Katya is the co-founder and international director of Participation Factory, a social enterprise that helps communities improve governance systems and quality of life through better participation and robust data. She focuses on mainstreaming best practices in public participation and community engagement.
Read MoreDiana is manager of citizen participation with Fundación Corona, working on the intersection between political inclusion and public and social innovation. She previously directed the Institute of Studies of the Public Ministry in Colombia, founded and directed Policéntrico, and worked as an advisor on peace for the Colombian Ministry of Interior.
Read MoreCharlie is an activist for democracy, human rights, digital rights, and open data with AfroLeadership, which he founded in 2007. He also works as a public finance expert for the International Association of Francophone Mayors.
Read MoreMelissa supports People Powered’s capacity-building programs and resources focused on technology. Her work focuses on programs and activities that help governments and organizations around the world choose and implement technology that supports and improves their participatory program.
Read MoreLuiza supports People Powered’s capacity-building and community-building programs. She provides coordination support for capacity-building programs on inclusion, whilst coordinating and engaging the PP member community, fostering their participation in People Powered's capacity-building programs and organizational decision-making.
Read MoreSimone holds a degree in economics from the University of Porto, a master’s in tourism and urban culture from Escola Superior de Educação Hotelaria e Turismo of the University of Algarve and a certificate in macroeconomics from Birkbeck University of London.
At Oficina, she has dedicated a significant part of her time to the design, implementation and evaluation of participatory democracy processes – including participatory budgeting, citizen’s panels, neighborhood tutors, and territorial and institutional planning instruments, such as social charters, local housing strategies and the design of statistical observatories.
Read MoreJanice has 21 years of professional experience in development and international management, mainly within the United Nations system. She is currently program officer for the International Observatory for Participatory Democracy (IOPD) in Africa and a member of the global technical team for the Index on Participatory Democracy.
Read MoreAna Paula is an assistant professor in urban planning at the University of Michigan. She investigates how disenfranchised communities engage with urban governance and evaluates the significance of participatory institutions in planning socially and environmentally just cities.
She has a Ph.D. in anthropology, master’s degrees in urban planning and Latin American studies, and a law degree.
Read MoreRamon is a Ph.D. candidate at UC Louvain in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. His doctoral project uses cross-cultural ethnographic materials and survey experiments to study people’s intuitions with regard to deliberative decision-making.
Read MoreRocío is an associate researcher for CONICET, based at the Political Research Institute of the National University of San Martín in Argentina. She also currently works as an adjunct professor of contemporary political theory at the University of Buenos Aires and as a professor of political science at the National University of San Martín.
In addition, Rocío directs the collection Contemporary Political Thought at Prometeo publishing house and is a member of the #NoSinMujeres Network of Political Scientists.
Read MoreB. Shine Cho is an assistant professor in the department of public administration at Konkuk University in Seoul, South Korea. Currently, he is working on a research project about post-COVID participatory budgeting.
Shine received a Ph.D. in public administration from the University of Nebraska at Omaha, a master’s of public administration from Georgia State University, and master’s and bachelor’s degrees in public administration from Yonsei University in Seoul.
Read MoreAnnie is a network and delivery manager for Democratic Society. In that capacity, she is Democratic Society’s lead for DEMOTEC, an EU-funded Horizon 2020 project that focuses on citizen engagement in European regional and urban policies.
Read MoreAmanda works in the intersection of learning design, communications and public policy to develop information and tools that promote more equitable and civil society-led governance. She helps take the learning activities and outcomes of People Powered to the next level.
Read MoreLouise is a communications and business development professional who also served as a member of the Irish Citizens’ Assembly from 2016 to 2018. The assembly’s recommendations led to the legalization of abortion.
Read MoreCarole is strategy director at the Waverley Street Foundation, where she supports community-led climate solutions around the world. As an environmental lawyer, she works with civil society organizations, activists and governments in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean promoting environmental democracy and environmental justice, with a special focus on inclusive and equitable development.
Read MoreNicolás is executive director of Extituto de Política Abierta in Colombia, an organization that supports innovative practices to influence, occupy and inhabit decision-making spaces. It aims to make politics more open and democracy more solid, to redistribute power, and bring government closer to citizens.
Read MoreAleksandra works as a senior consultant for OPENS, a Serbian NGO that runs school participatory budgeting in Novi Sad and advocates for young people to be equally involved in the decision-making process. Currently, her focus is on developing a youth participatory budgeting program and incorporating PB into local and national youth strategy documents.
Read MoreEmiliano Arena holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Buenos Aires, and a specialization in management and control of public policies from the Latin American College of Social Sciences (FLACSO), Argentina. Currently, he is coordinator of monitoring and evaluation at the Center of Public Policy Implementation for Equity and Growth (CIPPEC).
Read MoreJaroslav Dvorak has worked as a professor and head of the Department of Public Administration and Political Sciences at Klaipeda University, Lithuania. He served as Klaipeda University’s representative at the Klaipeda region development council (2019-2021), and at the Klaipeda University Participatory Budget Lab, he promotes PB capacity building.
Read MoreJared is a postdoctoral fellow with the Center for Inter-American Policy and Research at Tulane University. He is currently working on a book that explores the causes and effects of large-scale participatory institutions in Latin America. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University.
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