Systems Storytelling Project

  • Nayantara Sen

    Nayantara is a cultural and narrative strategist, a network builder, a racial justice educator and trainer. She is the Director of Programs and Cultural Strategies at Real Food Real Stories, and a Senior Fellow at the Pop Culture Collaborative. Her work lies at the intersections of social justice, arts, culture, narrative and organizational change.

  • Melanie Goodchild

    Melanie Goodchild is the founder of the Turtle Island Institute, an Indigenous social innovation think & do tank (a teaching lodge). In her work, she weaves together her unique perspectives of Anishinaabe gikendaasowin (knowledge) with systems thinking/complexity theory and social innovation.

  • Joanne Cheung

    Joanne Cheung is an artist and designer. She teaches at Stanford & UC Berkeley-Haas. She believes that in order to tackle the challenges humans face, design should be practiced at the scale of individuals, communities, and cultures. To that end, Joanne creates architectural and digital experiences that foster collaboration across scales and across differences.

  • Nat Kendall-Taylor

    Nat serves as CEO at FrameWorks Institute. An expert in psychological anthropology and communications science, He publishes widely and lectures frequently in the US and abroad. He is a senior fellow at the Center on the Developing Child, Harvard University, a visiting professor at the Child Study Center, Yale School of Medicine, and a fellow at the British-American Project.

  • Phillipa Kabali-Kagwa

    Phillipa is a Ugandan author and personal coach, living in Cape Town, South Africa. She spoke at TEDx TableMountain and PrinceAlbert in 2012. Her memoir, Flame & Song, was published in 2016. She is the daughter of Ugandan poet Christopher Henry Muwanga Barlow and Fayce Lois Watsemwa Barlow. She graduated with B.ED Hons in Music & Literature, Kenyatta University

  • Sibusiso Nyamakazi

    Sibusiso Nyamakazi is a writer, public speaker and musician involved in several social and artistic projects in the Cape Town area. He studied Management at the CPUT (Cape Peninsula University of Technology) and joined the Imvula team in 2016. Sbu is the cofounder of the Philippi Music Project, a social enterprise running a recording studio built in a shipping container, located in the township of Philippi.

  • Tara Roberts

    Tara Roberts is a National Geographic Storytelling Fellow and a Fellow at MIT’s Open Documentary Lab. She spent the last year following, diving with and telling stories about black scuba divers as they search for and help document slave shipwrecks around the world. Her goal is to reimagine and reframe the origin story of Africans in the Americas and to tell stories that humanize and bring empathy, nuance and complexity to their human journey.

  • David Bornstein

    David Bornstein is a journalist and author who specializes in writing about social innovation, using a style called solutions journalism. . He has written three books on social entrepreneurship. He writes for the Fixes blog for The New York Times website, and is one of the co-founders of the Solutions Journalism Network.

  • Nicolas van Hemelryck

    Nicolas is a filmmaker, photographer and architect. As a filmmaker his work has been awarded the IDFA Bertha Fund, the Tribeca Latin Fund, the Colombian Film Fund and he has been selected for the EAVE-Puentes Producers Workshop, the IDFAcademy and Dok.Incubator. He has worked for TV documentaries. His work has received international awards and has been exhibited in America, Europe and Asia.

  • Mwihaki Muraguri

    Mwihaki is a seasoned professional in development and philanthropy. She has worked in philanthropic institutions such as the Rockefeller Foundation, where she led the foundations work in health and philanthropy in Africa, and with the KCB Foundation, one of Kenya’s first corporate foundations working across East Africa. Mwihaki spent several years in the area of HIV and AIDS service delivery with Amref Health Africa, Africa’s largest homegrown health NGO.