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Join Illuminate Network Doula, Luis Alejandro Tapia (he/him), in conversation with Ana Lucía Castaño Galvis (she/her) for a discussion about socio-environmental transformation.
Ana Lucía is co-founder of Arare Corporation, a civil organization dedicated to support and nourish territorial organization and socio-environmental regeneration processes in Colombia and Latin America. She also collaborates actively with the University of the Environment (UMA), an Ecoversity located in Mexico which is the first higher education institution in Latin America to specialize exclusively on sustainability issues.
Ana Lucía is experienced in participatory management and design of social, productive and humanitarian projects, public policy design with indigenous peoples, and applied research in education, rural and sustainable development, amongst other subjects. As an anthropologist, agro-ecologist, and facilitator, she applies ecologic design models, participatory tools and liberating structures to catalyze collective intelligence. She facilitates collaborative processes to enable the expression of the highest potential of any place, organization or community, and to develop creative solutions to social and environmental problems.
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.