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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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Yordanos Eyoel is an Ethiopian-American democracy entrepreneur who is the Founder and CEO of Keseb. Keseb is a nonpartisan organization building a transnational civil society ecosystem to advance inclusive and resilient democracies.Yordanos’ expertise lies at the intersection of philanthropy and practice, building and strengthening ecosystems for social and democracy innovation.
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Sid Hargro (he/him) is Principal of HarLin Strategies, where he offers fractional executive leadership for strategic growth and impact and executive coaching. Rooted in the legacy of his parents, who were sharecropper kids, and his ancestors, Sid’s journey reflects a deep belief that nothing is impossible when vision, courage, and…
By Resla Wesonga