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Ashoka Fellow Aisha Nyandoro has pioneered an approach to ending generational poverty for families. In 2018, she launched a guaranteed income program for Black mothers in Mississippi, and through its success has become a leading champion of federal guaranteed income, including the Child Tax Credit. Across all efforts, she and her team are changing the narrative about poverty and power, challenging long-standing prejudices about who deserves to make it in America, and countering gendered and racialized narratives about why people donât.
Speaking with Aisha is Angelou Ezeilo, an Ashoka Fellow from Atlanta, now living in Lagos, Nigeria.
*Episode records live on April 10, 2024Welcome Change is Ashoka's news and insight series - short conversations with the world's leading changemakers on what works, what's next, and the role we can play.
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Countless examples across the world show us that living in multicultural neighborhoods frequently results in people living side-by-side but in parallel communities. This deprives us of the opportunity to build shared lives, focus on the many things we have in common, and work together on the challenges we experience close to home. We can do all this while treasuring our own cultures and backgrounds.
Many people want to be part of creating cohesive communities, but need and want fresh opportunities to connect and build vital understanding and friendship. These opportunities don't emerge spontaneously. New bridging social infrastructures, specifically designed to include as many people as possible, are necessary. Creating practical opportunities built into the fabric of everyday life can be made inclusive and regular rather than extraordinary or infrequent occurrences for a select few.
Listen in as we hear from Ashoka Fellow Tessy Britton in the UK, creator of Participatory City and the Every One Every Day project. For over 14 years, she has designed, tested, and refined this inclusive approach with communities. Tessy will share the underpinning principles we can all apply in the places we live â to make them more creative, resilient, and welcoming for all.
Speaking with Tessy is Sascha Haselmayer, an Ashoka Fellow in Berlin.
*Recorded live on April 3, 2024.Welcome Change is Ashoka's news and insight series - short conversations with the world's leading changemakers on what works, what's next, and the role we can play.
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The U.S. spends $80B annually to incarcerate more of its people than any other nation in the world â with a hidden ecosystem of corporate and other actors benefiting financially from high incarceration rates.
Listen in to hear from Ashoka Fellow Bianca Tylek, founder of Worth Rises, about exposing these financial incentives and creating alternatives. Learn about her teamâs unique strategy that has prompted swift local and federal policy change and shifted narratives around the real cost of incarceration and the communities who shoulder that burden.
Mentioned in this episode is "The most famous speech never given." You and watch and learn more at: https://endtheexception.com/
*Episode recorded live on March 20, 2024.Welcome Change is Ashoka's news and insight series - short conversations with the world's leading changemakers on what works, what's next, and the role we can play.
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People in many parts of the world are living longer, and ideas about aging are evolving, too. Listen in to explore with Ximena Abogabir of Chile what conversations about longevity are missing, how advertisers and the media can be allies in shaping new norms around aging, and what lifelong contribution can look like â for all of us, whatever our age.
An Ashoka Fellow since 1995, Ximena is a serial entrepreneur, having most recently founded TravesĂa 100 (âJourney to 100â).
*Episode recorded live on February 28, 2024.Welcome Change is Ashoka's news and insight series - short conversations with the world's leading changemakers on what works, what's next, and the role we can play.
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With the Olympics kicking off, we'll explore how sports can create positive change (if responsibility is built into sporting ecosystems); how major sporting events can drive new norms and lasting change; and of course, what highlights weâre all looking for at this yearâs Olympics!
We'll be joined by three Ashoka Fellows in the UK:
-Mel Young, founder of the Homeless World Cup (the inspiration for the new Netflix film 'The Beautiful Game'), former Chair of Sport Scotland, and former Board member of UK Sport;
-Michael Sani, whose latest venture Play Verto looks at how to measure change and engage people in creative ways for authentic responses and actionable insights;
-Kelly Davies, former footballer from Wales who co-leads Ashoka's impact on sports as a force for positive change in society.
*Episode recorded live on July 24, 2024.Welcome Change is Ashoka's news and insight series - short conversations with the world's leading changemakers on what works, what's next, and the role we can play.
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In many places, care structures and notions of family are evolving. In the U.S., for example, less than 20% of households now fit the mold of married couples with kids. Even so, the nuclear family is still the basis for such benefits as health care, health insurance, tax breaks, and citizenship.
On this episode of Welcome Change, we hear from Ashoka Fellow Diana Adams, who is expanding the legal and cultural understanding of family and showing how a more spacious definition can help everyone â especially kids, who benefit from stable adult relationships (including same sex couples, single people, multi-partner and multigenerational families).
*Episode recorded live on February 14, 2024.Welcome Change is Ashoka's news and insight series - short conversations with the world's leading changemakers on what works, what's next, and the role we can play.
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There are more than 15 million stateless people across the world. Without a recognized nationality, they are left isolated and denied basic human rights. On this episode of Welcome Change, listen in to learned from Ashoka Fellow Christiana Bukalo what led her to found Statefree in Germany - the world's first community for and by stateless individuals. Weâll heard about the power of developing a common identity and sense of belonging, the importance of shifting narratives around statelessness, and how they are building political power to ensure equal rights.
*Episode originally recorded on Jan. 17, 2024Welcome Change is Ashoka's news and insight series - short conversations with the world's leading changemakers on what works, what's next, and the role we can play.
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Access to justice is a fundamental right that remains out of reach for far too many people. In Nigeria, 1 in 8 people experience legal challenges, but hiring a lawyer is a luxury few can afford. At the same time, Nigerian courts, like so many around the world are clogged up with cases taking on average between 1 and 6 years to move through the justice system, with 70 percent of inmates in Nigerian prisons âawaiting trialâ.
Is this an area where technology and artificial intelligence might help? And what are the safeguards to put in place to ensure we do not further entrench biases in our judicial systems? Ashoka Fellow Nelson Olanipekun offers some answers. The organization he founded, Gavel, leverages technology to connect ordinary citizens to the legal help they need. He joins us in the episode to teach us more about how they are partnering with courts and artificial intelligence to improve case management systems and more.
*Episode originally recorded on Dec. 13, 2023Welcome Change is Ashoka's news and insight series - short conversations with the world's leading changemakers on what works, what's next, and the role we can play.
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In artificial intelligence (AI), climate and many domains impacting our futures, change is happening so fast â requiring new skills, mindsets, and modes of learning. Join us to hear from two Ashoka Fellows â François Taddei and Stephen Friend â on the evolving work of Learning Planet Institute, codesigning with young people planetary Higher Ed and lifelong collaborative action for all.
Episode record live on Nov. 29, 2023Welcome Change is Ashoka's news and insight series - short conversations with the world's leading changemakers on what works, what's next, and the role we can play.
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Indonesia has abundant natural carbon capture areas critical for stabilizing our planet's climate -- such as tropical forests and roughly one-third of the worldâs tropical peatlands. Join us to meet Gita Syahrani in Jakarta and explore how sheâs weaving a collaborative governance network among the relatively few local jurisdictions (kabupaten) that oversee 80% of these important resources. Gita became an Ashoka Fellow earlier this year and was just recognized with a Climate Breakthrough Award. And yet she feels 2024 will be an even bigger year for this work and impact. Join us to find out why!
Welcome Change is Ashoka's news and insight series - short conversations with the world's leading changemakers on what works, what's next, and the role we can play.
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How are communities reimagining their economic futures? Join us on Nov. 1 to meet Ashoka Fellow Molly Hemstreet who co-leads The Industrial Commons, a network of worker owned textile cooperatives in North Carolina â in conversation with Brandon Dennison, an Ashoka Fellow and founder of Coalfield Development in West Virginia. Theyâll be talking about centering heritage industries (textiles), seeding future industries (clean energy), advancing worker ownership, and a new economic playbook for communities everywhere â for closing wealth gaps and distributing ownership.
*Recorded live on Nov. 1, 2023Welcome Change is Ashoka's news and insight series - short conversations with the world's leading changemakers on what works, what's next, and the role we can play.
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Whether due to conflict, climate change or economic opportunity, more and more people find themselves on the move across and within borders. Ukraine is a case in point, with more than 8 million of its citizens forced to leave their homes since the war broke out in 2022. Nearly one million of them landed in Poland, doubling the size of the countryâs Ukrainian diaspora.
For Ashoka Fellow Myroslava Keryk, who had moved from Ukraine to Poland more than 20 years prior, it was clear that the approach of seeing migrants merely as recipients of aid would fall short and end up stoking tensions in the long run. She founded Dom Ukrainski (Ukrainian House Foundation) to ensure newcomers could quickly become active contributors to the common good in their new home and their homeland, playing a key role in welcoming newly arrived refugees.
Tune in to hear a conversation between Myra and Ashokaâs Kenny Clewett on reframing our narratives about migration and recognizing people on the move as powerful changemakers.
*Episode recorded live on October 25, 2023.Welcome Change is Ashoka's news and insight series - short conversations with the world's leading changemakers on what works, what's next, and the role we can play.
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In March 2023, UN Secretary General AntĂłnio Guterres was unequivocal when he spoke at the release of the UNâs 6th IPCC report: âour world needs climate action on all fronts â everything, everywhere, all at once.â But who is going to deliver this action? The answer must be: Everyone. We need a groundswell of changemakers: to shift the systems and structures theyâre part of, in their work, schools, neighborhoods and countries.
For a practical look at how two Ashoka Fellows are activating climate agency in millions of young people, listen in on this Welcome Change. Weâll speak with Kuldeep Dantewadia (India), founder of Reap Benefit, and Koen Timmers (Belgium/Global), founder of Take Action Global â the worldâs largest climate education initiative.
*Episode recorded live on October 11, 2023Welcome Change is Ashoka's news and insight series - short conversations with the world's leading changemakers on what works, what's next, and the role we can play.
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In journalism and many other fields, "local" is understood as somehow less than global, limited. But what if the reverse is true: What if the most sought-after expertise is closest to the story? In her new book Byline, Fellow Cristi Hegranes, founder of Global Press, looks at the future of news and opportunities to meld local and global for greater accuracy and trust. Weâll also hear from Cristi how some reporting practices from Covid times may be here to stay â and why thatâs a good thing.
*Episode recorded live on September 20, 2023.Welcome Change is Ashoka's news and insight series - short conversations with the world's leading changemakers on what works, what's next, and the role we can play.
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The world just experienced one of the most significant global celebration of womenâs sports â the 2023 World Cup. Cited as the most internationally inclusive womenâs sporting event, breaking viewership and attendance records, it showed us how sport can be a platform for progress. Yet it also revealed how much more is needed to put women on an equal footing to men and address systemic problems in plain view to players and hundreds of millions of fans.
For a look at whatâs next in the world of sports and changemaking, we heard from Ashoka Fellow and former football/soccer player Kelly Davies, live from the U.K., in conversation with Ashokaâs Ana Saenz de Miera in Madrid.
*Episode previously recorded live on Sept. 13, 2023.Welcome Change is Ashoka's news and insight series - short conversations with the world's leading changemakers on what works, what's next, and the role we can play.
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Rev. Heber Brown III, an Ashoka Fellow in Baltimore, is activating one of the most resilient of Black institutions in the U.S. â the Black Church â to become a food producer network. His Black Church Food Security Network is now 170 congregations strong, all working to grow and distribute nutritious food to congregants and communities.
Listen in to hear from Heber, in conversation with Rev. Jennifer Bailey, also an Ashoka Fellow, and founder of Faith Matters Network.
*Previously recorded live on June 21, 2023.Welcome Change is Ashoka's news and insight series - short conversations with the world's leading changemakers on what works, what's next, and the role we can play.
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Some key industries can play an outsized role in ending human trafficking, says social entrepreneur Mariana Ruenes, who has been working to end modern slavery since age 17. Now, her Mexico City-based network equips businesses in such industries as travel and tourism with strategies to identify, report, and ultimately prevent human trafficking and exploitation in Latin America.
Listen in on this episode to learn more about modern slavery and how Mariana's organization is partnering with the private sector to fight against this issue.
*Episode previously recorded on May 10, 2023.Welcome Change is Ashoka's news and insight series - short conversations with the world's leading changemakers on what works, what's next, and the role we can play.
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From Syria, to Yemen, Burkina Faso, Myanmar, Mali, and the United States â conflict has migrated to online spaces. Recognizing this important shift, peace-builder and Ashoka Fellow Helena Puig Larrauri, co-founded Build Up to transform conflict in the digital age. Working with NGOs, UN agencies, community leaders and multilateral organizations, Build Up develops innovative tech solutions to conflict.
Over the years, tackling the exponential growth of viral polarizing content spread on social media has become a pressing challenge for peacebuilders and a key question emerged: What if we made social media platforms pay for the harms they produce, like polarization? Imagine a tax on polarization, akin to a carbon tax.
Listen in to this episode as we explore novel ideas on how to measure and reduce the polarization footprint of social media platforms.
*Episode recorded live on May 3, 2023.Welcome Change is Ashoka's news and insight series - short conversations with the world's leading changemakers on what works, what's next, and the role we can play.
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With the increasing frequency of storms, wildfires, tornadoes, and other natural disasters, Fellow Saket Soni, a labor organizer instrumental in the response to Hurricane Katrina, sees a new group of workers emerging: the resilience workforce. Essential to recovery efforts, these workers, many of them migrants, are less visible, more vulnerable and temporary, requiring new labor protections to support their critical role.
Listen in to hear from Saket about his work and what's ahead.
*Episode originally recorded on April 26, 2023Welcome Change is Ashoka's news and insight series - short conversations with the world's leading changemakers on what works, what's next, and the role we can play.
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Sabotaging her job. Refusing to work. Demanding she accounts for every cent. Destroying her credit. These are just a few examples of economic abuse. Itâs a form of domestic violence that affects most women in abusive relationships, the consequences of which often continue even after they exit their relationship. Ashoka Fellow Meseret Haileyesus founded the Canadian Centre for Womenâs Empowerment, to build a social, financial, and regulatory safety net against economic abuse.
Listen in to learn more about how she works with survivors, the financial sector, policymakers and more to enact ground-breaking changes in Canada's financial ecosystem.
This conversation is part of an insight series on what's next for gender equity, supported by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
*Episode recorded live on April 19, 2023.Welcome Change is Ashoka's news and insight series - short conversations with the world's leading changemakers on what works, what's next, and the role we can play.
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