Remie Abi-Farrage, Canada

Remie Abi-Farrage, Canada

Remie Abi-Farrage is a Senior Program Officer in the Global Programs at the Equality Fund. Prior to joining Equality Fund, Remie was youth focal point at Oxfam in Palestine and a Youth Project Coordinator for Search for Common Ground in Lebanon. Remie supports the organizations’ grant making and partner accompaniment strategies with their global partners. Remie is deeply connected to feminist and youth movements globally, with valuable local and international experience on human rights philanthropy, advocacy, programming and social justice organizing. Committed to social justice and ensuring citizens, specifically young people, are at the heart her work, Remie believes in shifting power through flexible core funding and respecting the autonomy and work of local organizations and groups, as main implementers, while donor organizations act as facilitators.