I started off as a volunteer for a local ngo 8 years ago and i was very inspired to work and collaborate with my own community. After volunteering for a year, I was given a part time job as an outreach worker for the Trangender community. Moving on, I was than given the opportunity to be a full-time staff as outreach worker. Within a year, I was promoted as the manager for the programme and now I am the project director for SEED Malaysia. SEED Malaysia is the first ever Trans Led Non-Government Organization in Malaysia, we educate and distribute latest information to our community in issues that relate with health, legal, capacity building, empowerment and social. We have a Drop In Centre which caters to the marginalized community here in Kuala Lumpur.
Im also one of the founder of Justice For Sister which is a grassroots campaign organized to raise public awareness about issues surrounding violence and persecution against the Mak Nyah community in Malaysia and aims to raise funds to finance court cases that have been brought up against transgenders who have been charged in Syariah court.
My expertise would be that – I look as myself as a community leader for my community and coming from the community, I understand the challenges, issues, needs and concerns faced by the community. I also see the need in empowering the community not only through welfare and social support but also through legal knowledge and self-acceptance trough the training, sessions and development programs I personally have conducted in the program.
I have represented the community in local, regional and international conferences, meetings or workshops. I have been advocating on the marginalised community here in Malaysia for the past 8 years and have been representing the community in local, regional and international for interviews in media, researches, meetings, conferences or workshops (AWID in Istanbul, Creating For Change Baltimore USA, UNAIDS consultation Africa, symposium Bangkok, Quorum at New York USA , Transgender Health Blueprint at Nepal and many others)
I have received three awards from regional and international which is the Asia LGBT Milestone Awards ( ALMAs) in Bangkok and The Prestigious Alison Des Forges award for the Extraordinary Activism by Human Rights Watch at Amsterdam and The International Women of Courage award from U.S. From the Secretary of State John Kerry. I was given a special recognition in San Diego where the mayor made 5th April 2016 as Nisha Ayub Day in San Diego.
I have also been invited as one of the 8 activist in Malaysia to have a meeting with President Obama while he was in Malaysia on December 2015 to discuss on our issues and how the US could assist on this matter from an International level.