Catalytic Conversations
Conversations that aim to stretch our imagination and challenge us to co-create desirable futures, as we build, sustain and deepen connections and community across borders and time zones.
We invite you to review past conversations and continue to join us and add your voice and dreams to our community!
Upcoming Conversations
Busting the myths of AI and reimagining technology as a tool for feminist liberation!
With Anasuya Sengupta and Timnit Gebru
March, 2026
Anasuya Sengupta is Co-Director and co-founder of of Whose Knowledge?, a global multilingual campaign to centre the knowledges of marginalized communities (the minoritized majority of the world) online. She is a co-creator and advisor to the Numun Fund(the first Global South based feminist tech fund), advisor to the Flickr Foundation, the former Chief Grantmaking Officer at the Wikimedia Foundation, and the former Regional Program Director at the Global Fund for Women.
Timnit Gebru is an Eritrea-Ethiopian-American computer scientist (with a PhD from Stanford) who works in the fields of artificial intelligence (AI), algorithmic bias and data mining. She is a co-founder of Black in AI, an advocacy group that has pushed for more Black roles in AI development and research and is the founder of the Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (DAIR).
Library of past Catalytic Conversations
with: Lame Olebile and Maie Panaga
February, 2025
with: Monica Roa
November, 2025
with: Thays Prado
October, 2025
with: Norma Wong
September, 2025
with: Nana Afidzinu - WACSI
July, 2025
with: María Alejandra Escalante and Maytik Avirama Pabon
June, 2025
with: Hanna Thomas Uose and Sepi Noohi (Joseph Rowntree Foundation)
May, 2025
with: Naila Farouki
April, 2025
with: Iris Garcia from Kataly Foundation
March 2025
with: Fanta Toure, Purity Kagwiria, Kadiatu Konate, Maman Awa Diop
February 2025
with: Anasuya Sengupta, élysse marcellin, and Cassie Denbow at Whose Knowledge?
September 2024
with: Thays Prado
July 2024
with: Francoise Moudouthe & Terry de Vries
June 2024