Originally from Brazil, she has experience with local governance, public policy and consultancy, and later engaged with global inequalities topics and multispecies research. She contributes to the work of Safe Passage Fund by supporting our operational processes. She is especially passionate about decolonial structures and thinking, and often reflects on this while exploring a new knitting project.

Emmy is a grassroots organiser based in Berlin, Germany -- she is deeply passionate about increasing our collective power for systemic change, both in our social movements and in philanthropy. She has stewarded Safe Passage Fund's transition into institutional philanthropy since 2023, leading on public advocacy, strategic development, and facilitating participatory grantmaking processes. Emmy is also an Advisory Board Member of Radical Ecology, a UK cultural organisation working at the intersection of environmental action and racial justice, and a mentor at Oxford University's Graduate Horizons program for displaced students.

Philippa is a grantmaker and human rights advocate with nearly ten years of experience at the intersections of migrant and labour rights, women’s rights, and economic justice. They have supported grassroots activists, human rights defenders, NGOs, unions, and cross-regional networks across Asia, the Middle East, and Europe. Philippa is passionate about reimagining philanthropy — shifting power, liberating resources, and enabling those most affected by injustice to lead the change. Outside of work, Philippa can usually be found cuddling her two rescue cats or off on a long walk somewhere.‍

She is a Filipina-Canadian campaigner and communication with over 15 years of experience from grassroots movements to non-profits, such as CARE and Amnesty International. As a storyteller and filmmaker, she engages with questions of intergenerational activism, resistance, and the ways stories are carried across time. Innah is currently based in Berlin, where she organizes with ALPAS Pilipinas, a Filipinx migrant-led organisation.

She is currently working in the German parliament and has a background in civil search and rescue in the Central Mediterranean. She previously was an activist council member at Safe Passage Fund, representing Civilfleet-Support e.V., and was spokesperson for Sea-Watch. She has worked on freedom of information campaigns at FragDenStaat, and on peace-building efforts in Ukraine at Greenpeace. Across her roles, she has always remained actively engaged in migration policy.

Her thematic focus lies on border externalisation policies by the EU, including migration movements in North Africa and the Central Mediterranean. She is a member of Watch the Med - Alarm Phone, a self-organised hotline support by activist networks in Europe and North Africa for displaced people in distress at sea. Alarmphone is assisted, embraced, and encouraged by those with lived experience of displacement.

She was the project manager of Safe Passage Fund from March 2020-2023, and is currently a consultant offering structural and political input. She continues to believe in the funds vision and power to contribute to sustainable and systemic change. Currently, she works at the civil search and rescue organisation Sea-Watch which offers life-saving support in the Central Mediterranean. ‍If she had to name her superpower, it would definitely be having the loudest voice in chants on demonstrations.