Ashish, based in Bir, Himachal Pradesh, works at the intersection of entrepreneurship, inner transformation, and regenerative culture-building. A facilitator, systems thinker, and network weaver, he supports early-stage leaders and entrepreneurs in India to design community-rooted interventions and nurture transformative organizational cultures. His work is grounded in the belief that inner transformation and outer impact are deeply interconnected, and he creates spaces for reflection, authenticity, and systemic awareness. Ashish is part of Greaterthan, a global collective exploring the future of work, and The Vriksh Initiative, which supports grassroots leadership in India. He values simplicity, humility, and deep listening.

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Cristina, based in Valencia & Costa Rica, is an unorthodox economist exploring the intersections of regenerative practices, nature conservation and environmental stewardship in diverse places around the world. Her research and collaborations focus on how transformations unfold—their pace, direction, and the scales at which they emerge. This means working alongside communities, policymakers, NGOs, and international networks to learn (and often unlearn) together, exchange perspectives, and co-create practices that sustain social-ecological systems and reimagine the way that humans relate to the more-than-human world. These experiences have been opportunities to weave knowledge across disciplines, places, and ways of knowing—whether exploring pathways for regenerative economies, reimagining tourism, or supporting conservation innovation.

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Based in Puducherry, India, Gijs is a social entrepreneur with a background in organic agriculture and fairtrade. His work includes textiles and food systems, startup incubation and alternative economy. His inspiration comes from having lived on an organic farm in Rajasthan, India, where he learned how to farm, sell, design projects and mobilise communities for social change. His mentor farmer is Inder Dan Detha, from Borunda village in Jodhpur. Gijs lives in an international experimental township called Auroville, where there is no private property and native forest has been brought back to life. To connect with his European roots, Gijs travels overland instead of by air, dreaming of a Green Silk Road connecting Asia and Europe.

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Guadalupe Pérez Jiménez is a passionate advocate for regenerative development, now based in Argentina after completing her studies in Global Project and Change Management at Windesheim University. Originally from Argentina and raised in Costa Rica and Brazil, Guadalupe has focused her research on addressing power imbalances in the development aid sector, striving to create more tangible regenerative spaces. She has also worked on female empowerment initiatives, including a project addressing the educational needs of female farmers in Nepal. Currently, she is working to support educational endeavours related to resilience development in students and changemaking initiatives.

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Based in Edinburgh, Scotland, Karen works on biocultural diversity and the intersections of land, language, and culture. Concerned about the parallel crises of extinction facing languages, ecosystems, and diverse knowledge systems, her work links priorities of species conservation and language revitalisation towards greater recognition of, and support for, multilingual, multicultural, and locally-led approaches to environmental regeneration. With a DPhil in linguistics from the University of Oxford and an MPhil in conservation leadership from the University of Cambridge, she has held academic posts at Oxford, the University of Pittsburgh, and the Smithsonian Institution. She serves as Director of Language and Linguistics for the Ethno-Ornithology World Alliance, a digital knowledge platform which facilitates local documentation and management of traditional ecological knowledge. In collaboration with BirdLife International and the University of Oxford, she is also co-leading a new initiative with the Cornell Lab of Ornithology to integrate cultural knowledge into the Birds of the World platform. (She loves the idea of a Green Silk Road connecting Asia and Europe :) )

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Based in Brazil, Lua is the Founder at Futuro Possível. She describes herself as a researcher of regenerative narratives of the future. A peripheral woman born in the Amazon region, with brown skin and Afro-indigenous ancestry. 

“Mother of 4 human beings. I began my professional journey in university during a bachelor's degree in social communication in 2000. At 18, I started working writing for communication projects. At 20, I dropped out of college out of necessity and started my own learning journey, far from traditional means. At 24, I became a creative director at an advertising agency, managing creative accounts for brands, including a multinational mining company that operates in the Amazon region, which led me to visit mineral extraction sites and to the end of my career in advertising. The contact with the destruction of the Earth was the beginning of my regeneration. In 2015, I began a career transition by training in independent methodologies and approaches in the field of futures, ecology and imagination focused on innovation, regeneration and decolonial thinking. I worked with participatory design in traditional communities in the Amazon region, collaborating to strengthen ancestral social technologies. Since 2019, I have been researching future narratives for socio-environmental impact projects and regenerative education, since then I share knowledge from my learning journey in companies, organizations, festivals and other spaces open to civil society. Formally, recently I was Strategy Director at Purpose in Brazil, a North American company that works with social impact projects all over the world, and I contribute as a consultant for organizations such as Imaflora that works protecting Brazilian forests. I am the Founder of the Possible Future, a collective that works with education for regeneration. And, in my spare time, I am a poet. I was elected one of the 30 voices that changed the Brazilian communication industry in 2022 by the organization Papel e Caneta + Flagcx and I joined the Aerolito list as one of the 22 names that were building better futures also in 2022.”

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Based in Goa, India, Nisha is the Founder & Lead Planner- Woven Design Collaborative. Nisha Mary Poulose is an architect and regional planner with a passion for socio-ecological impact and regenerative systems. Nisha is particularly invested in multi-disciplinary alliances, driving solutions towards human-ecology re-balances and working towards incepting ethical, sustainable, and effective solutions for regeneration through research and field action. Nisha has worked with and within various government offices, providing technical support on ‘Smart Cities', sustainable mobility and strategic planning. She is also a co-convener of INTACH Anegundi Hampi and is engaged in building a global interdisciplinary collaborative for planet care. She is endlessly fascinated by nature, is always ready for outdoor activities and loves a good story.

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Based in Washington, DC and West Virginia, USA, O’Shannon is a researcher and regenerative practitioner focused on enabling collective action, systems transformation, well-being-aligned economies, and ecosystems of entrepreneurship. Her work is often at the intersection of climate action, environmental justice, conservation, and sustainable travel and tourism. O’Shannon conducts applied research as part of Cornell University’s Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise, and has facilitated projects on regenerating finance, healthcare, housing and business. She is part of Regenerative Travel where she focuses on embedding regenerative principles into tourism entrepreneurship, and Aurora Collective where she supports women leaders in collective climate action.

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Ranjani Balasubramanian, based in Bangalore, India is a designer, educator, and researcher whose work weaves together design, ecology, and community practice. With a background in architecture and urbanism, she explores how local knowledge, lived experience, and imagination can shape more regenerative ways of living in and with our cities. Her work has engaged with sustainability and post-disaster recovery in the Western Ghats, and her current doctoral research at Srishti, MAHE, investigates how urban practitioners can decolonise the ways they imagine and build futures. As co-founder of Glocal CoLab and adjunct faculty at Vidyashilp University, she continues to nurture participatory, place-based approaches to learning and transformation.

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Based in the Netherlands, Shweta is a Design Researcher, Educator, and Sustainability Consultant. Originally from India, she co-founded Glocal Colab and lectures at Windesheim University of Applied Sciences, where she also convenes the Decolonial Futures Lab—an experimental space for critical inquiry and collaborative action addressing coloniality in self and institutions. Her work sits at the intersection of systems, design, and futures thinking, fostering pluriversal approaches to reimagining organisations, cities, and governance.

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Wangũi wa Kamonji is a regeneration practitioner researching and translating indigenous Afrikan knowledges and more into experiential processes, art, and honey. Wangũi tends the organism fromtheroots, an ecoversity in East Afrika supporting individuals’ and communities’ transitions from coloniality to the pluriverse through transformational training, coaching and practice accompaniment. Wangũi’s writing is published on Decolonial Passage, Open Global Rights, Africa is a Country, Transition Network, and is a regional weaver in the Ecoversities Alliance. Wangũi has an MSc in African Studies with Environment. Born and based in Ongata Rongai, East Afrika you might find Wangũi reading, laughing, drinking tea or dancing (maybe all at once).

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