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2019 Skoll World Forum: Facebook Live Conversations

April 8, 2019

By Robyn Park - Skoll Foundation

At the 2019 Skoll World Forum, we hosted a series of live conversations—led by award-winning journalist Emily Kasriel—with social entrepreneurs, innovators, and thought leaders on Facebook Live, off the main stage. We heard about a broad range of timely and important topics, ranging from the role of storytelling in social change, to conscious capital and building for climate-resilience. Click the sessions to watch them on Facebook!

Impact at Intersection of Art and Social Enterprise with Bahia Shehab, street artist and art historian, and Hildegard Vasquez, President of Fundacion Calicanto

Deploying Capital for Social Impact with Richard Fahey, COO of Skoll Foundation, and Bill Orum, Partner at Capricorn Investment Group

Meet the 2019 Skoll Awardees with Nancy Lublin of Crisis Text Line, Nicola Galombik and Maryana Iskander of Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator, Bright Simons and Selorm Branttie of mPedigree, Gregory Rockson of mPharma, and Julie Cordua of Thorn

Models and Metaphors for a New Economy with Roger Martin, author and Institute Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute and the Michael Lee-Chin Family Institute for Corporate Citizenship at the Rotman School of Management

Indigenous Wisdom Interrupted with Lilian Hill, Executive Director of the Hopi Tutskwa Permaculture Institute, and Aleena Kawe, president and CEO of Red Star International, Inc., interviewed by Michael Painter, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

New Models for Health and Innovation with Dr Joanne Peter, a Director of Social Innovation at Johnson & Johnson, and Luiza Serpa, co-founder and CEO, Phi Institute

The Role of Philanthropy in Decolonizing Wealth with Edgar Villanueva, author and Vice President for Programs at the Schott Foundation for Public Education

What’s Trending in Systems Change with Peter Drobac, director of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at Oxford’s Saïd Business School

Journalists Under Fire with Pat Mitchell, Founder and President Pat Mitchell Media

Harnessing Creativity for Social Change with Donald Okudu, Nigeria-based creative director at Mesh Advertising and Design Studios and founder of I-AMVOCAL, and Tarek Alsaleh, Founder of Capoeira4Refugees

Blended Finance to Support Myanmar’s Smallholders with Debbie Aung Din Taylor, co-Founder of Proximity Designs, Jim Polan, VP with Overseas Private Investment Corporation, and Liz Diebold, Principal at Skoll Foundation

Unleashing Conscious Capital with Perry Chen, Founder and Chairman of Kickstarter

Financing Clean Water Equity with Alex-Ines Lebec, Executive Vice President of Investor Relations at WaterEquity

Laughter, Satire, and Social Change with Erika Soto Lamb, Vice-President of Social Impact Strategy at Comedy Central

Agricultural Innovation to Feed a Growing Planet with Usha Barwale Zehr, Director of Maharashtra Hybrid Seeds Company

Social Entrepreneurship in South America with Michelle Arevalo-Carpenter, human rights lawyer and CEO of innovation accelerator IMPAQTO

Resilient Shelter for a Changing Climate with Elizabeth Hausler, Founder and CEO of Build Change

B Corps in Developing Economies with Marcel Fukayama, Co-Founder of Sistema B Brazil, and Olivia Muiru, Executive Director and founder of B Lab East Africa

Play, Imagination, and Connecting With Refugee Youth with Muzoon Almellehan, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, and Sherrie Westin, President of Global Impact and Philanthropy for Sesame Workshop

A Media Landscape in Flux with Stephen King, CEO of Luminate, interviewed by Catherine Cheney, Devex

Catalyzing Social Change with Art with Holly Gordon, Chief Impact Officer at Participant Media

The Rise of Social Enterprise in Latin America with Daniel Buchbinder, Founder and Director of Alterna Impact

Systems Change: What Does It Take? with Sally Osberg, Former Skoll Foundation CEO and co-author of GETTING BEYOND BETTER: How Social Entrepreneurship Works

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