Ms. Sitoula has been working with the Terre des hommes (Tdh) Foundation as Asia Regional Migration Coordinator and Lead for Climate Change/Migration since 2023. Ms. Sitoula manages children and youth on the move programs in the Asia region, particularly in countries of presence (Nepal, India, Bangladesh, and Myanmar), and provides strategic and programmatic guidance on migration-related projects and interventions.

Prior to this, she worked with the International Labour Organization (ILO) (UN specialized agency) Country Office Nepal as National Project Coordinator and oversaw the regional project that aims to reduce the vulnerability of unsafe migration, human trafficking, and forced labor situations of women and girls. Ms. Sitoula holds an LL.M. degree from the University of Notre Dame, USA, in International Human Rights Law. She worked as a Legal Fellow at Open Society Initiatives West Africa in Dakar, Senegal, and prior to that, she worked as a Program Coordinator at the Center for Legal Research and Resource Development in Kathmandu, Nepal, overseeing all projects related to labor migration and violence against women issues.

Ms. Sitoula received an LL.B. from the Kathmandu School of Law (2008) and went on to receive a Master’s of Law in Human Rights and Gender Justice from the same institution. She has experience working as a Legal Fellowship Program Coordinator at Women’s Fund Asia, where she collaborated with legal fellows (women lawyers) from five different South Asian countries to identify areas of critical work and engagement for the regional fellowship. She was granted a Humphrey Fulbright fellowship in 2013-14 and was placed at the University of Minnesota Law School, where she studied Trafficking in Persons prevention and policy.