June Chua (she/her)
Transgender community leader Founder and executive director of the T Project
June Chua is the founder of The T Project, Singapore’s first and only shelter for transgender and gender-diverse people, and the Alicia Community Centre, a safe space for the LGBTQIA+ community.
A former sex worker, June made her start in community and social work as a volunteer coordinator in healthcare. Together with her late sister, Alicia Chua, she founded The T Project in 2014.
June’s work won her the AWARE Champion for Gender Equality and Justice Award and the TWC3 Promising Advocate of the Year Award in 2016.
Media interviews with June Chua
Gina Chua (she/her)
Executive editor of Semafor Former executive editor of Reuters
Gina Chua is the executive editor of Semafor, a news website founded in 2022.
Chua has been described as one of the most senior openly transgender journalists in the US. Her distinguished career includes leadership roles as editor-in-chief at both the South China Morning Post and The Asian Wall Street Journal, deputy managing editor at The Wall Street Journal in New York, and earlier work as a foreign correspondent and broadcast journalist in Singapore and across Asia.
She was appointed executive editor at Reuters in 2021. In her executive editor role at Reuters, Chua managed newsroom operations, logistics, budgets, and security while collaborating with tech teams to develop essential newsroom tools, alongside numerous other strategic responsibilities.
Chua was the inaugural recipient of the Online News Association’s Impact Award in 2021. She is a board-member-at-large for the Trans Journalists Association.
Media interviews with Gina Chua
Andrea Razali (she/her)
Transgender model and entrepreneur Owner, Andrea & Weave
Andrea Razali is the first transgender model to clinch the title of Miss International Queen Singapore in 2020, and was a contender at the world’s biggest beauty pageant for trans women in Pattaya City, Thailand in the same year.
She is the first openly trans Singaporean woman to appear on the New York Times Style: Singapore and L'Officiel Singapore magazines.
She founded Andrea & Weave, a comprehensive beauty enterprise offering cosmetics, wigs, hair products, and professional make-up and hair services.
Media interviews with Andrea Razali
Quen Wong (she/her)
Independent filmmaker
Quen Wong is a film director, writer and producer.
Wong produced her debut feature film Some Women in 2021. The film was featured in the 32nd Singapore International Film Festival in November 2021. It won the Impact Award at the Vancouver International Women in Film Festival in 2023.
She was a senior producer at Channel NewsAsia and Executive Producer at Discovery Networks, directing documentaries such as Undercover Asia and Power and Piety: The Hellfire Nation, a film about Christian evangelicalism in American politics.