Amina is a sexual and reproductive health and rights advocate. Her passion for empowering women and girls to make informed decisions about their health motivated her to co-found Roots of Health (ROH), a local NGO that provides sexual and reproductive health and rights awareness and clinical services in Palawan province.

As executive director at ROH, Amina leads the development of programs and services, fundraising, and building partnerships with local, national, and international stakeholders. Under her leadership, ROH currently serves over 40,000 young people with comprehensive sexuality education and provides clinical services to over 20,000 women and girls. ROH also provides capacity building to community-based service providers to ensure young people’s access to accurate reproductive health information and non-judgmental services.

In addition to her work at ROH, Amina also serves as a member of the City Local Health Board, City Maternal Death Review Board, and Provincial Family Health Board. She is a 2017 Ashoka Fellow, a 2011 Asia 21 Young Leader, and a columnist at Palawan News, Palawan’s leading online newspaper. She is interested in learning about the system change framework and its theory, and how it can be used to create a long-lasting and sustainable change on lives of the community she serves.