Our globally distributed team is made up of full-time and part-time staff, contractors and volunteers. Our expertise ranges from mental health care to design, research and technology. These are our staff members.

Hera Hussain (she/her) Founder and CEO Hera has over a decade of experience supporting survivors. Born in Scotland, raised in Pakistan and living in the UK, Hera knew from early on she wanted to empower women. Hera was on the Forbes 30 Under 30 and MIT Technology Review’s Innovators Under 35 list and was awarded the British Empire Medal by Her Majesty the Queen. Hera speaks English, Urdu, and Punjabi.

Eva Blum-Dumontet (she/her) Head of Movement Building and Policy Eva is a policy expert who has been working on technology, gender and human rights for over ten years. Prior to joining Chayn, she worked as a Senior Policy Adviser at the Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of sciences, where she covered issues related to the use of AI in scientific research. She previously worked for eight years as a Senior Researcher at Privacy International, where she authored investigations, reports and numerous articles on the intersection of gender, privacy, and technology and built bridges between organisations working on gender issues and organisations working on digital rights. Her work there included a widely-covered investigation exposing the data sharing practices of menstruation apps.

Nadine Krish Spencer (she/her) ****Head of Product and Experience Nadine spent the first decade of her career working with tech startups. Initially in London, supporting the growth of seed-stage companies, and later in Barcelona working within a series of commercial, hypergrowth environments. Before joining Chayn, she spent some time freelancing on Tech for Good projects in the mental health space. Namely an online toolkit to support recovery for people dependent on alcohol, and a trauma-informed intake and triaging tool designed to make it easier for those suffering with their mental health to describe their experiences. A born and bred North Londoner, she now lives in Barcelona and speaks English, Spanish and Catalan.

Manpreet Dillon (she/her) Director of Operations Manpreet Dhillon is a passionate advocate for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) in the workplace, particularly within the realm of artificial intelligence (AI) and the Future of Work. Before joining Chayn, with over 20 years of experience in HR and DE&I, she founded Veza Global to empower organizations across government, tech, non-profit, and the UN to build more equitable and inclusive workplaces. Manpreet's leadership journey encompasses coaching, HR, change management, internal audits, and community development. She brings a unique perspective as a settler in Canada, born to Indian immigrants, and living with an invisible disability. This lived experience fuels her commitment to systemic change that dismantles institutionalized inequalities and ensures authentic representation.

Francesca Jarvis (she/her) ****Head of Survivor Services Lead Francesca joined Chayn as the Survivor Services Lead in 2022, and has nearly ten years experience in frontline sexual violence work, and around three years experience working with children and young people. She has an array of experience supporting survivors around and through the criminal legal system in England, managing teams of frontline workers, and developing and project managing frontline service delivery. Francesca also has some experience in community accountability, and is particularly interested in relational work, participatory and collaborative practices, and ways of being accountable for and transforming harm. She speaks English and is learning Spanish very slowly! Francesca grew up in the UK and lives in London.

Ellie Re-em (she/her) ****Full Stack Engineer

Ellie did a software engineering short course in her early 20s and has been working as an engineer ever since. She worked in a few different industries such as green energy, gardening industry and at charitable foundations like the Wellcome Trust. She used to speak Chinese as a child but unfortunately has forgotten most of it and these days only speaks English. Currently, she is working on developing the Bloom platform and maintaining Chayn’s tech services.

Janice Levenhagen (she/her) Operations xx

Debbie (she/her) Finance Manager xx

Charné (she/her) ****Head of Survivor Services Lead xx