Asia-Pacific Regional Co-Lead

Aidan Luchs

Asia-Pacific Regional Co-Lead

Vinkha Khairunnisa

North America Regional Lead

Moreen Gorial

Europe Regional Lead

Aleksandra Novovic-Mendez

MENA Regional Lead

Khadija Amahal

OUR THEMATIC SPECIALISTS

Yasmina Benslimane

Gender Advisor

Ishaan Shah

Human Trafficking Advisor

Srihari Govind

Business Development/Grant Advisor

Alankrita Dayal

Data Advisor

Victoria Kulesza

M&E Advisor

Erika Mesa

Generalist

OUR ADVISORY BOARD

Marta Verani

Board Member

Camila Batista

Board Member​

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Uma Gupta

Major Group for Children and Youth & MYCP

MYCP is part of the Major Group for Children and Youth (MGCY) – the official, formal and self-organised space for children and youth (aged below 30) to contribute to and engage in certain intergovernmental and allied policy processes at the UN since 1992. Our mission is to bridge children and youth and the UN system, with a focus on migration issues, in order to ensure that their right to meaningful participation is realised. We do so by engaging children and youth entities in formal and informal forms in the design, implementation, monitoring, follow-up and review of sustainable development policies at all levels in four areas: Policy & Advocacy, Capacity Building, Youth Action and Knowledge.

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Marta Verani

Global Focal Point

Marta is the senior Global Focal Point for MYCP, where she has served for the past 3 years. She took this role after her mandate as Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD) Focal Point, in which she led and chaired the 2nd Migration Youth Forum at the GFMD in Quito 2020. Her professional background is in international development, having worked in social entrepreneurship and community development in Latin America, and on the 2030 Agenda at UN DESA and at UNODC Bolivia. She holds an MSc from the London School of Economics in Development Management and Anthropology and a BA from the University of Sussex.

Camila Batista

Board Member​

Camila has been working with marginalized communities and women’s empowerment for more than 10 years. She is COO at Migraflix, a social startup that promotes the economic inclusion of refugees and immigrants by promoting cultural entrepreneurship. As women’s rights activist, she has experience at CEDAW Committee/UN and a master in “Access to Justice for women living in poverty”. At the MYCP, in 2020/21 she led the 3rd Migration Youth Forum and co-led with Marta Verani the formalization of the group’s work with the GFMD Steering Group. She is a fellow at the BMW Foundation and was awarded by the UNAOC as one of the “150 youth voices of tomorrow”.

Alicja Lelwic

Social and Economic Integration Lead

As an international development professional, Alicja manages projects focusing on socioeconomic development on behalf of the UK FCDO and European Union in Africa, Middle East, Southeast Asia and Western Europe. Her work and research interests focus on rights-based migration governance. Alicja advised on international mobility solutions in Vietnam and the Netherlands, delivered research on the EU Mobility Partnerships and supported the African Union Commission’s migration policy development. She holds a Bachelor’s degree from Sciences Po Paris, and an MSc in Public Administration with specialisation in Governance of Migration and Diversity from Erasmus University Rotterdam. Currently Alicja is based in Chile.