Sanghamitra Samaddar builds partnerships and shapes narratives that connect grassroots innovation with global conversations. As Global Narrative Building and Partnerships Manager at Atmashakti Trust, she leads strategic partnerships, institutional communications, and editorial initiatives that amplify community-led innovations through research, storytelling, and collaborative publications. She has served as the curator of…
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Ruchi Kashyap is a systems leader and social entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience working alongside indigenous and marginalized communities across India. As Executive Trustee & CEO of Atmashakti Trust, she leads one of India’s largest community-led development initiatives, partnering with more than 2.8 million households across six states…
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Mathew Markman is a socio-technical engineer working at the intersection of governance, emerging technology, philanthropy, and democratic systems. He is Co-Founder and Practice Lead at Polity Cooperative. His work focuses on helping institutions and communities design participatory systems, govern emerging technologies, and make collective decisions in ways that are ethical,…
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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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Dr Kathryn Nwajiaku-Dahou is a British-Nigerian political scientist poet and writer. With over 30 years’ experience of conducting and managing research and providing policy advice to governments, multilateral institutions and NGOs, in North America, Europe and Africa where she has lived and worked, she is a firm believer in the…
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