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
Reimagining and creating feminist humanitarian futures
With Fanta Toure, Soheir Assad and Sara Abbas
September 2026
If we were building feminist humanitarian realities and futures, what practices, assumptions, and compromises would we refuse to accept—and what more just, liberatory alternatives would we create instead?
Library of past Catalytic Conversations
with Maria Alejandra Escalante , Arturo A. Massol-Deyá and Mela Chiponda
June 2026
With Kayhan Irani
May 2026
with: Anasuya Sengupta and Timnit Gebru
March, 2026
with: Lame Olebile and Maie Panaga
February, 2026
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
With: Halima Mohamed and Nicolette Naylor
May 2024
African and feminist visions for liberation and transnational solidarity: what role for philanthropy? - Part 2
With: Halima Mohamed and Nicolette Naylor
May 2024
Envisioning and Building Pan-African and Feminist Economic and Funding Futures
With: Crystal Simeoni and and Fatimah Kelleher
April 2024
Centering Visions for Disability Justice in the Feminist Philanthropic Ecosystem
With:Catalina Devandas Aguilar
February 2024