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

Employment Rights Advocacy Officer
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.
Ericka Regalado

Community Engagement Officer
Ericka supports SEEAC’s community projects and outreach efforts. She has worked with NGOs advocating for migrant domestic workers’ labour and maternity rights in Hong Kong. Acting on her ethos of bridging communities together, she co-founded a community engagement project, organising dialogue sessions and creative art workshops that centred ethnic minority voices. Having just completed her LLM in International Human Rights Law, she looks forward to working alongside communities and advocating for migrant rights in the UK.
Florence Yilmaz

Freelance Bookkeeper
Florence provides freelance bookkeeping assistance to SEEAC. She is also 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.
Julia Thanh

Partnership Development Manager
Julia leads SEEAC's partnership and development efforts with a commitment to fostering impactful collaborations. Julia has a background working in educational institutions over the past 10 years in the UK, Senegal and Vietnam. She is consistently, and proudly, working towards her mission of working with purpose-driven organisations. Over the years, she has served as Chairperson to the Vietnamese Family Partnership and currently providing cultural consulting to the Museum of the Home.
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.
Niken Wulan

Welfare Support Officer
Niken provides comprehensive casework and delivers welfare, mental health, and hate crime-related services at SEEAC. She supports Southeast and East Asian migrants who have experienced domestic abuse, trafficking, homelessness, and destitution due to socio-economic exclusion and the marginalization of migrants in the UK. Prior to completing her Master's degree in the UK in 2022, Niken accumulated over six years of experience working with migrant organizations, the United Nations, and trade unions in Indonesia and Hong Kong.
Nova Fransisca Silitonga

Deputy Executive Director/ 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.
Turath Alsaraf

Operations & Finance Manager
T looks after all operations and finances at SEEAC. With nearly 30 years of expertise in business transformation, T specialises in organisational design, operational frameworks, and driving efficiency to cultivate high-performing teams. Beginning her career in the entertainment industry with leading music, TV, and film brands, T has since worked extensively with charities and non-profits, helping them enhance operational efficiency, establish scalable frameworks, foster engaged teams, and build systems designed for the future.
Shuhan Lin

Freelance Communication Consultant
Shuhan provides freelance communication plan implementation and external engagement assistance to SEEAC. Her experience includes research, campaign development, and advocacy for migrant workers, refugees, and asylum seekers across the UK, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia.

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.