Amber French
Co-founder & Executive Director
Amber is Co-founder and Executive Director of the Organization for Nonviolent Movements. Working in progressive roles with the Center for Nonviolent Conflict Research (formerly ICNC) from 2014 to 2025, Amber’s work focuses on building networks and infrastructure for movement-centered editorial leadership and education. She is Founder and Director of Publication of ONM’s Across Fault Lines: A Civic Journal, editing its inaugural issue, Ukrainian Freedom: Collective Agency in National Defense. She is Co-Founder and Managing Editor of ICNC’s Minds of the Movement blog, as well as Co-founder of an international working group on civil resistance and ICNC Press, serving as editor of the latter’s first nine titles.
A long-time resident of France, she led the co-creation of the first free online course on civil resistance in French. She has held associate professorships at the Université Catholique de Paris and the European School of Political and Social Sciences (ESPOL) in Lille.
Amber brings years of professional research, writing, program design/management, and editing experience, including with UNESCO and the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity.
She holds advanced degrees in international relations and diplomacy from the American Graduate School of Paris, France, and from Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
Olena Tregub
Senior Advisor
Olena Tregub is an award-winning leader in Ukrainian civil society. She is founder and Secretary General of the Independent Anti-Corruption Commission (NAKO), established in 2017 in partnership with Transparency International. NAKO is the first and most recognized Ukrainian civil society organization to systematically work in the defense and security sector as a policy think tank, promoting integrity, democratic oversight, and transparency.
Since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion, Olena has coordinated the Public Council on Sanction Policy under the Office of the President of Ukraine. She also co-initiated the Anti-Corruption Council at the Ministry of Defense, where she currently serves a second term, contributing to wartime institutional reforms. Previously, Olena served as Director at the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine, where she managed the country’s $12 billion international aid portfolio and helped design Ukraine’s post-Maidan institutional architecture.
She holds degrees from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (Tufts University, USA) and Central European University. She is a board member at Hromadske TV and a non-resident fellow at Eastern Circles (Paris) and the Atlantic Council (Washington, DC).
She is a founding Steering Committee member of the Business for Ukraine Coalition (B4Ukraine), a global civil society network working to stop Russia’s war machine by cutting its access to Western finance, technology, and supply chains. Olena has published and presented extensively on civil society, democratic resilience, and Ukrainian defense.
Jean-Pierre Mutumambila
Course Coordinator
Jean-Pierre is a Congolese citizen living in the western region of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Apart from his work with ONM, he is coordinator of the Kinduku Educational Center of Faith and Joy DRC (Fè y Alegria), which supports disadvantaged and illiterate young people in the province of Kwilu. He is also active in civil society as a member of the Pona Congo citizen movement. Jean-Pierre is founding member of the Grand Bandundu Citizens’ Assembly, a citizen-led organization that aims to strengthen citizen participation in order to improve local governance.
With a degree in political science from Université de Lubumbashi, Jean-Pierre is passionate about civic activism. His ultimate goal is to inspire political and social change by encouraging responsible governance that meets the needs of all without discrimination.
Mariam Azeem
Senior Advisor, Learning & Training
Mariam Azeem is a seasoned educator and coach specializing in nonviolent civil resistance, human rights, women’s leadership, and movement building. She supports youth, women, and gender minorities in advancing justice narratives. As Rhize’s Director of Movement Support and Learning (2018-2023), she trained with organizations like the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict (ICNC) and the Council of Europe. A certified human rights educator, she spearheaded Pakistan’s national human rights program and contributed to its first transgender rights bill. A trauma-informed grief coach, Mariam’s holistic curriculum design emphasizes inclusion, resilience, and people power, fostering participatory citizenship and accountable democracy.