Volunteers / Interns
WGNRR has offices in Manila, Philippines and Amsterdam, the Netherlands. We have volunteering opportunities from time to time for those who are interested in working with us.
To support youth activists and to encourage an exchange of knowledge, WGNRR runs an internship programme at the Manila office. We bring members and allies with suitable experience to the office, where they function as Programme Associates, working as part of the WGNRR team.
You may contact our Programme Associates and Interns with any WGNRR related queries.
Beatriz Sotomayor, Programme Associate, Chile (beatriz@wgnrr.org)
Beatriz joined WGNRR in September 2011 as a Programme Associate. She works in networking and communications in Spanish, although she collaborates with communications in English as well. She works from Latin America with several SRHR groups and networks with the objective to strengthen advocacy in the region.
Beatriz holds a psychology degree, and in Chile has been involved with feminist collectives in several projects of incidence in popular culture. She keeps a very popular blog on feminism: feministasfeas.blogspot.com.
She speaks English and Spanish fluently.
Tara Paterson, Canada (tara@wgnrr.org)
Tara is a student activist from Winnipeg, Canada (Cree Territory). An experienced community organizer, she is currently the Student and Youth Representative for The Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada (ARCC), Canada’s only nation-wide political pro-choice group. Through ARCC, Tara also coordinates the Student and Youth Reproductive Justice Network, an online forum that provides resources and tools to young organizers. Prior to joining the WGNRR team, Tara worked at the Dawson Women’s Shelter in the Yukon Territory, providing support and advocacy for women and families in crisis. Tara is in her fourth year of an honours degree in Political Science and Women’s Studies at the University of Victoria where she completed a community-based research project on youth engagement in the politics of reproductive justice in 2011 and co-founded the campus club, Students for Reproductive Justice in 2010. Earlier this year, Tara was awarded the Canadian Women’s Studies Association Undergraduate Essay Prize for her paper entitled Choice By Any Other Name: The Abortion Art Controversy and the Limits of Liberalism. While in Victoria, Tara volunteers locally at the Anti-Violence Project: UVic’s On-Campus Sexual Assault Center and AIDS Vancouver Island.In addition to reproductive justice and violence prevention, Tara is passionate about climate justice, poverty reduction, anti-racism, accessible education and queer and trans* rights.
The availability of volunteering opportunities is dependent on ongoing programmes and projects. Please e-mail your CV and a cover letter detailing your interests, experience and specifying which office and programme you are most interested in, to office@wgnrr.org.
You may also check our Jobs & Opportunities page for any vacancies you may be interested in.
