Kāvya Raman
Kāvya Raman believes design is the use of power to shape what’s possible. She designs and facilitates spaces for change with organizations, movements, governments, and communities learning how to become good future ancestors. Her work focuses on shaping strategies, practices, and ways of working that help people and institutions cross thresholds with care, courage, and imagination. Over the past fifteen years, Kāvya has lived and worked across war zones and megacities including Afghanistan, Myanmar, Turkey, Jordan, Haiti, Egypt, Italy, and the United States, navigating cultures, languages, and ways of knowing, being, and belonging. Her experience spans social impact design, facilitation, coaching, organizational leadership, and program strategy with nonprofits, foundations, international organizations, and governments, including collaborations with The International Rescue Committee, The Gates Foundation, Oxfam International, Global Affairs Canada, and the U.S. Department of State. Her superpower is adaptation.
Sabrina Prioli
Sabrina Prioli began her career in academia as a sociologist researcher, which led her to diverse locations beyond Italy, including the Latin American barriadas, the hidden malocas of the Amazon rainforest, the yellowed rancherìas of the La Guajira desert in Colombia, and the low enkang of East Africa. Throughout her career, she has played a pivotal role in developing PM&E plans for various self-implementing and partner projects while working for NGOs and governments across Latin America, Africa, and Europe. In Colombia, Sabrina founded “Hilo Sagrado,” an organization dedicated to preserving the culture and traditions of the indigenous people of Guajira, with a focus on strengthening the identity and social role of women. She possesses extensive experience and knowledge in areas such as protection, education, economic empowerment, and gender equality, which enable her to create appropriate indicators and PM&E tools. Sabrina takes great pleasure in training field staff on utilizing PM&E tools to gather evidence that supports social change and promotes greater transparency and accountability. In 2016, during a mission in Juba, South Sudan, she was among the victims of the “Terrain incident,” where she suffered multiple rapes and torture by government soldiers during a sudden outbreak of civil conflict. Following this traumatic experience, Sabrina faced significant challenges, including a lack of medical and psychosocial support, financial resources for healing, and legal assistance for justice. Struggling with the effects of PTSD, she found healing through EMDR therapy and coaching, which inspired her to become a professional coach herself. Sabrina’s approach, grounded in Co-Active and Positive Intelligence methodologies, empowers her clients—especially victims and survivors of sexual violence—to build strengths, foster healthy beliefs, and develop positive coping strategies, rather than merely addressing “negative” behaviors and beliefs. Her personal and professional experiences, along with her deep empathy for issues related to sexual violence and abuse, fuel her commitment to enhancing prevention measures, policies, procedures, and responses within NGOs and organizations dealing with incidents of sexual violence. In 2020, Sabrina published her first book, “Il viaggio della fenice,” with the English version titled “Rise up phoenix.” In 2024, she released her second book, “Non finisce mai,” which addresses the theme of permanent victimization after rape. For her dedicated advocacy on behalf of women victims of violence and abuse, she has received several accolades in Italy, including the “Woman Award 2021,” the “Solidarity Award National Award 2022,” and the “Country of Women Award 2022.
Uri Noy Meir
Uri Noy Meir was born in a small village near the sea of Galilee and is now based and lives in central Italy, on shores of Lake Trasimeno. He is well versed and experienced in facilitating with activating the untapped collective intelligence and dormant creativity in communities, organizations and multi-stakeholders eco-systems. Uri has trained with the world’s leading experts in Theatre of the Oppressed, Dragon Dreaming and Social Presencing Theatre, and uses them as trans-formative ingredients with which to empower communities and individuals in diverse settings and contexts. He believes the powers of the arts in growing and making visible our interconnectedness and support the well-being of people, organizations, and the world. Trained and mentored by Hector Aristizabal (ImaginAction.org) he dedicates his energy to bring the transformative power of the arts to turn “wounds” into “blessings”, and illuminate the “what is” and “what if” in communities, organizations and whole systems. Uri trained with the founder of Dragon Dreaming (dragondreaming.org), a holistic method for the implementation of creative, collaborative, sustainable projects, John Croft, and he is accompanying inspirational projects, social innovators and community leaders worldwide in applying it. As an Advanced Practitioner of Social Presencing Theatre, he participated in the inaugural Presencing Institute’s Social Field Research Summer School, and he is part of a global network of researchers sensing and iterating new pathways for awareness-based system change. Uri has a graduate degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Bachelor of Arts degree in Theatre and Latin American studies.