Claude Bunny Massassa is a contemporary artist from Gabon. She created Bunny Studio in 2016, a start-up dedicated to photography production, which became DWABI Studio in 2021. As an artist, she has represented Gabon in many international exhibitions in Senegal, Uganda, France, the United States, and Italy. In her art, she denounces social stigmas around issues of identity and mental health, and explores themes of traditions and myths.
Executive Director Kimberly Aceves- Iñiguez has been passionately committed for over 20 years to social justice organizing and advocacy efforts that bring voice and power to youth, LGBTQ people, people of color, and working-class communities in the Bay Area. Before coming on as the Executive Director for RYSE, Kimberly served as the Executive Director for Youth Together, the founding organization of the RYSE Center.
Kanwarpal Dhaliwal is one of the co-founders of RYSE and currently acts as the Associate Director. She supports and guides the implementation and integration of healing-centered practices, grounded in racial justice and liberation, and also develops, promotes, and advocates for policies, investments, practices, and research that enliven healing, justice, and liberation. Kanwarpal believes that the purpose of her work and life is to contribute to movements, communities, and legacies of liberation that honor the ancestors who fought for her existence and survival, and to forge a world that is just and gentle for future generations.
Sagal Ali is the founder and executive director of SAF. After a few years in her career in heritage protection in the cultural sector, she decided to develop the initiative to directly support young creatives in Somalia by launching her own foundation. She hopes to bridge the social gaps and inequalities women face in Somalia, both in society and in the arts scene.
Co-founders Catherine Dunga and Marleen Palmaers created Kitambo to bridge the gap between the African diaspora in Colombia and the narratives from the continent. From Kinshasa and Antwerp respectively, they work to connect African artists from the continent and their peers from the Colombian diaspora.
Martha Kazungu is a curator, art Historian and Founder of Njabala Foundation, an organization that curates periodic exhibitions and organizes a public program of activities to create a safe space for female artists to thrive and blossom.
Alicia Hansen is a photographer and teacher from New York. She founded NYC SALT in 2008 and, beyond teaching valuable creative skills to her students, has developed a long-term support system to uplift them through school and into their early artistic careers.
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We believe Creativity can change the world
The Moleskine Foundation is a non-profit organization that aims to inspire a new generation of creative thinkers and doers to change themselves and their communities.
We believe that Creativity and quality education is key to tangible social change, and our mission is to inspire youth worldwide to make a difference in their communities.
The Moleskine Foundation offers unique and unconventional educational experiences to allow youth from underserved communities to have access to spaces and tools to unlock their creative potential and transform themselves. By doing so, we support spaces where criticality and imagination can occur, so that novel solutions can be discovered for today’s challenges.
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We live in the creativity era
Today’s most pressing social issues are impacting lives around the globe in a multitude of ways, and creativity and creative skills are the driving force to sustainable plural and equitable progress for the world are necessary to find local solutions to these global problems.
We see Creativity beyond artistic expression, but rather as a set of skills innate to all that needs to be constantly cultivated: critical thinking, creative doing, lifelong learning and a changemaking attitude.
Through unconventional educational programs, grants and storytelling initiatives, we foster durable partnerships with creative organizations and individuals which are rooted in their communities and whose values and missions align with ours to develop these skills in youth around the world.
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A community of communities
We seek partners from every part of the world who are actively making a change in their communities and impacting the life of youth around them. By supporting their mission and initiatives and connecting them with a network of like-minded creatives, we amplify the voices of today’s Creativity Pioneers, and thus the voices of the young creative thinkers and doers who will build the world of tomorrow.
The cultural organizations and creative individuals we work with are groundbreaking activists, artists and entrepreneurs who use creativity daily as a tool to change the lives of youth communities, inspiring them to shape their future, and thus fostering long-term social transformations.
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