Braema Mathi

Braema Mathi is a Singaporean researcher and activist. She believes in justice and tries her darnest to apply human rights to all that she gets involved in. She is the founder of NGOs Transient Workers Count Too and MARUAH (Singapore Working Group for ASEAN Human Rights Mechanism). Previously, Mathi was a Member of Parliament, a two-term President of the Association of Women for Action and Research (AWARE), and the Vice-President of Action for AIDS. She has published book chapters and articles, for both academic and non-academic audiences, and she has written reports for organizations that included think-tanks in Southeast Asia and the United Nations. She is also an award-winning journalist, who worked for the national newspaper for almost 8 years. A sought-after public speaker, she draws from her research and activism in education, journalism, healthcare, gender equality, migrant worker rights, civil-society structures, and refugees. She is currently a tutor in a tertiary institution based in Singapore.