Join Illuminate Network Doula, Luis Alejandro (he/him), in conversation with Vanessa Mason (she/her) about the urgent need to re-imagine, remodel and redesign tools and approaches to fulfill the basic human need for belonging over the next decade as loneliness, alienation, and exclusion become more pervasive.
Vanessa is a principal of Building Cultures of Belonging on the programs team at Omidyar Network and Creator and Writer at Future of Belonging. Trained as a social science researcher and public health practitioner, Vanessa utilized cross-disciplinary perspectives and mixed qualitative methods to understand emerging behaviors, values, and consumer insights to redesign and reimagine well-being and belonging across business, social, and civic spheres.
Vanessa is a plant mom loving wit, wanderlust and whiskey 🌱✨🥃
Learn more about Vanessa here
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The emerging field of systems change is largely dominated by white/western/academic practitioners. Systems change initiatives are often led from the center of the existing systems we seek to change. Yet, we know that systems change practitioners are working in diverse contexts, communities, doing systems change under different disciplines, using different languages, frameworks, methodologies and coming from various lineages of thought and practice. It is also clear that we need a strong, diverse and connected field of systems change leaders to address the complexity and scope of the problems of the 21st century.
“On the Edge of Systems Change” Utilizes the Clubhouse application, to illuminate the voices of Systems Change Practitioners committed to centering equity and sharing different ways of knowing and deepening our systems change practices. These conversations center people and perspectives from individuals working “on the edges” of the systems change field. It is an opportunity for candid conversation with time and space for listeners to contribute thoughts via chat and to be “handed the mic,” to ask questions or share reflections. The sessions are recorded and posted on the Illuminate Website.
Launched in 2022, this series is hosted by Illuminate Network Doula, Luis Alejandro Tapia.
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Illuminate’s Power, Justice and Systems Change Webinar Series events.
Learn more about this FREE interactive event and the series by clicking HERE.