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11 October 2023 | People First Talk with Safeena Husain

In this People First Talk, we heard from Safeena Husain, Founder of Educate Girls, about her work to educate millions of girls in the most remote parts of India and enable the leadership of thousands of community-based volunteers across more than 21,000 villages in pursuit of this. Safeena will share how her organization combined a results-driven approach with a focus on mindset shifts to break patriarchal structures, in order to achieve both deep transformation at the community level, as well as system-level impact at scale.

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10 July 2023 | People First Talk with Martín Burt

In this Talk, we heard from Martín about his work to shift the development paradigm and how we measure poverty from a top-down approach, to one that recognizes that agency must reside with the people who are facing the challenges of poverty themselves.

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21 March 2023 | People First Talk with Adria Goodson

In this talk, Adria Goodson, Director of the Ford Foundation Global Fellowship Program, shared her lessons learned on the leadership we need now and how to cultivate it. We’ll explore questions such as: how we increase leaders’ ability to deal with complexity, what it takes to co-create leadership programs that share power, and how we can tap into collective wisdom to disrupt colonial mindsets and imagine the world in a different way.

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