Daniella Zulkifili

Dani is the President of the Association of Women Lawyers (AWL) and a member of the Reproductive Rights Advocacy Alliance Malaysia (RRAAM). She has been involved in civil society movements for over a decade.

Outside of her day job, she focuses her passion on issues relating to sexual harassment, child abuse and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). Dani played a significant role in the drafting of the Anti-Sexual Harassment Act and contributed to the establishment of the Sexual Offences Against Children Act.

Before she left legal practice in 2016, she was the Co-Chairperson of the Malaysian Bar’s National Young Lawyers’ Committee 2015-2016 and was a Steering Committee Member of the Gender Equality Initiative – a project aimed at educating law students to advocate for gender equality.

She is currently actively involved in campaigns to increase women’s representation in politics, introducing comprehensive online safety laws and putting an end to child marriage.

To me making an impact is quite simple. How can I help or how can I improve someone’s life? It can be as simple as being kind to others so that they pay it forward, or you can get involved in a specific passion of yours, especially when you see an injustice. If through your efforts, no matter how small, someone somewhere out there feels safer or finds the help they need to get through what they’re facing, you are making an impact.