Pinaki Dasgupta is currently pursuing his PhD at CRDT IIT Delhi, serves as a General Manager in CP Consultants and is Secretary to Shristi, a NGO working on connecting science and arts for community building. He is also the Coordinator of The Bhumi Project in India. He has a Bachelors in Chemical Engineering and Masters in Energy Management. He is a board member of  the Indian Youth Climate Network.

Archana Dubey is a self-taught, passionate and creative person who works around sustainability. She has experience in facilitating group dialogues and other workshops on such themes as the power of silence, multifaith prayer and togetherness. She is inspired by nature and likes to work on concepts for upscaling waste into meaningful products. For over three years, she has worked on various projects involving civil servants and businesspeople under the aegis of IofC India’s Centre for Governance.

Kjersti Webb has been a working actor and artist since 1996. She was born in Sweden, has moved around the world ever since, and considers herself nationally fluid – belonging to the human race. After graduating from Dell `Arte School of Physical Theatre in Blue Lake, California, she had extensive training in Lecoq Pedagogy under Amy Russell at Embodied Poetics and LISPA. She also studied with Norman Taylor (who was Lecoq’s movement teacher for 30 years), Philippe Gaulier and Giovanni Fusetti, whose styles also derive from Lecoq.

Greg FitzGerald builds innovative solutions at the intersection of technology, finance and the environment. He has over 15 years of global professional experience fuelling the strategic growth of organizations as a management consultant (Deloitte), and as a startup founder and mentor spanning data analytics, supply chain transparency and the future of work. Greg is the founder and principal of Venture Stem, an innovation consultancy, where he helps institutions to design products that support entrepreneurship.

Ebony Walden is an urban planner, consultant and facilitator with over a decade of experience working to transform communities. She is the Founder and Principal Consultant of Ebony Walden Consulting (EWC), an urban strategy firm based in Richmond, Virginia. At EWC, she works with organizations in the housing and community development arena to design and facilitate workshops, training programmes, strategic plans and community engagement processes that explore race, equity and the creation of just and inclusive communities.

Matthew Freeman’s passion for racial equity and social justice has led him across the United States and overseas, helping people connect across difference and begin to address the challenges that divide them. Matthew has worked with Members of Congress and the Federal Reserve System, as well as with organizations of all sizes, from Fortune 500’s to small non-profits.

Rob Corcoran is a trainer, facilitator, writer and racial healing practitioner. He has led trustbuilding workshops among diverse and polarized groups across North America, Europe, South Africa, Brazil, India and Australia. Originally from Scotland, he served as the National Director for Initiatives of Change USA and founded its internationally recognized programme, Hope in the Cities, in Richmond, Virginia. He is also a co-founder of the Caux Scholars Program. He collaborated on a dialogue guide for President Clinton’s Initiative on Race.

Irina Fedorenko has just completed a PhD in Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford. She also has a bachelor’s degree in public relations from the Far Eastern Federal University of Vladivostok and a Master’s of Environmental Science from the University of Oxford, Green Templeton College. She is a co-founder of the ecosystem restoration company BioCarbon Engineering, that uses drones and other emerging technology to enable land restoration around the world.