Mati Gomis-Perez served as AFSC's Country Representative for Israel and Palestine based in East Jerusalem.  Before she joined the AFSC in 2013, she worked for a number of non-governmental organizations in Spain and the occupied Palestinian territory, for UN Women in New York and Jordan, and the Spanish Agency for Development Cooperation in Jerusalem during the Second Intifada.  She has done consultancies in Cambodia, Sahrawi Refugee Camps in Algeria, and Colombia evaluating humanitarian and development projects.