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