OneShared.World began as a community of hundreds of people around the world coming together to collectively draft the Declaration of Interdependence. The original signatories are listed here.
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We are a broad and inclusive movement of stakeholders working collaboratively across diverse cultures, communities, ethnicities, organizations, entities, interests, generations, and nations to ensure a better future for humankind and the sustainability of our collective home.
We operate under the fiscal sponsorship of the Social Good Fund, a California nonprofit corporation and registered 501(c)(3) organization, Tax ID (EIN) 46-1323531.
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Leadership team
Expert Advisory Committee Leaders
Project Coordinators
OneShared.World, at its core and in all its functions, is youth led. Our young coordinators are not only at the table and integral to our decision-making processes, they also help direct our efforts and empower us to do and be better. This community brings together an amalgam of opinions, diversity, ideas, and most of all, energy. They are truly the heart and soul of our work. Our coordinators have been instrumental in the research and writing of our report(s), the IDEA School educational toolkit(s), managing our global administration, all our social and conventional media, organizing our global engagement, and, of course, the OneShared.World Global Interdependence Summits and all other events.
Past Coordinators
Gayatri Ahuja
Malaika Bhayana
Owen Buckley
Vineet Chovatia
James Clarke-Lister
Margaret Creighton
Julie Cusano
Simone Cutts Chiu
Cicille Dan Morton
Nelle Douglas
Katherine Elias
Yijing Gao
Marianus Graf Von Korff
Lucas Gualda
Izzi Henig
Tianna Herman
Kenna Horgan
Seth Hulsebosch
Arnav Jalan
Diya Joseph
Devashree Kar
Madeline Kelley
Sharon Liu
Camila Louge
Grace Martens
Joseph Nakitare
Barack Omondi Odiambo
Marie Papazian
Aman Patel
Munirmahedi Paviwala
Yasmine Rejeb
Stella Robertson
Tarana Sable
Sarah Salimi
Thomas Schmitz
Kelly Shea
Chirag Singhal
Payton Smith
Gabrielle Smotrich
Sam Stone
Silvi Mary Sunil
Peter Ullrich
Smriti Venkatraman
Alexander Watson
Elizabeth Wolfenden
Brynne Wrona
Rick Barton
Rick Barton was the first Assistant Secretary of State for Conflict and Stabilization Operations (2011-14), U.S. Ambassador to the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations in New York (2009-11), Senior Advisor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (2002-9), Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees at UNHCR (1999-2001), founding Director of USAID’s Office of Transition Initiatives (1994-9). He is currently the Co-Director of the Princeton Woodrow Wilson School Scholars in the Nation’s Service Initiative. His book, Peace Works – America’s Unifying Role in a Turbulent World, was published in 2018.
Jorge Bernal
Jorge Bernal is a Software IT Engineer, teacher at the Tecnologico de Monterrey and an Entrepreneur. With experience in managing IT companies in America, Europe and North Africa. With more than 35 years in the IT business and more than 12 years managing multinational offices and creating startups.
Divya Chander
Dr. Chander is a physician, neuroscientist, and futurist who trained at Harvard, UCSD, UCSF, and the Salk Institute, and is the Co-Chair and Director of One Shared World’s global health task force. She is Chair of Neuroscience and Faculty of Medicine at Singularity University, Visiting Scholar in Medicine at Stanford (where she was on faculty for 8 years), Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council GeoTech Center, founder and CEO of lucidify, a tele-neuroICU platform and Founder and CMO of Plexxus, a company building the world’s connected global immune system. Dr. Chander also serves on a NASA-White House task force for COVID-19. Her research interests center around mapping human consciousness. In 2004, she was a finalist for astronaut selection, and has since maintained a passion for building medical systems in space to sustain human exploration.
Rachel Cooper
Rachel Cooper is a cultural and arts producer working on the development of international and interdisciplinary projects, through live performance, film, and literature. She is Director of Global Cultural Diplomacy at Asia Society and is on the Board of Cambodian Living Arts. She was on the Executive Committee for Ben Barber’s Interdependence Movement and advisory committee for Centerstage global exchange. Cooper was awarded a Best Practices Award for Citizen Cultural Diplomacy, Manhattan Borough Award for presenting diversity, and a Dawson Award for Performing Arts Programmatic Excellence from the Association of Performing Arts Professionals (APAP).
Jaqueline Davis
Jacqueline Davis is Executive Director Emerita of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center, the former Executive Director of the Lied Center of Kansas, a former staff member of Senator Edward Kennedy, and Chair of Benjamin Barber’s Executive Committee on Global Interdependence.
Vishakha Desai
Dr. Vishakha Desai is senior Advisor for Global Affairs to the President and Vice Chair of the Committee in Global Thought at Columbia University. Prior to joining Columbia, she was President and CEO of Asia Society. A scholar of Asian arts and culture, and a recipient of five honorary degrees, Dr. Desai is a frequent contributor to international publications on issues dealing with the intersection of culture, politics, women’s leadership and contemporary Asian art and culture. She is currently working on her memoir, to be published by Columbia University Press in early 2021, with a focus on global belonging.
Lucia Ferreira
Lucia Ferreira leads Russell Reynolds Associates’ non-profit team in New York and co-heads the firm’s Global Development Practice. She conducts Board and senior executive assignments for domestic and international nonprofit organizations with a focus on economic & social advancement and inclusion, global health, education and youth development, civil and human rights, and conservation and the environment.
Lucia was previously based in the London and Paris offices and led the firm’s European Banking, Markets and Private Equity Practice. She is active in searches that cut across the private and nonprofit sectors and is also a member of the firm’s Diversity and Inclusion and Leadership and Assessment Practices. Lucia has led senior level projects involving succession planning, Board development, and broad organizational assessments.
Lucia joined Russell Reynolds Associates in 1996. She has chaired the firm’s Learning and Development Committee and was a Member of the firm’s Global Executive Committee. Prior to executive search, she was in the Corporate Finance Department of Smith, Barney, Harris Upham & Co., Inc., in New York and London.
Lucia received her A.B. in economics and political science from Yale University and her MBA from Columbia Business School. A dual national of Brazil and the United Kingdom, she is fluent in Portuguese, English, French and Spanish.
Lucia serves on the Board of the National Book Foundation and is a member of the Economic Club of New York.
Sandi Gendi
Sandi Gendi is a OneShared.World Director of Global Leadership and acts as a lead coordinator for our WASHPAP team. Sandi is a student of law at Queens University, Faculty of Law in Ontario, Canada. Prior to that, she studied a joint Honours degree in Law with Business and Management from the University of Sussex in the U.K. Sandi has been an active member of community legal clinic, StreetLaw, in advocating for members of the homeless community and ethnic minorities suffering with homelessness, against a piece of legislation that targeted these communities. In addition, Sandi has been an active member of the Friendship Ambassadors Foundation, as an ambassador to multiple Youth Assembly conferences and an intern working with the United Nations-affiliated NGO. Recently, in 2021, she founded Nunah, a platform for women of colour, created by women of colour to find support, mentorship and community.
Mateo Gomez-Angulo
Mateo is a student at Dalhousie University in Halifax with a major in Political Science with a focus in international politics. Mateo is also the Director of Global Administration and is a communications coordinator with OneShared.World.
Judi Kilachand
Judi Kilachand has over 35 years of experience in the nonprofit and corporate worlds. A seasoned leader in institutional development, Judi has overseen projects spanning business, the arts, philanthropy, cultural diplomacy and education. Judi is currently Vice Chair of the Battery Dance Board; Senior Advisor of the Mirabilis Institute for Regenerative Action (MIRA — a research and design collective focused on urban innovation); member of the Advisors’ Circle of Asia Society France; former Executive Director of Friends of Hermione — Lafayette in America; and former Executive Director of Asia Society Global Business Development, Asia Corporate Conferences & Business Programs.
Michael Kulma
Michael Kulma serves as Executive Director of OneShared.World. Previously, Michael was the Senior Director for Global Programs & Resource Development at NAFSA: Association of International Educators. In that capacity, he was responsible for managing the research and scholarship agenda for the organization, leading intellectual collaboration across departments to develop high-quality learning resources and publications relevant to the field of international education. Michael also oversaw NAFSA’s global programming portfolio. Prior to joining NAFSA, Michael worked at the University of Chicago as Associate Vice President for Global Engagement, where he oversaw four different areas, including global centers, initiatives and partnerships, operations, and external relations and communications. Before coming to the university, Michael worked for over thirteen years at the Asia Society, most recently as Executive Director for Global Leadership Initiatives. Michael has a background in policy, media, and academic research and writing and has contributed to print and broadcast media on Asia-focused issues. He holds a BA in economics from the University of Chicago, a master’s in public and international affairs from the University of Pittsburgh, and a Ph.D. in political science from the City University of New York.
Jim Marggraff
Jim Marggraff is a serial inventor, entrepreneur, philanthropist, author, speaker, and a proud dad and husband.
Jim has founded and co-founded 6 Silicon Valley technology companies, and is launching #7. Jim’s companies and inventions include fast-packet switching, Stratacom (co-founder), the Odyssey Atlasphere at Explore Technologies (co-founder) the LeapFrog
LeapPad (co-founder), the Livescribe Smartpen (founder), and eye-tracking technology, Eyefluence (co-founder) that he recently sold to Google. He holds over 40 issued patents, is an Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year, one of MIT’s top 150 inventors, and was declared a Father of the Year by the National Father’s Day Council.
Jim was recognized as a STAR Humanitarian Award Recipient and the 2018 Rotarian of the Year by Rotary by the Lamorinda Sunrise Rotary. He recently spoke on education and technology to over 30,000 Rotarians, and led Rotary International to adopt Virtual Reality, in a partnership with Google, to address peace and polio, setting a world record with over 3,000 simultaneous, co-located VR viewers. With a team of Rotarians, Jim recently co-founded The Global Impact Group, a new non-profit helping organizations adopt technology for social impact.
Jim has been on the TED main stage twice, has been covered by the NY Times, WSJ, The Atlantic, USA Today, Entrepreneur, The New Yorker, Fortune, Wired, Yahoo News, The Rotarian, and hundreds of other periodicals, conferences, blogs and broadcast media including Oprah, Good Morning America, The Today Show, Bloomberg, Fox, CNN and more.
Jim’s recent book, “How to Raise a Founder with Heart” has been recognized by Forbes as a best book for startup founders and first time entrepreneurs, and was quoted by Tony Robbins as “A tremendous pleasure to read. Jim has nailed it.”
Jim is currently advising MoJo Vision, Foresight Mental Health, Lifekind, and Jibb, and is on the boards or advising nonprofits The Gratitude Network, Team Gleason, The Global Impact Group, and OneShared.World.
Jamie Metzl
Jamie Metzl is a leading technology and geopolitical expert. A science fiction novelist, faculty member of Singularity University Exponential Medicine, and Senior Fellow of the Atlantic Council, he was appointed in 2019 to the World Health Organization expert advisory committee on human genome editing. Jamie previously served in the U.S. National Security Council, State Department, and Senate Foreign Relations Committee and with the United Nations in Cambodia. Jamie appears regularly on national and international media discussing global issues and his syndicated columns and other writing are featured in publications around the world. He is the author of a history of the Cambodian genocide, the historical novel The Depths of the Sea, and the genetics sci-fi thrillers Genesis Code and Eternal Sonata, and the recent bestseller, Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity. An avid ironman triathlete and ultramarathoner, Jamie holds a Ph.D. from Oxford, a law degree from Harvard Law School, and is a graduate of Brown University.
Meena Narula
Meena is a cross functional specialist and has over 25 years of international development experience in India, Egypt, Cambodia and Vietnam. Meena has held various leadership positions and is driven to achieve social impact through effective use of data and evidence; improved program design, implementation, replication and scale; and advocacy and policy influence efforts. During this time, she has also led the creation, representation and contribution to networks, coalitions, academic and technical support organisations in India. Meena was associated with the Aga Khan Foundation, Plan International (India Chapter) and most recently led Water For People’s operations in India. During the course of her careers, in addition to managing international funding partnerships, notably with the European Union, Canadian International Development Agency, Swedish International Development Agency, Aga Khan Foundation, Meena also established long term programmatic and funding partnerships with the Indian Foundations, Trusts and Corporates. Currently, at StratComm Consulting (India), Meena advises on the policy and partnerships linked work, and is currently engaged as a Senior Strategist for the Strategic Review to inform the development of the India Country Strategic Plan for Malala Fund.
Manoj Panjwani
Manoj Panjwani has over 25 years of international banking experience with HSBC across Asia, Europe and North America. During this time, he held several senior leadership positions in business, strategy, and risk management. Manoj is now engaged in the social enterprise sector and advises in the areas of strategy, risk management, governance, and operational efficiency. He is particularly passionate about education, sustainability, and youth development. Manoj currently serves on the board of Knology, a research-driven think tank based in NYC, and on the Alumni Advisory Council at Columbia University’s School of Professional Studies. He is also a member of Impact Capital Forum in NYC, Columbia Sustainable Finance Professionals Network, and the NYC Chapter of Risk Management Association.
Omar Sana
Omar Sana is the founder of Inveniam Consulting, a Toronto-based consultancy firm working with individual and institutional clients, primarily from the asset management industry. Prior to that he worked in property development, where he was involved in project forecasting, strategic development, and financing. Building off a background in financial analysis, research and analytics, and corporate development, Omar is eager to bring those skillsets to the OneShared.World community.
His passion for sustainability stems from prior experience working on green development projects, and more recently through consultancy work with leaders in the ESG investment space. Omar is also keenly interested in non-profit work. He is a member of the Global Sustainability Network, a coalition of business leaders and institutions, including the Vatican and the Church of England, which is focused on achieving goal 8 of the UN SDGs with a particular focus on the eradication of modern slavery. He is also a member of SWAaT — the Social Welfare Academics and Training Trust — a non-profit focused on providing psychological treatment, educational opportunities, and vocational training to deradicalized Pakistani youth.
Omar graduated with distinction from the John Molson School of Business at Concordia University with a Bachelors in Finance.
Shagun Sethi
Shagun Sethi, is the Programs and Operations Manager at Pontoka, a global Environment Social Governance Advisory, based in Denmark and India.
She has a master’s degree in Global Affairs from Columbia University, where she studied on a merit fellowship. Prior to that, she studied Political Science and Sociology at The University of Delhi. Shagun has experience as a researcher and consultant on social impact and development projects and has worked for national and international consultancies, policy think tanks, government bodies and nonprofits in this capacity.
Shagun serves as a Director For Global Leadership for One Shared World, and is on the Advisory Board of the Center for Career Development. For her work on global leadership and development, she has been recognized on India’s A list. Shagun is a passionate feminist, and has brought her expertise in research to Urban Design, and serves as a Research Fellow at Leading Cities, Boston USA, where she has published ‘Walk With Women: Gendered Perceptions of Safety in Urban Spaces’.
Shagun is passionate about women’s rights and gender, and was invited to give a TEDx Talk in 2016, she also started a non-profit initiative in India entitled ‘Be A Man’, which aims to provide original curricula on gender stereotypes and empower women with information. Recently, in 2021, she founded Nunah, a platform for women of colour, created by women of colour to find support, mentorship and community.
Jack Sim
Jack Sim is the founder of the Restroom Association of Singapore, the World Toilet Organization, the World Toilet Day initiative and Bottom of the Pyramid (BoP) Hub. Jack was named one of 2008 the Heroes of the Environment by Time magazine.
Michelle A. Williams
Michelle A. Williams is Dean of the Faculty, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Angelopoulos Professor in Public Health and International Development, a joint faculty appointment at the Harvard Chan School and Harvard Kennedy School. She is an internationally renowned epidemiologist and public health scientist, an award-winning educator, and a widely recognized academic leader.