PODCAST · society
Role Models for Change
by Skoll Foundation
Podcast by Skoll Foundation
Episodes
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Making space for youth and Indigenous Peoples in climate activism | Archana Soreng, Skoll Fellow
Archana 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…
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Meet the next-gen climate leaders within the Youth Climate Justice Fund | Nathan Méténier
Nathan (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…
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Delta40 is reimagining how to find and fund female climate entrepreneurs | Lyndsay Holley Handler
Lyndsay 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…
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How the African Women’s Development Fund resources feminist changemakers | Françoise Moudouthe
A 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...
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Indigenous housing security with the American Indian Counseling Center | Dr. Andrea Garcia
Dr. 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...
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We Are Healers supports Indigenous medical students to care for their communities | Byron Nimham
Byron 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...
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What does wellbeing really look like to you? | Angela Chaudhuri, Swasti
Angela 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,...
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How Global Disinformation Index helps defund polarizing online content | Clare Melford
Clare 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...
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How Center for Countering Digital Hate is tackling disinformation online | Imran Ahmed
Imran 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...
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A Gender Lens to Online Disinformation with the Digital Rights Foundation | Nighat Dad
Nighat 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…
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With Khushi Baby, India can track primary health outcomes at scale | Ruchit Nagar
Ruchit Nagar, MD, MPH is CEO and Co-founder at Khushi Baby. He is also a resident physician at Yale New Haven Hospital, training in internal medicine and pediatrics with an interest in pediatric critical care. Ruchit founded Khushi Baby as an undergraduate at Yale in 2014, and has grown the…
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ARMMAN’s vision for better maternal and child health in India | Aparna Hegde
Dr. Aparna Hegde is Founder of NGO ARMMAN, which creates scalable mhealth based programs to impact maternal & child health in 21 states of India (as of August 2024, interventions implemented by ARMMAN have reached 53 million women and trained 430,000 health worker). She is an internationally...
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How ARMMAN uses AI to boost maternal health in India | Ramesh Padmanabhan
Ramesh Padmanabhan is the CEO of ARMMAN. Ramesh was Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Piramal Foundation prior to joining ARMMAN, leading technology initiatives across primary education, primary healthcare and safe drinking water. Prior to joining the Piramal Foundation in 2016, Ramesh was the…
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Joan Carling on how Indigenous Peoples Rights International is ending land discrimination
Joan Carling is an indigenous activist from the Cordillera, Philippines with more than 20 years of working on indigenous issues from the grassroots to the international level. Her expertise includes human rights, sustainable development, the environment, and climate change. She was the General...
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Juan Carlos Jintiach on indigenous climate solutions with Global Alliance of Territorial Communities
Juan Carlos Jintiach Arcos, current Executive Secretary of the Global Alliance of Territorial Communities (AGCT), recently nominated as a candidate for the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize, belongs to the Shuar people of the Ecuadorian Amazon. Partner and active member of the Interprovincial Federation of...
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Kynan Tegar on how If Not Us Then Who highlights land stewardship through film
Kynan Tegar is a 19-year-old photographer and filmmaker from the Dayak Iban tribe of the island of Borneo, Indonesia. Living in and around the traditional longhouse of his village, he learns directly from the elders, their wisdom and values, their stories of resistance in the face of encroaching...
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Sellah Bogonko on how Jacob’s Ladder Africa is harnessing youth energy for climate solutions
Sellah Bogonko is Co-Founder & CEO of Jacobs Ladder Africa (JLA), a youth focused organization on a mission to activate 30 million jobs in the green economy in Africa by 2033. JLA is spearheading workforce readiness for the green economy in Africa through research aimed at building the Africa…
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Aakash Ganju on how Saathealth is creating better health for India’s missing middle
Dr Aakash Ganju is a healthcare entrepreneur and the CEO of Saathealth, an impact focused digital health company building AI powered tools for targeted interventions and positive outcomes for health workers and consumers. Trained in medicine and management, Aakash started his career leading...
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Bruna Barros on how RenovaBR protects democracy by empowering Brazilians to lead
Bruna Barros is the current Executive Director of RenovaBR and has +15 years of experience in consulting and auditing companies, public sector and third sector. She holds a BA in Accounting from FECAP, an MBA in International Business from BI International, 2 executive specializations in public...
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Francisco Brito Cruz on how InternetLab combats misinformation and strengthens Brazil’s democracy
Francisco Brito Cruz (Chico) is the Co-founder and Executive Director at InternetLab, a Brazilian think tank focused on human rights and technology. Over the past decade, the organization has been actively engaged in research and dialogue to shape transformative initiatives. Francisco holds a…
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Nneka Mobisson how mDoc leverages telehealth to help patients manage chronic disease
Dr. L. Nneka Mobisson is co-Founder and CEO of mDoc, a digital health social enterprise which provides virtual AI-enabled self-care health coaching to people living with or at risk for chronic health needs in sub-Saharan Africa. Prior to mDoc, Dr. Mobisson served as Executive Director, Africa, at...
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Niniola Williams on how DRASA Health Trust empowers communities for a stronger health system
Niniola Williams is a public health professional leading projects, initiatives, and teams to improve community health and build resilient health systems prepared for epidemics and emergencies. She is passionate about reducing the burden of infectious diseases and increasing health security…
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Benjamin Wachira on how Emergency Medicine Kenya Foundation helps develop a system for critical care
Dr. Benjamin W. Wachira is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and the Executive Director of the Emergency Medicine Kenya Foundation, an NGO that supports governments and emergency healthcare providers across Kenya to save lives by strengthening the emergency healthcare system. He is…
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Ari Johnson on connecting patients to health care with Muso
Ari Johnson, MD, is co-founder and CEO of Muso, and Associate Professor at the University of California San Francisco, in the Department of Medicine and the Institute for Global Health Sciences. He has published peer-reviewed articles and essays in the fields of infectious disease, health systems...
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Aimee Allison on how She the People dismantles political narratives about women of color
Aimee Allison is the founder and president of She the People, a national organization that elevates the voice and power of women of color as leaders of a new political and cultural era. She made political history in 2019 when she organized and moderated the nation’s first presidential forum for...
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Dakota Hall on how youth are leading the political change they want
Dakota Hall is an accomplished organizer and Executive Director of the Alliance for Youth Action and Alliance for Youth Organizing, the largest youth grassroots organizing network in the United States. He is a Black and Indigenous organizer from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and has extensive experience…
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Erin Vilardi - How Vote Run Lead is helping legislators present American women equitably
Erin Vilardi is the Founder and Director of VoteRunLead, a national organization leveraging technology and training to accelerate the number of women in civic and political leadership. She first launched VRL as Vice President of Program and Communications at The White House Project, establishing...
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Mary Pat Hector - How RISE is building student and youth political power
Mary-Pat Hector was born in Atlanta and graduated from Spelman College and Georgia State University. She began community organizing at the age of 12. At the age of 18, she was one of the youngest community leaders to advise President Barack Obama on criminal justice reform in the Oval Office. By...
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Jill Habig - Defending Common Sense Pro Voter Policies
Jill Habig, the founder and CEO of Public Rights Project, discusses the organization's mission to support local government officials in protecting voter rights and democracy. Habig highlights the increasing efforts by corporate interests and anti-democracy groups to weaken the power of election...
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Omar Parbhoo - Using Behavioral Science To Support Voters
Omar Parbhoo, a member of the behavioral science nonprofit ideas42, discusses his commitment to democracy and the challenges it faces in the United States in a YouTube video section titled "Using Behavioral Science To Support Voters." Parbhoo focuses on understanding and overcoming behavioral...
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Eddie Ndopu on Possibility in Vulnerability
Eddie Ndopu, a social entrepreneur and advocate for disability rights, discusses his personal journey and the misconceptions he encounters as a person with a degenerative condition called spinal muscular atrophy. He emphasizes the importance of validating the humanity of all individuals…
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Lizzie Kiama on Health and Wellness for Disabled People
Lizzie Kiama, a social entrepreneur from Kenya, works with women and girls with disabilities to advance their sexual reproductive rights. She focuses on changing perceptions around their sexuality and addressing the stigma and discrimination they face. One of the main problems she highlights is…
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Karen Tse on Justice Defenders and Upholding Rule of Law for All
Human rights lawyer Karen Tse is Founder and CEO of International Bridges to Justice, an organization that provides prisoners in 48 countries with access to justice and prevents torture as a tool for confession. Every day in countries throughout the world, hundreds of thousands of citizens are...
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Muzoon Almellehan on the Moral Imperative of Equality of Education Opportunity
According the UNHCR, there are 25.4 million people currently registered as refugees, and over half of them are under the age of 18. These numbers will continue to grow as global conflicts, economic volatility, and climate change force many more to flee their homelands. What can be done to ensure...
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Sherrie Westin on How Sesame Workshop Plants Seeds for Societal Change
Sherrie Westin is President of Global Impact and Philanthropy for Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit educational organization behind Sesame Street. She leads the Workshop’s efforts to serve vulnerable children through mass media and targeted initiatives in the United States and around the world.…
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Essam Daod on Mental Health Services in Front Line Humanitarian Crises
Essam Daod co-founded Humanity Crew in 2015 to provide first response mental health and psycho-social support for refugees and people in crisis. Journalist Ray Suarez sat down with Daod to hear more about his unique “inverted pyramid” approach to mental health support, and how communities have…
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Emily Bancroft on What Health Equity Looks Like
Emily Bancroft is President of VillageReach, an organization that works to transform health care delivery to reach everyone. VillageReach won the Skoll Award in 2006. Its initiative in Malawi, Chipatala cha pa Foni, a toll-free hotline that provides health and nutrition information to people in...
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Sohini Bhattacharya on Ending Gender-Based Violence and Discrimination
Sohini Bhattacharya is the CEO and President of Breakthrough, a global human rights organization working to drive culture change to build a world where all people live in dignity, equality, and respect. Among its many initiatives, Breakthrough reaches nearly half a million adolescents in India...
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Ai-jen Poo on the Future of Universal Family Care
Ai-jen Poo is a leading labor activist and the founder of National Domestic Workers Alliance. The Alliance works to bring dignity and fairness to the growing numbers of workers who provide care and clean our homes, the majority of whom are immigrants and women of color. Ray Suarez sat down with...
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Andrew Youn of One Acre Fund on Transforming Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa
In May 2015, a group of ambitious philanthropic collaborators, including the Skoll Foundation, pledged to make a measurable dent in Africa’s hunger crisis through a catalytic $100 million investment to dramatically scale the work of One Acre Fund. A Skoll Awardee in 2010, One Acre Fund boosts the...
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Raj Panjabi of Last Mile Health on Systemic Change for Healthcare Equity
During West Africa’s devastating Ebola epidemic in 2014, the Liberian Ministry of Health and Last Mile Health—an organization that delivers primary health care to some of the most remote corners of the country – collaborated with other partners to create a unified national policy to extend health...
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Safeena Husain of Educate Girls on the Push for Gender Equity in India
Welcome to Role Models for Change, a series of insightful conversations with social entrepreneurs and other innovators on the front lines of some of the world’s most pressing problems. Today we’re talking with Safeena Husain, Founder and CEO of Educate Girls. Growing up in Delhi, India, Safeena...
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