Sep 14, 2022
As Partnerships and Project Manager, Omer works to foster strong collaborations with current members, build new partnerships that advance NewCities’ initiatives, and carry out member-focused projects. He brings expertise in accessibility and sustainability to the team with experience designing and facilitating workshops, planning events, and managing social impact research and communications projects. Prior to joining…
Sep 14, 2022
As Office and Operations Manager, Mariana works to ensure team operations run smoothly, oversees human resources and cashflow, and supports communications and project work. Since joining the team in 2022, Mariana has optimized operational efficiency, team wellbeing, and has created and streamlined our hiring and onboarding processes. Mariana brings a background in International Development to…
Aug 30, 2022
Claudio Sarmiento-Casas is an architect and a doctoral student at the Department of Geography and Planning at the University of Toronto. His research on bicycle trades (informal cycle-based street vendors) lies at the intersection between contested street politics and everyday informal cycling. He works as an urban consultant, researcher, and lecturer in Mexico. Contributed at…
Aug 11, 2022
Bogota’s councillor for the Alianza Verde Party With the largest number of votes for City Council Cancino has promoted social and political projects that have contributed to generating cultural change based on innovation and collective strength, achieving agreements that have strengthened trust materializing aspirations of women and youths by coordinating interests, emotions, and capacities. Cancino…
Aug 11, 2022
Member of the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE), the Bogotá Feminist Economics Table and the Bogotá Intersectoral Table for Care Economics Feminist economist and activist. Graduated in Economics from the Universidad del Valle, Colombia. Master in Economics from the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium. She has completed several refresher courses and diplomas in feminist…
Aug 11, 2022
Undersecretary for Gender and Equality Policies of the Secretary for Women at the Mayor’s office of Bogotá Magistra in Political Studies from The Pontifical Xavierian University, Specialist in feminist and gender studies from Colombian National University and Graduate in psychology from The Externado University. Diana has more than 10 years of experience as a consultor,…
Aug 11, 2022
Secretary for Women at the Mayor’s office of Bogotá | Secretaria de la Mujer de Bogotá Ms. Rodriguez holds a PhD in sociology from Northwestern University in the United States and a master’s degree in sociology from the same university. She graduated in Law and Economy from the Los Andes University in Bogota, Colombia. She…
Aug 11, 2022
Secretary for Social Integration at the Mayor’s office of Bogotá | Secretaria Distrital de Integración Social The current secretary for Social Integration, is a graduate and recipient of a Master in Public Law of la Universidad Externado de Colombia. She is also a specialist in Criminal Law from the National University of Colombia and a specialist…
Jun 27, 2022
Tara Barauskas is the Executive Director of Community Corporation of Santa Monica, a nonprofit affordable housing organization based in Santa Monica, California. Being in this role since 2016, she oversees the functional areas of the organization, including management of 1,800 units of affordable housing, housing development, resident services, maintenance and administration of 80 staff. Ms.…
Jun 27, 2022
Julie is a strategic leader focused on social impact partnerships leading towards equity and wellbeing for all. After three decades in local government and nonprofit leadership positions, in July 2020 Julie co-founded Civic Wellbeing Partners, a startup project designed to advance and spread wellbeing leadership and practices. Julie has partnered with the Robert Wood Johnson…
Sep 26, 2021
Paul Taylor is the Executive Director of FoodShare Toronto and a lifelong anti-poverty activist. He also teaches at Simon Fraser University, is a regular political commentator on CTV and has written numerous op-eds and columns on various social issues. Growing up materially poor in Toronto, has inspired Paul to commit his life to doing what…
Sep 26, 2021
Peter van Wingerden is CEO and founder of Floating Farm, a disruptive way of agriculture on the water. International leading the innovation of food production close to consumers in a totally new approach (climate adaptive). Floating Farm designs, engineers and develops sustainable farms on rivers, ports, lakes, water reservoirs and sea. Floating Farm started 5…