THE TEAM
Each member of our team brings the Kanlungan ethos to life through their own stories — these diverse backgrounds are brought together by migrants’ welfare and advocacy work, and the call for social justice.
Board of Trustees
Chairperson: Benny Clutario
Secretary: Keren Jemima Austria
Board members:
Alren Aure
Fides Dagongdong
Helen Bulusan
Patricia Miranda
Sarah Maramag
Staff Members
Christanghelo Godino
Campaigns and Advocacy Manager
During the pandemic, Christ’s work primarily focused on the COVID-19 Information Project and Vaccine Event. He later went full-time at Kanlungan, working across several roles and projects.
Christ comes from a background of student activism in the Philippines as a member of the League of Filipino Students. He jump-started the launch of Anakbayan UK, a Filipino migrant youth organisation, and continues to be part of drawing campaigns on both migrant issues and human rights issues in the Philippines.
Mizpah Lee
Mental Health Support Officer & Project Lead
Projects: Safe Haven for Southeast Asian Women (VAWG under LCF), Rise Up Women, Pathways to Settlement, Smallwood Trust Community Grant, and Enabling ESEA Community Resilience
Norwyn Crame
Casework & Advocacy Officer
Norwyn is a recent graduate from the LSE, having completed a Masters in International and Asian History with a focus on the US colonial period in the Philippines. He is also an experienced worker in the charity sector. He worked with the education charity Get Further as a tutor – and later Lead Tutor – and taught GCSE resit students in FE colleges to help them attain a passing grade in their GCSE English Language qualification. In terms of advocacy, Norwyn volunteers with the mass organisation Anakbayan UK and regularly helps organise events and discussions with the wider Filipino community in the UK as well as other solidarity organisations.
Stephanie de Castro
Communications Officer
Nanie joins the team with 14 years of experience in advertising, more recently as an Associate Creative Director for The & Partnership. She has currently completed her masters in Media, Communications, and Critical Practice at the University of the Arts in London, where her dissertation focuses on culturally-relevant dating app Bumble — and the unspoken politics (and inequalities) that surround its Travel feature.
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