Episode 2 of The Now Work's new podcast 'The Future of Impact Work' is available now.
The second episode of The Future of Impact Work podcast features Panthea Lee, a writer, activist, and transdisciplinary designer and facilitator working for structural justice and collective liberation.
This was a fascinating conversation, covering Panthea’s background and early career, and their experience working to centre local communities in international development work with large-scale, technocratic institutions.
We discussed:
- How to address inefficiencies in large-scale development programmes by centring affecting communities in design and decision-making
- How to facilitate real collaboration between grassroots organisations, activists and powerful technocratic agencies
- Corruption and the public sector
- The importance of confronting historical truths
- How to engage in reparative justice
- Reshaping work cultures to address individualism and saviourism
This is an eye-opening and expansive conversation and is a must-listen for anyone who is interested in large scale systems change and decolonising approaches.
You can listen to or watch the episode here:
The Future of Impact Work Podcast is brought to you by Hannah Phang, Laura Hunter and Sarah Penrhyn-Jones.
Additional Resources:
- 'The Hypocrisy Trap: the World Bank and the poverty of reform' - by Catherine Weaver
- Anasuya Sengupta - Whose Knowledge?
- Reconsidering Reparations - by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
- Multidirectional Memory - by Michael Rothberg
- Ashanti Kuene - Learning 2 Unlearn
- Trauma Stewardship - by Laura van Dernoot Lispky and Connie Burk
- Nkem Ndefo - Lumos Transforms
- Ruth Wilson Gilmore
- To learn more about Panthea's thinking, visit their website
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