Podcast
Role Models for Change
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Podcast by Skoll Foundation
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Meet the next-gen climate leaders within the Youth Climate Justice Fund | Nathan Méténier
Nov 10, 202400:25:01Tap to summarizeNathan (he/they) is a 24-year-old climate justice & LGBTQI2S+ advocate. He is the co-Director of the Youth Climate Justice Fund, the largest youth-to-youth participative fund on climate and environmental issues. Nathan served as the youth advisor to Antonio Guterres’ Youth Advisory Group on Climate Change from 2020-2023. He founded Generation Climate Europe - the largest coalition of youth-led networks on climate and environmental issues at the European level. Nathan was also the co-chair of the youth pre-COP26 and is a former Board member of the European Environmental Bureau and Youth and Environment Europe. He seats on the Advisory Board of the Goals House and the young leaders forums of both IKEA and Ørsted. He is also a 776 Foundation fellow awardee. In 2020, he was nominated with 5 other young European for the “Young European of the Year 2020” award. He graduated from Sciences Po in France and has a MA in environmental policy and regulation from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
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Making space for youth and Indigenous Peoples in climate activism | Archana Soreng, Skoll Fellow
Nov 10, 202400:19:31Tap to summarizeArchana Soreng belongs to Khadia Tribe from India. She is the Former Member of the First United Nations Secretary General's Youth Advisory Group on Climate Change 2020-2023. She is a Climate Justice Advocate working on reclaiming spaces and amplifying the Perspective of Indigenous Community in the Climate Justice Discourse. As a Young Indigenous Women, she has been working across Global, Regional and National Level on Connecting Indigenous Youth, Research and Documentation on the Indigenous Knowledge and practices with respect to Climate Justice , Climate Action and Biodiversity Conservation. She has been working on Climate Justice with an Intersectionality of Land and Forest Rights of Indigenous Peoples. She is also working on making sure that Climate Finance and Climate Philanthropy is accessible to Young people and Indigenous Peoples.
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Delta40 is reimagining how to find and fund female climate entrepreneurs | Lyndsay Holley Handler
Oct 23, 202400:10:16Tap to summarizeLyndsay Holley Handler has over 21 years of experience building, leading, and investing in high-impact businesses in Africa. Currently, Lyndsay is a Co-Founder & Managing Partner of Delta40, an investment group and venture studio investing in, building & scaling life-changing technology ventures in Africa. Lyndsay is also an Operating Partner at Equator, and is a Board Director for SunFi, PowerUp and Giraffe Bioenergy. Before this, Lyndsay was CEO of Fenix International, a clean energy and fintech company that delivered life changing products to 5 million low-income customers in 9 countries across Africa with a team of over 1,000 employees. In 2018, ENGIE, the world’s largest independent electricity producer, acquired Fenix and Lyndsay worked with ENGIE to further scale ENGIE’s business across Africa. Lyndsay has a BA from Stanford University and lives in Kenya with her husband and two children where they bike, hike and kayak as much as they can.
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How the African Women’s Development Fund resources feminist changemakers | Françoise Moudouthe
Oct 20, 202400:12:42Tap to summarizeA pan-African feminist with roots in Cameroon, Françoise Moudouthe is deeply committed to supporting the thriving of African feminist movements. This dedication has steered her career for more than a decade. In the early stages of her career, Françoise helped The Elders with the establishment of Girls Not Brides, a global civil society partnership aimed at ending child marriage. She played a key role in expanding its presence in Africa, focusing on coalition-building and regional advocacy. She also founded Eyala, a bilingual platform that highlights the voices and experiences of African feminists, offering them spaces for learning and solidarity. In January 2021, Françoise took on the role of CEO at the African Women’s Development Fund, a feminist fund that provides resources, support, and advocacy for women's rights and feminist organizations and movements across Africa. Françoise has served on the boards of the Malala Fund, Womankind Worldwide, and WATHI Think Tank, and currently serves on the boards of the Equality Fund and Prospera.
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Indigenous housing security with the American Indian Counseling Center | Dr. Andrea Garcia
Oct 14, 202400:18:36Tap to summarizeDr. Andrea Garcia is a Physician Specialist at the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health, where she spends some of her clinical time at the American Indian Counseling Center. She otherwise has the privilege of focusing on the structural determinants of health for the American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) community through issue areas such as homelessness, placemaking, data equity, narrative change, community defined evidence practices, and policy advocacy. As a Mayoral appointee for the Los Angeles City/County Native American Indian Commission, Dr. Garcia serves as Chair of the subcommittee on homelessness. She also has the privilege of serving as Vice Chairperson for We Are Healers, a 501c3 that aims to increase the number of AIAN health professionals. Through all of her work, research, and volunteer endeavors, Dr. Garcia is most interested in centering the brilliance and inherent wisdom of Native people as they steward healthy futures for the next seven generations.
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We Are Healers supports Indigenous medical students to care for their communities | Byron Nimham
Oct 14, 202400:11:35Tap to summarizeByron Ninham is Ojibwe and Oneida, born in Wisconsin and raised in Northern Minnesota. For over a decade, he has dedicated himself to teaching and supporting young people and students of all ages in Mille Lacs. Byron finds his greatest joy in helping his relatives deepen their understanding of indigenous languages and culture. He has been actively involved with We Are Healers, providing support and encouragement to future doctors. Byron currently resides in Pierz, MN, with his wife, Amy, and their three children.
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What does wellbeing really look like to you? | Angela Chaudhuri, Swasti
Oct 10, 202400:18:21Tap to summarizeAngela has 23+ years of experience in public health in India & internationally. She is a Partner at Catalyst Group of organizations & Chief Catalyst at Swasti. From evaluation of countries’ national HIV programs to research, capacity building & knowledge management, Angela works with governments, civil society, community groups She has globally co-designed interventions & helped raise over 1.3 Bln USD for TB, HIV, Malaria for 12 countries She's lived in 5 countries & has worked in 30+ She serves on the board of Catalyst Foundation & Swasti, & is in the Steering Committe of WHO's first Civil Society Commission. In her most recent work on leading COVID response through COVIDActionCollab she has been a driving force towards many projects with focus on people-centric health systems She is the key designer for well-renowned Precision Health platform supported by Skoll Foundation
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How Global Disinformation Index helps defund polarizing online content | Clare Melford
Oct 7, 202400:19:10Tap to summarizeClare is the Co-founder & CEO of The Global Disinformation Index. An experienced CEO in the commercial and not-for-profit sectors, Clare was formerly CEO of the International Business Leaders Forum and MD of MTV Networks, Nordics. Clare was a founding board member of Girls not Brides, the global coalition to end child marriage.
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How Center for Countering Digital Hate is tackling disinformation online | Imran Ahmed
Oct 7, 202400:20:56Tap to summarizeImran Ahmed is the founder and CEO of the Center for Countering Digital Hate. He is an authority on social and psychological malignancies on social media, such as identity-based hate, extremism, disinformation, and conspiracy theories. He regularly appears on the media and in documentaries as an expert in how bad actors use digital spaces to harm others and benefit themselves, as well as how and why bad platforms allow them to do so. He advises politicians around the world on policy and legislation. Imran was inspired to start the Center after seeing the rise of antisemitism on the left in the United Kingdom and the murder of his colleague, Jo Cox MP, by a white supremacist, who had been radicalized in part online, during the EU Referendum in 2016.
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A Gender Lens to Online Disinformation with the Digital Rights Foundation | Nighat Dad
Oct 7, 202400:24:47Tap to summarizeNighat Dad is the founder and Executive Director of the Digital Rights Foundation. She is a member of the UN Secretary-General's High-Level Advisory Board on AI (HLAB) and a founding member of Meta's Oversight Board. Her organization works on the cutting edge of the intersection of human rights and technology. Nighat has won numerous accolades, including the Dutch Human Rights Award, and has been a TED Fellow since 2017. She is a staunch advocate for digital rights and women's rights for the global majority.
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