Our Team

Staff

Dianne Magbanua

Information & Communication Officer
Dianne produces and strategises SEEAC’s traditional and online communication content. She has years of experience as a journalist and producer for a media network in the Philippines.
Edgar, Jr. Baylon

Project and Campaign Coordinator
Edgar is the Project and Campaign Coordinator working on projects aimed to support ESEA migrants and refugees with their employabilities and employment-related issues, helping develop a network to educate themselves around labour rights and labour exploitation issues and agitate for political change to improve the situations. Edgar is a qualified lawyer from the Philippines. He is currently taking his postgraduate at the University of London’s Master of Laws programme. He had experience providing pro bono service in the Integrated Bar of the Philippines Legal Aid Service for indigent clients and worked alongside NGOs that support marginalized women and children.
Florence Yilmaz

Bookkeeper
Florence is the part-time bookkeeper of SEEAC and Kanlungan Filipino Consortium. She is also the treasurer of Bahay Kubo Housing Association and a member of Filipino Domestic Works Association UK. She is an accounting graduate from the Philippines and an ongoing Level 4 AAT student in the UK. She has years of experience working as bookkeeper in various NGOs in the Philippines.
Khanh Tran

As a Research Officer at SEEAC, Khanh works on projects designed to assist ESEA migrants and refugees with employment rights and combating exploitation. Her career prior to SEEAC spanned diverse fields, including war history, think tanks and civil societies, and higher education. Khanh holds a BA in Philosophy, International and Economic Studies from Università Ca'Foscari Venezia, graduating with the highest honors. She is currently furthering her education with an MSc in Computing and Information Systems from Queen Mary University of London.
Khanh is particularly focused on leveraging her analytical skills to devise innovative solutions to social issues, believing strongly in the power of data and technology as tools for societal improvement.
Mariko Hayashi

Executive Director (Secretary, Board of Directors)
Mariko is responsible for strategising and developing the work of SEEAC and manages the staff and volunteer team. She has over a decade of experience in project management, community organising, research and advocacy around migration and various human rights issues in the UK, Japan and several other East and Southeast Asian countries.
Nova Fransisca Silitonga

Programme Manager
Nova leads the Community Hub project while also involves in other SEEAC’s projects. She brings more than a decade of community-based project management experience within international and multilateral development agencies based in Indonesia.
Shuhan Lin

Information & Communication Officer
Shuhan manages the digital marketing and presence of SEEAC on media. She is experienced in advocating for and researching into refugees and migrants in the UK and ESEA.

Board of Directors

Jihea Kim

Board Diector
Following the provision of pro bono consulting services to SEEAC, Jihea was invited to sit on the Board where she is responsible for strategic decision-making. Jihea is a Sustainability & Climate Change Consultant at PwC, specialising in responsible investing. She has an undergraduate degree in Management from The London School of Economics and a Business masters from Warwick Business School. Jihea is particularly passionate about human rights, racial justice, and the intersection of environmental issues and social issues.
Kimi Jolly

Board Director (Treasurer)
Kimi is a community organiser and human rights campaigner. She is the founder and board director / project manager of East and Southeast Asian Scotland (ESA Scotland). She takes a human rights based approach to her race equality work and emphasises cultural sensitivity to achieve meaningful engagement with the community.
Sarah Yeh

Board Director
Sarah is an award winning Chinese/Vietnamese advertising creative director. She has long advocated for the East and South East community, in particular, with her pioneering project, Dimsum.co.uk, the award winning online community magazine for the Chinese diaspora, from 2000-2010. She features internationally, mostly recently in the BBC documentary 'A Very British History – The British Chinese'.
She has been a trustee for several ESEA organisations, including Yellow Earth Theatre and HCCS for 5 years, as treasurer and secretary, and won the bid for the Good Growth Fund. She is now excited to join the SEEAC team and support the community further.
Susan Cueva

Board Director (Chair)
Susan is one of the founders and currently a trustee at Kanlungan Filipino Consortium. She is also a Trustee at the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI) and one of the founders and Directors of Alaga Kita CIC, a social enterprise set up by Filipino grassroots organisations. For many years Susan worked as a trade union officer, organising vulnerable migrants and refugees, in the UK and in the Philippines. She has a post-graduate degree in Economics from the London School of Economics.
Tony Nguyen

Board Director
Tony is a dual-qualified solicitor in England & Wales and Vietnam, and has nearly two decades of experience in corporate, dispute resolution and immigration laws. He has also been involved in many non-for-profit community organisations in the UK and Vietnam, and recently been appointed as the chairman of the Nails Viet Association in the UK.