Meet the 2021 Community Impact Leaders
In 2020, TP launched the Global Community Impact Leaders Consortium, to facilitate activists and peacebuilders on the frontlines of catalyzing change around the world to come together in a safe and collaborative space to learn, share and encourage cross movement conversations.
Angi Yoder-Maina
Angi Yoder-Maina, Executive Director, Green String Network (GSN)
Learn more through a 1:1 interview with Angi here.
Bonnie Jenkins
Bonnie Jenkins, Founder and Executive Director, Women of Color Advancing Peace, Security and Conflict Transformation (WCAPS)
Learn more through a 1:1 interview with Bonnie here.
Joanna Grace Farmer
Joanna Grace Farmer, Founder and Director, Building Community Capacity
Learn more through a 1:1 interview with Joanna here.
Karen Shuford
Karen Shuford, Director, Julia’s Closet Inc.
Learn more through a 1:1 interview with Karen here.
Mohamed Salia
Mohamed Salia, Founder, SEED-Sierra Leone
Natalie Ringsmuth
Natalie Ringsmuth, Founder, Unite Cloud
Learn more through a 1:1 interview with Natalie here.
Nikita Trafimovich
Nikita Trafimovich has been working as a civil disability advocate for the last 12 years.
Learn more through a 1:1 interview with Nikita here.
Wachelon Andrew
Wachelon Andrew, CEO and Executive Director, Dreams Alive Africa
Vincent Kiplagat
Vincent Kiplagat, Program Coordinator, Daima Initiatives for Peace and Development (DiPaD)
About the Global Community Impact Leaders Consortium
Members of Thought Partnerships’ Global Community Impact Leaders Consortium will inspire and support one another along their journey as a grassroots leader in preventing identity based violence and countering hate and division.
Thought Partnerships (TP) joins millions around the world who are finding ways to navigate through shifting norms and life experiences in the midst of a global pandemic. COVID-19 is exposing and exacerbating deeply rooted issues, such as systemic racism, escalating the risks of violence and insecurity for many populations, and perpetuating cycles of vulnerability and marginalization. We believe that peacebuilders around the world who are working tirelessly to realize more just and inclusive societies for their communities and countries are critically important to strengthen social cohesion and create transformative change. Unprecedented times like these, call for shared solutions, and coming together in community and solidarity.
As one contribution toward this vision, TP has launched the Global Community Impact Leaders Consortium, to facilitate activists and peacebuilders on the frontlines of catalyzing change around the world to come together in a safe and collaborative space to learn, share and encourage cross movement conversations.
We offer this program as an opportunity to stand together in compassion, strength and solidarity towards working to an end to injustice and identity based violence. Now is the time to bring grassroots leaders from diverse communities and identities from around the world together, to have conversations, cross-pollinate ideas and strategize movement building. It will take all of us to break down the silos that separate us, push back against systems that seek to fracture us and achieve transformative and lasting change. The time to come together in global solidarity and collaboration is now and together we are stronger and more resilient in our shared purpose.
Thought Partnerships envisions your membership in the Community Impact Leaders Consortium to have three outcomes:
Develop meaningful and long lasting connections with fellow cohort members and a larger Community of Practice working in many contexts from, with and on behalf of diverse communities.
Use TP’s platform to highlight your community and work through roundtables, resource sharing and conversations with funders and inspiring global practitioners.
Engage in peer-to-peer learning and exchange with our global Community of Practice through sharing and receiving new tools and resources to combat hate and division.
How Can I get involved?
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