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Thomas Asher
Thomas Asher is the senior director of research and global engagement at Columbia World Projects and a fellow of practice at Columbia’s Committee on Global Thought. He builds the networks — of civic leaders, policymakers, practitioners, and researchers — that bring different fields of expertise into dialogue to advance responsive…
By Resla Wesonga
Jenny Totten
Jenny Totten is an Appalachia-based practitioner of community and economic development. She occasionally uses her engineering degrees for more than being the nerd at air shows, and is super interested in the governance and organization of communities in order to support the creation of thriving economies. Jenny is the co-principal…
By Resla Wesonga
Gideon Lichfield
Gideon Lichfield has 30 years experience as a journalist, including stints at The Economist, as a science writer and correspondent in Mexico City, Moscow, and Jerusalem; at Quartz, as one of the founding editors; and at MIT Technology Review and WIRED, as editor-in-chief. Today he works primarily in the field…
By Resla Wesonga
amalia deloney
amalia deloney is a speculative designer and civic futurist whose work weaves design, history, and imagination into frameworks that center more-than-human agency alongside displaced and marginalized communities. Guatemalan-born, she works at the neighborhood scale with communities and ecologies left out of the deciding — designing speculative governance experiences that let…
By Resla Wesonga
Maria Perez
Maria Perez grew up in 1980’s Latin America, where concepts of social justice seeped through narratives of Liberation Theology. She immigrated to the US as a young adult to pursue her education. Maria has crafted a career guided by her passion to address social disparities. A seasoned non-profit leader, organizer,…
By Resla Wesonga
Jennifer Brandel
Jennifer Brandel (she/they) is a serial entrepreneur and civic innovator whose work centers a single animating question: how do we design systems that genuinely listen, respond, and evolve with the people they serve? As Co-founder and CEO of Hearken, Jennifer has helped organizations around the world operationalize participatory…
By Resla Wesonga