Jane joined Firefly in October 2021 and has had a very distinguished career in the charity sector. She stepped down as Chief Executive of Scotland’s International Development Alliance last year, having previously held senior roles at both L’Arche and Mercy Corps. Jane read PPE at Oxford and has two Masters degrees from Edinburgh focusing on international development and peace building.

Amy is a communications and fundraising professional with experience of working with a wide range of national and international charities as well as brands and government. In previous roles Amy has worked on social media behaviour change campaigns, charity brand projects and long term strategic planning for fundraising growth.  Previous charity clients include Sue Ryder, RNIB, Unicef & Oxfam. Amy is an integrated project manager currently building Firefly’s mass fundraising capacity launching a public fundraising appeal to grow the audience base, build closer connections with our supporters and raise essential funds for the charity. 

Hi I’m Ella a fourth year student a the University of Edinburgh, studying English and Scottish Literature. Aside from uni, I was born and raised in North Leeds with two brothers and a Scottie dog called Mac. I like to keep myself busy by playing hockey, travelling, reading and spending time with my friends. I’m super excited to be involved with Firefly and especially excited to be visiting Svitac (Firefly in Bosnia) in August 2024 with Rosie.

Director of our Educational Centre for Syrian refugee children in Antakya (Turkey), Fadia has lead the centre since the project started in March 2016, recruiting staff and developing the programme to serve the needs of her local Syrian refugee community. Fadia previously taught Maths in Syria, and was a manager for a Syrian teaching institute. She has had training in disaster resilience leadership and capacity building for Syrian youth and women.

From 1999 to 2002 Gordana has managed a team of up to 13 employees, coordinated general administration, motivated and promoted group and individual work.
Gordana has also run courses in English Language for children and young people. In 2001, she coordinated a project facilitating the re-integration of children from the Roma community into Brčko schools in cooperation with the schools, UNDP and municipality.
She coordinated a multi-ethnic festival in Brčko in 1999, the first multi-ethnic event in Brčko since the war, creating the programme, choosing groups to participate, and getting OHR and Municipality approval. She has been in charge of the Svitac’s overall development as a local NGO since June 2003.

Diana McMicking joined Firefly in 2018. She has worked in the education sector for 30 years, initially as a teacher and latterly for educational charities. From 2005 to 2016 she was Learning Director at Jupiter Artland, co-creating, managing and developing a charitable foundation. She has held several charitable trusteeships and has consulted on various short-term projects helping with fundraising and audience development. Diana took over as Chair of Trustees in December 2024.

Malaka is a Palestinian academic from the Gaza Strip, based in Scotland’s St Andrews University where she teaches and researches prisons as spaces of power, resistance, and peace building. Much of her research has been on the dynamics of prison hunger strikes. In addition to her research commitments, she is a trustee of BRISMES, Firefly International, and STEPS. In 2021, she co-founded Freelancers in Gaza with Candace Amani to connect youths in Gaza with clients around the world and provide them with mentorship. In her spare time, she loves to spend time hiking in Scotland or swimming in the North Sea whenever it is warm enough. And she has recently become interested in yoga and meditation. She finds purpose in giving back to her community, whether it is through teaching, mentorship, volunteering in organisations that fit her life purposes, or simply taking good care of the people she loves and herself to stay able to give back.

Samer Chamsi-Pasha is the Chairman of SIBA (www.siba.world), the Syrian International Business Association, a member of the Board of Directors of the International Humanitarian Relief (www.ihrelief.org) and of Madaniya (www.madaniya-csn.org).  Mr Chamsi-Pasha served on the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry Council (1991-1994) leading at the time several trade missions, as well as being elected as Vice President of the Syrian Arab Association in the UK (1994-1996), the main Syrian Expat Community representative body at the time in the UK.

Mr. Chamsi-Pasha joined his family’s Textile Industry in 1981 upon earning his Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering BS degree from the University of Pittsburgh. While at Pitt in 1979, he was awarded the Outstanding Achievement Award given annually to the highest achieving student in the School of Engineering. He then continued his education in 1983-1985 graduating from the London Business School MBA program.

Today, Mr Chamsi-Pasha manages various family companies in textile, property and international trade.