Latthida Kitiyavong is the Laos CLE Project Coordinator for Vientiane. Latthida joined the BABSEACLE Laos team in 2020. Before she joined the BABSEACLE, she worked in HR management at a Japanese company. She graduated with a Bachelor Degree from Faculty of Law and Political Sciences, National University of Laos, majoring in Business Law. While studying, she was a CLE volunteer between 2016 to 2018 and undertook a variety of community outreach activities such as: law dissemination at the Somsanga Drug Rehabilitation and Treatment Centre; interviewing community members in Champasak Province for a baseline study on knowledge of gender-based violence; ‘Stop Gender-Based Violence’ campaign and awareness raising in Xiengkhuang Province and Vientiane Capital. She loves to learn and is always keen to experience new things (whatever the experience) through volunteering and joining training, seminar opportunities and local / regional conferences. Latthida is fluent in Japanese and is one of only 2 students who successfully completed the pilot 4-year Law joint program between Nagoya University (Japan) and the National University of Laos.

Cherry joined the BABSEACLE Laos team in May 2021. In her role as Project Assistant. She loves to learn and improve knowledge for herself and work improvement to get better.

She graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree from the Faculty of Law and Political Science, National University of Laos, Majoring in Administrative Law. While studying, she was a member of debate group of Faculty of Law and Political Science, National University of Laos, Volunteer in Library at Faculty of Law and Political Science., Participation on AICHR Youth Debate on Human Right 2016 in Malaysia, Participation in YALPI Young ASEAN Leaders Policy Initiative 2018 in Thailand, she has done an internship at President Palace.

Mitsalin Sonepaseuth is a part-time translator at BABSEACLE.
She joined BABSEACLE Laos as a translator and project assistant for a short term in 2019 then received a scholarship from European Union to be an exchange student at Uppsala University, Sweden in 2020. After that, she came back to the team again as our part-time translator in 2021.
Before starting working, she held a Bachelor’s Degree of Arts in International Relations from the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences, the National University of Laos in 2019. During her university life, she earned a lot of experience in volunteering and exchange programs abroad. Referring to her volunteer background, she was a member of the FLP debate group since 2014 and became the president of this group who played an important role in debate training, planning activities, including facilitating coordination between the group members and the support donors to implement the group´s action plan from 2017 to 2019. Apart from that, she was one of the ambitious candidates for a hunting scholarship both regional and internationally. She received her first scholarship to study abroad by the Korean government under the GKS Exchange Program in 2016 which introduced her to explore deeper in Korean culture and foreign policy.  Following, the scholarship from the US Departments of State during the mid-2019 allowed her to visit Montana and other three states for enhancing her knowledge of American foreign policy and strategy to respond to environmental issues. As one of the young women who are passionate about development and international cooperation, she has a strong commitment to pursue her home country to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals, particularly Goal number 16 to strengthen the better providing of access to the justice system and ensure that individuals’ civil rights will be protected in the face of the law.