Jirada Phetlam is a former Digital Technology Program Manager and an internal GESI (Gender Equality and Social Inclusion) chief officer for a USAID-funded regional project Digital Asia Accelerator with DAI Global, where she oversaw the development of the project's activities and provided inputs on strategic, gender-sensitive direction and vision of the project.
She also co-founded and acts as a program manager for Femnimitr, a local collective consisting of socially committed youths with a mission to drive a creative gender dialogue for policy change in Thailand. Her projects' donors include the U.S. ASEAN’s YSEALI Seeds for the Future and Prince Claus Fund. She earned a bachelor’s degree in social and cultural theories and a master’s degree in cultural management from Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok. She's currently studying MSc Gender at London School of Economics and Political Science with the Chevening Scholarships.