Rania is a dynamic community organizer who has significant experience in communications and branding strategy, community development, organizational leadership, project management, international non-profit grassroots fundraising, and customer experience strategy. A native of Sudan, she is fluent in Arabic and passionate about empowering women where it all starts: at home.

She met Ailey Hughes in 2019 and learned about women’s lands rights issues while working at a public benefit land titles meets blockchain start-up.

She holds a Master of Business Administration from Stanford University Graduate School of Business and a Bachelor of Science in Science, Technology and Society from Stanford University.

Ailey Kaiser Hughes is a senior program leader, strategic planner, and international development professional with over 15 years of global experience in Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Ghana, India, Japan, Liberia, Mexico, Mozambique, Rwanda, Zambia, and the USA.

Ailey met Amanda in 2014 working in the women’s land rights space and have co-authored research on land-and-gender-based-violence.

Ailey has worked in the land sector since 2009, with expertise in women’s land rights, customary land rights, systematic land titling, land administration, and technology. Ailey has a Master of Public Administration from the University of Washington and was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to Kyrgyzstan.

Amanda Richardson is the founder of Resource Equity, a U.S.-based international nonprofit that advances women’s rights to land and natural resources. Amanda is a gender and land tenure expert with more than a decade of experience in research, program design and analysis, project management, and public policy. She has experience working on the intersections between women’s land rights and gender-based violence, food security, nutrition, HIV/AIDS, corruption, climate change, investments, and empowerment.

She has extensive teaching and presentation experience, and has worked in Ghana, India, Kenya, Kosovo, Liberia, Nepal, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, and the United States. She holds a law degree from Columbia Law School and a Bachelor of Arts in English from Amherst College.