Synergos Staff
Surita Sandosham
Surita Sandosham is Deputy Director of the Multistakeholder Partnership program. Prior to joining Synergos, she worked for The Rockefeller Foundation for six years, where as program officer of Working Communities she directed the Next Generation Leadership Program. Under Surita's direction and leadership the program succeeded in creating an active and highly diverse network of 120 leaders across sectors interested in engaging their organizations to develop solutions to major challenges of democracy, including issues of race, changing demographics, the economic divide and massive globalization.
Surita is a fellow of the founding cohort of the Next Generation Leadership program and was nominated for her work in international human rights focused on violations against women. She has more than a decade of experience working in the nonprofit sector holding senior executive positions in leading international human and civil rights organizations including Lambda Legal Defense Fund, Equality Now and Amnesty International USA.
Born and raised in Singapore, Surita holds a BA (Hons) in History and Politics from the London University, School of Oriental and African Studies. She has a postgraduate degree in law from City University, London and is a trained barrister, admitted to Gray's Inn and has practiced law in Singapore and New York.
