Terms Of Reference Podcast

Johnny Girges works with with Arcenciel, an organization dedicated to social inclusion through their programing with youth, health, mobility, agriculture and more. Johnny is a true Aidpreneur, combining his skills as a physical educator, circus artist, and NGO manager to "edutain" and empower at risk youth in Lebannon and beyond with critical circus performance skills that can be used under the tent and throughout their lives.

Priscilla Brice is the founder and Managing Director of All Together Now, Australia’s only national racism prevention charity. She has a decade of experience managing social marketing and social change projects, specializing in online communications. Prior to working in the not-for-profit sector, Priscilla worked as an equities research assistant in the investment banking sector.

Priscilla is a recipient of the Churchill Fellowship and the University of Western Sydney Community Award for establishing the award-winning One Parramatta project and All Together Now more broadly.

Seth Selleck is the Youth Coordinator of the Municipality of Simrishamn in Sweden. He has led the development of various projects focused on intercultural understanding, including an international youth magazine, Cultural Horizons, which was published in the 1990’s.

After hearing the Nigerian author, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, lecture about “The Danger of a Single Story” he searched for a way to better encourage intercultural communication. Knowing young people are natural solution finders, he worked with them to develop the rapidly growing card game “More Than One Story.”

Rakesh Nair is an anti-human trafficking crusader and General Secretary of Manav Seva Sansthan (Seva) – an organization that works in the Indo-Nepal border corridor (an area notorious for human trafficking).

Over the past 13 years, Rakesh has been instrumental in creating the nationally and internationally acknowledged cross border transit model called the ‘Life Guard Centre,’ – a unique integrated model of partnership between Seva and the Border Army to eliminate human trafficking. The LGC has been successful in rescuing more than 10,500 apparent victims of human trafficking and has engaged with more than 150,000 cross border migrants on issue of safe and informed migration.

Under his co-leadership, Seva and the LGC campaign have received multiple awards and honors including: the Intercultural Innovation Award 2014, the NGO Award from the Indian Ministry of Home Affairs in 2012, the International Critical Impact Award 2010, the Global Innovation Award 2008 – The World Bank and the Godfrey Phillips National Bravery Awards.

Tom Walker is the President and CEO of LionsGate Technologies, a company that designs and produces life-saving mobile medical technology.

Tom has over 25 years of global medical device industry leadership. He has held senior management positions with Physio-Control, Eli Lilly, Cardinal Health, and AGFA HealthCare. These positions focused on North American and international business and corporate development. He also has extensive early-stage venture experience: he has led start-up initiatives, consulted with numerous early-stage medical ventures, and participated in several successful exits. He has also led key technology transfer initiatives with the University of Waterloo, the BC Cancer Agency, and the University of British Columbia (UBC). Tom is on the Board of Directors of Race Rocks Management Inc., Karos Health Inc.

Adam Anthony is a Program Officer at ForumCC, or the Tanzanian Civil Society Forum on Climate Change, which is an association of civil society organizations committed to working on climate change through individual and collective program initiatives.

Previously, Adam worked with YUNA, a youth-based United Nations awareness organization, Norwegian Church Aid, and Africa Unite, a South-African based NGO working on human rights.

Adam is the 2011 Anzisha Prize semi-finalist, winner of the JGI Global Award for Youth leadership in 2011 and the 2013 winner of the Under-30 Youth Awards in Tanzania for the social impact category.

ElsaMarie D’Silva is the Managing Director of Safecity.in – a website that uses crowdsourcing to identify locations where women have experienced or witnessed any type of sexual harassment.

ElsaMarie is an experienced aviation professional. In 2003, she made a career switch in order to improve the lives of women, youth and senior citizens through awareness, interaction and education. She is also trained in both directive and non directive counseling. 

She is a Vital Voices Lead Fellow and an alumni of the Swedish Institute.

Carne Ross is the founder and Executive Director of Independent Diplomat. Carne served as a British diplomat from 1989-2004 in a number of different roles, including speechwriter to the Foreign Secretary.  From 1998, he was the UK’s Middle East expert at the United Nations in New York.  In 2004, he resigned from the UK Foreign Office after giving then-secret evidence to the first official inquiry into the Iraq war.

Carne is also an author of two books, most recently “The Leaderless Revolution: how ordinary people will take power and change politics in the 21st Century” and “Independent Diplomat”, a critique of contemporary diplomacy.  Carne is a frequent commentator on international affairs on the BBC and Al Jazeera, and in publications including the Financial Times and The Guardian. 

Dr. Huong Nguyen is the Co-founder and Vice President of Blind-Link, a social enterprise based in Vietnam that provides employment, support, and training opportunities for people with vision disabilities.

Prior to Blind-Link, Huong was the Director of the Macroeconomics and Strategy Department of the Development Strategy Institute (DSI) - a national level think tank in Vietnam.

Huong is currently a Rajawali Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School. She was also a Humphrey Fellow as a part of the Fulbright Program. She received her PhD in Economics of Development from the Development Strategy Institute, Vietnam.

Dr. Craig Zelizer is the Founder/CEO of the Peace and Collaborative Development Network. Created in 2007, PCDN has rapidly become the leading online network connecting peacebuilders and change agents from around the globe.

Craig is also is the Interim Director of the MA in Conflict Resolution within the Department of Government at Georgetown University. His most recent publication is an edited volume called Integrated Peacebuilding: Innovative Approaches to Transforming Conflict.

Craig was also one of the co-founders and a senior partner in the Alliance for Conflict Transformation, a leading non-profit organization dedicated to building peace through innovative research and practice.

Craig currently serves on the Editorial Boards of the African Peace and Conflict Journal, Journal of Conflictology and the Journal of Peacebuilding and Development, and on the boards or advisory boards of several organizations including: Masterpeace, TechChange,The Alliance for Peacebuilding, International Peace and Security Institute, The Amani Institute, and Move this World.