Civil Society Environmental Public and Social Policy 
Stanford Social Innovation Review
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
A Collective, People-Centered Approach to Conservation Until the early 2000s, fortress conservationsetting up private conservation areas, displacing local and Indigenous groups, and violating their human rightswas the predominant strategy in the environmental field. So how do we replicate those wins in other regions?
Stanford Social Innovation Review
JANUARY 11, 2024
This is not a theory but a fact, affirmed by leading experts like the Edelman Trust Barometer , Gallup , and General Social Survey by NORC at the University of Chicago. It erodes a high-functioning pluralistic democracy , compromises public health, and makes it impossible to solve collective problems like climate change.
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Stanford Social Innovation Review
MAY 11, 2023
Public funding agencies, such as the Global Environment Facility and USAID, are also expressing their own intentions to get more climate and biodiversity funding to local, community-level, and Indigenous organizations. These changes are possible for both public and private funders.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
Often portrayed in Western feminist literature as the disempowered, the excluded, and needing rescue, India in fact continues to be reinvented by the heads, hands, and hearts of her women—from farmers, to craftswomen, to political leaders, to social reformers. The world’s largest cooperative dairy is also in India.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
AUGUST 15, 2023
With all this in mind, academics and policy makers have called for the international community to prioritize debt-for-climate swaps, an initiative through which a nation’s debt is forgiven in exchange for investment in climate change adaptation and mitigation, thereby addressing both crises at once.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
JULY 12, 2023
The most pernicious one is the narrative regarding small, locally led organizations and our low expectations of them (which is not exclusive to the social change space). One of the casualties of this is the perpetuation of core assumptions that are unhelpful at best and at worst a detriment to the field.
The NonProfit Times
JUNE 3, 2024
That was the topline conclusion of The Council for a Fair Data Future, a consortium of academics, civil society stakeholders, policymakers and technologists brought together under the umbrella of the Aspen Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based What is your plan for public disclosure of data collected? based organization thinktank.
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