Francesca joined JCWI as the Coordinator for the UK-France-Belgium Crossborder Forum in October 2022. The Crossborder Forum, hosted by JCWI, is a space for civil society organisations concerned with the UK-France-Belgium border to exchange information and expertise on ongoing crossborder migration and asylum issues. 
She previously worked at Kanlungan Filipino Consortium, delivering immigration casework for undocumented Filipino migrants and leading campaigns for the rights of migrant domestic workers and migrants with precarious immigration status.
Before working in the migrants’ rights sector, she worked in peacebuilding in the Philippines and inclusive education at LSE, from where she holds a MSc in Empires, Colonialism and Globalisation.