The Change Makers Podcast

Jigyasa Labroo is the founder and CEO @ Slam Out Loud, an organization that uses performance and visual arts to enable children from disadvantaged communities to find their voice through creative expression.  

Find more about Slam Out Loud at: https://slamoutloud.com/

In this episode, we reflect on SDG 10: Reduced Inequalities and how the current COVID pandemic is exposing the inequalities in our society. We talk about the potential of implementing a Universal Basic Income as a potential solution to inequality and an opportunity to rethink our socio-economic systems.

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Chill Cole- Amber Lights

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Silvia Remotti, Stefano Anfossi, and Fabrizio Pierandrei are members of the PACO design collaborative - an open organization that uses the potential of design and education in fostering social innovation, sustainable behaviors, and business opportunities.

PACO believes that our organization models are inadequate for the reality of the 21st century. We are faced with global problems, yet we continue to have national or regional political decision making.  During the Industrial Revolution, we have managed to go beyond our physical limits. With the next revolution, we should be able to go beyond our social limits.

In this episode we dive into Sustainable Development 17: Partnership for the Goals and how can we reframe the way we look at reality, how can we remodel the way we live and work, and how can we collaborate to build a better world.

Learn more about PACO Design Collaborative at: http://www.pacollaborative.com/

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Sadia Afrin is a community builder, teacher coach and curriculum developer who, for the last years, has been researching and working at the intersection of conscious leadership and mental health. 

In this episode, we dive into Sustainable Development Goal 3: Good health and wellbeing. 

We explore the biggest challenge in achieving this goal in Bangladesh, the interdependence of health with other areas such as climate action and poverty, and we reflect on detaching access to healthcare from economic status.

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Neelesh Bhatia is the co-founder of Akadasia, a group of highly experienced educators, entrepreneurs, creative thinkers & technology professionals who are on a mission – to provide free access to a good, quality education to all in Asia. Akadasia believes that education is freedom & that good quality education is a basic human right that should be easily accessible to all regardless of their gender, race and/or economic background.

In this episode, we dive into Sustainable Development Goal 4: Access to Quality Education, the differences between private and public education when it comes to quality and access, the role of parents in the educational journey of their children. 

Learn more about Akadasia at: http://akadasia.com/

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Merel van der Woude and Hanja Holm are the Creative Director and Managing Director at Butterfly Works, a social design studio pioneering the use of co-creation and design thinking in international development.

In this episode, we dive into Sustainable Development Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals. We explore the opportunities and challenges in collaborating across borders and sectors and the value of using a human-centered design approach in bringing different stakeholders around the same table. 

Learn more about Butterfly Works at https://www.butterflyworks.org/

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Margianta Surahman is the spokesperson of Youth Movement for FCTC, the framework convention on tobacco control in Indonesia.

In this episode, we dive into Sustainable Development Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing. We explore how the outbreak of the COVID-19, the coronavirus has been revealing the loopholes we have in our global health systems and the need for a systemic change to focus on prevention instead of a reaction to such crises. 

We also talk about the terrible effects of the NCDs, the non-communicable diseases, caused by alcohol and tobacco, and how governments, as well as individuals, should start taking action to tackle them from a systemic perspective.

Learn more about FCTC at https://www.fctcuntukindonesia.org/

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Jan Jaap Folmer is the founder of Upp! UpCycling Platic, who wants to contribute to at least 100 zero waste cities in at least 10 countries by 2025. Upp! designs and builds Upp! Circular Plastic Factories or Upp! Mobile production units to process mixed plastic waste streams into durable and recyclable building materials.

In this episode, we dive into Sustainable Development Goal 12: Responsible Consumption and Production, plastic pollution, and the changes needed in our infrastructure to transition to a circular economy model. 

Learn more about Upp! at: https://www.upcyclingplastic.com/en/

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Tom Ansell is the founder and CEO at Whyable, who has the vision to have a positive impact on the world by improving the global political and economic system from the inside.

In this episode, we dive into Sustainable Development Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals, the challenges in our current economic model, the paradigm shifts that need to happen so that we can achieve the 2030 goals. 

Learn more about Whyable at: https://whyable.com/

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Christine Gould is the founder and CEO at Thought For Food, who is on a quest to bring more creativity and collaboration into the food and agriculture industry.

In this episode, we dive into Sustainable Development Goal 2: Zero Hunger, the complexity of our food system, and the power of collaboration and innovation to change our food systems for the better.

Sign up to the TFF Labs and shape the future of our food systems: https://tffdigitallabs.org/

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Facebook & Instagram: @thoughforfoodorg 

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Jennifer Pfister is a social entrepreneur working towards a vision of increasing civic engagement and bringing communities closer together.

In this episode, we dive into Sustainable Development Goal 4: Access to Quality Education and the power of young people and communities in creating positive impact and leading the path towards transformative change.

Questions we explore in this episode:

What do you think are the biggest challenges in education?

What is currently stopping governments/companies/educational institutions from overcoming these challenges?

What is Impactify and what is its mission?

How do you think Impactify contributes to SDG 4?

How can we educate young people to become changemakers in their own communities?

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Music Credits: Chill Cole- Amber Lights

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