For immediate release
3 June 2025
The Board of Directors of the Women in Migration Network (WIMN) is pleased to announce that Roula Seghaier has been selected as WIMN’s new International Coordinator. She assumes this role immediately.
Roula brings a depth of experience in migrant rights and feminist organizing and advocacy, as well as organizational management. She most recently served as Strategic Program Coordinator for the International Domestic Workers Federation (IDWF), a WIMN member organization and a global union federation. Her organizing work encompasses both the Southwest Asian and North African (SWANA) region, where she worked with migrant domestic workers in the region and engaged globally.
“WIMN is at an exciting juncture as we transition from the founders to an International Coordinator,” said Helena Olea of Alianza Americas and a member of WIMN’s Executive Committee. “WIMN is building on a successful Feminist Forum on Migration & Displacement, which gathered grassroots women in migration to contribute towards a bottom-up feminist migration policy. This is a time of consolidation and growth for us, and we are confident that Roula will help to strengthen grassroots leadership and enhance WIMN’s active presence in international policy spaces.”
On her new role, Roula commented, “WIMN’s ethos and mission has resonated with me as I have witnessed WIMN’s praxis, allyship, and community building. Living as a migrant during my adulthood in multiple localities attuned my senses to recognize honest effort, courage, and the ‘metal’ of individuals and organizations pursuing migrant justice. I am invested in the sustainability of WIMN and I want to see it thrive.”
Roula is familiar to many within WIMN’s arena of work. She authored WIMN’s 2025 Beijing+30 Report, 30 years since Beijing: Women in migration still seek inclusion in the Gender Equity and Equality Agenda. She was an inspiring speaker at the 2023 Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) International Women’s Day rally and represented WIMN at the 2025 CSW side event, Advancing the rights protections of migrant women and girls over the next 30 years.
Roula takes up her role as International Coordinator as two of WIMN’s founding members and co-conveners step down from those positions. Carol Barton will transition from her role at the end of this month, while Catherine Tactaquin stepped down as a co-convener in December 2024.
You can read more about Roula’s background and accomplishments here. She can be reached at segahier.roula@womeninmigration.org.
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Founded in 2012, WIMN is an intersectional feminist network that promotes human rights-based and feminist global migration policies in an era dominated by economic, social and political inequities and hostile systems towards people in migration. We center the experiences, voices and agency of all women in migration as essential changemakers on the road to a more just world.
To learn more about WIMN, see our website.
For more information, contact:
Catherine Tactaquin, tactaquin.catherine@womeninmigration.org
Tina Girmay, tbg27@georgetown.edu