Buddhist Nun, Author, Public speaker, and religious leader Sayalay Ketumala was born in Mudon Township, Mon State, Myanmar. She has completed government high school in Mudon and received a monastic education at Pa-auk Monastery in Mon State, Myanmar. She received a Bachelor of Arts from Buddhist an...

Founder and Director of Generation Tree, Myanmar As a representative of a minority community in Myanmar, Swe Mar Oo was exposed early on to people from diverse religious and ethnic backgrounds. Today, she is the Founder and Director of Generation Tree, a Yangon-based NGO which promotes diversity a...

Trainer, the Institute for Political and Civic Education on pluralism, transitional justice and community development Thet Naing Oo has served as a volunteer at the Mandalay Catholic Youth Commission since 2012 and continued to serve as a youth president from 2015 to April 2018. At the same time, h...

Tin Ma Ma Htet “Tess” is leading the Sayarma Foundation that provides technical support to schools in Myanmar. She is a teaching specialist with more than a decade of experience and a certified professional coach. Tess worked for the monastic education system, with out-of-school children...

Tin Maung Htwe is a program Manager of Center for Diversity and National Harmony.  He also serves as a Board Director of New Myanmar Foundation for the advocacy and Part Time lecture of politics of Myanmar Institute of Theology. Mainly focusing on human rights, governance, and advocacy, he contribu...

Ven Acinna is a Buddhist monk from Myanmar. He is studying for his doctorate at Postgraduate Institute of Buddhist and Pali Studies, University of Kelaniya in Sri Lanka. He received his L.L.B from Yangon University in 2004 and his M.A (Buddhist Studies) from Buddhist and Pali University of Sri Lank...

The Venerable Esika Zawti was born in 1981 in a village in rural Myanmar. He received his monastic education in Buddha’s teaching in the town of Myingyan, Mandalay, Pyay (Prome) and Yangon and received the Sasanadhaja Dhammacariya degree, and in 2005, continued his studies at Sampurnanand Sanskrit...