About Us
Numun Fund is a groundbreaking initiative that aims to seed, resource, and sustain a feminist technology ecosystem.
Numun Fund was germinated in June 2020 through conversations, strategising and planning across distances. It was built on shared commitment and growing trust between its founding team members, and the confluence of advocacy on resourcing feminist tech.
The global lockdowns caused by the COVID-19 pandemic made clear that digital infrastructure and tools are critical for social movements. It provided the context, momentum and opportunity to pool together years of philanthropic advocacy and movement activism to seed the idea of a dedicated fund for feminist tech organising, in and led by the Larger World.
Numun is the Sumerian word for “seed” and honors the fact that art, music, literature, science, and technology have flourished across the world, and have been led by communities in the Global South throughout history.
Our People
Founder team
Strategic
Thought
Partners
Accountability Council
The Accountability Council is a key peer accountability and oversight body to ensure that Numun Fund fulfills its mission, lives up to its feminist values, and adheres to performance, fiduciary, financial, and other legal requirements. Members will serve as volunteers, in terms of 2 years (2022- 2024).
Vinita Sahasranaman
India
Xeenarh Mohammed
Nigeria
Alexandra
Garita
Mexico / USA
Leila
Hessini
Algeria / USA
Our Team
Jac sm Kee
Co-founder & Cartographer (Malaysia)
Jan Moolman
Co-Cartographer (South Africa)
Karen D’Mello
Organisational Choreographer (India)
kathleen azali
Tech Weaver (Indonesia)
Laura Aristizábal
Programmes Weaver (Colombia)
Lulú V. Barrera
Conversations Grower (Mexico)
Sheila Mulli
Programmes Weaver (Kenya)
Syar S Alia
Info & Knowledge Systems Choreographer (Malaysia)
Grantmaking Design Circle
The Grantmaking Design Circle is a group made up of members in our movement ecosystem that helps us to shape and help implement Numun Fund’s grantmaking. The group consists of activists and practitioners in feminist tech, technology and human rights, women’s funds and intersectional feminist and social justice movements.
Paz Peña
independent consultant and activist on technologies, feminism, and social justice (Chile)
Srinidhi Raghavan
disabled feminist, writer, researcher and trainer (India)
Caroline Kouassiaman
queer, bilingual, African feminist who works for a world where LGBTQI persons have the opportunity, autonomy and resources to live full, healthy and violence-free lives on their own terms (West Africa)
Zara Rahman
researcher and writer whose interests lie at the intersection of power, technology and justice (Germany)
Nadine Moawad
feminist activist (Lebanon)
Salome Chagelishvili
feminist activist devoted to social and gender justice (Georgia)
Isabella Marambanadzo
feminist activist and organiser who is comfortable in diverse cultural contexts (Zimbabwe)
Constellation of Collaborators
Numun Fund nurtures and is grown from shared activism, generosity of insight and support from a constellation of collaborators. This includes both formal and informal collaborations, and whose engagement are critical in how we continue to develop and grow. They include:
Cheekay Cinco
Strategic tech facilitator and advisor (Phillipines)
Sofia Karakaidou
Founding team women’s funds networking collaborator (Portugal/ United Kingdom)
Renata Affonso
Founding team resource mobilisation strategic collaborator (Brazil/Netherlands)
Ruby Amelia Johnson
Feminist participatory grantmaking advisor (Australia/Mexico)
Devi Leiper O’Malley
Strategic blueprint facilitator ( Cambodia / USA)
Jessica Horn
Feminist grantmaking strategy thought partner (United Kingdom)
Adele Vrana
Whose Knowledge? Organisational and knowledge building thought partner (Brazil, USA)
Gloria Peña
Ops connective tissue with Women Win (El Salvador/Netherlands)
APC Women’s Rights Programme
Larger-world led feminist tech organisational thought partner