Fòs Feminista
Giselle Carino has a strong background in international women's health advocacy and nonprofit management. Giselle is currently the Chief Executive Officer of Fòs Feminista, a position they have held since April 2016. Prior to that, they served as the Deputy Director of Fòs Feminista from March 2015 to March 2016. Giselle also has experience in program management, having served as the Director of Programs at the International Planned Parenthood Federation/Western Hemisphere Region from 2010 to 2014. Earlier in their career, they worked as a Program Associate at the Inter-American Parliamentary Group on Population and Development from 2000 to 2003.
Giselle Carino holds a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science and International Relations from Universidad del Salvador. Giselle also completed an International Exchange Program in Business Administration and Management at the State University of New York at Plattsburgh. Giselle further pursued their education with a Master's Degree in Public Policy and Non For Profit Management from New York University, Wagner School of Public Service.
Fòs Feminista
Fòs Feminista is as an intersectional feminist organization centered around the sexual and reproductive rights and needs of women, girls, and gender-diverse people. Led and governed by the South, Fòs Feminista works with a growing ecosystem of organizations in 35+ countries to provide access to sexual and reproductive health care and to advocate for the sexual and reproductive justice of women, girls, and gender-diverse people to be protected and respected in every dimension of their lives. We recognize that the ability to make free and informed choices about sexual and reproductive health, including to access to safe and legal abortion, is central to their life plans and to achieving sexual and reproductive justice. In 2020, Fòs Feminista undertook a bold process to redefine itself as an anti-racist, anti-ableist, decolonial, and intersectional feminist organization. This transformation laid the foundations for the formation in June 2021 of a new feminist alliance that brings together the work of the International Women’s Health Coalition (IWHC) and the Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE) under the leadership of Fòs Feminista. Fòs Feminista is integrating the expertise of each organization, bringing together sexual and reproductive health care and education, advocacy for gender and reproductive justice, and trust-based grantmaking to grassroots activists and organizations. The launch of this exciting new feminist alliance will maximize the collective impact of these organizations at a time when the world needs diversity in leadership and an unapologetically feminist voice for sexual and reproductive health and rights in global spaces.