we’re creating a world where every lived experience
fuels a global movement for empathy, justice, and a cohesive society.
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Modern societies are increasingly fragmented along cultural, political, socioeconomic, and generational lines. This fragmentation is reinforced by media that often presents single‑sided, one-dimensional polarized narratives.
Current media reinforces existing dominant worldviews, leaving the lived experiences, traditions, and cultures of many community members unseen and unheard.
A lack of cultural exchanges results in cultural misunderstandings, stereotypes, and conflicts entrenched in ideology rather than understanding.
Without shared understanding, citizens cannot mobilize for collective action across the many social, environmental, and cultural challenges in the world. Nor can we live in a cohesive society.
We transform fragmented perspectives into a unified experience‑driven movement that cultivates empathy, justice, and a cohesive society.
Through strategic partnerships, grant funding, and storytelling, we:
Amplify under‑represented cultures, traditions, and worldviews so they become mainstream dialogue.
Create gathering spaces where people can encounter, experience, and reflect on those stories to create shared understanding.
Translate these collective narratives into actionable public dialogue that create shared understanding and collective action, including advocacy, activism, and policy.
Together, we’re here for change.
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Vanessa Ferlaino
President
Vanessa is an award-winning author, music artist, host/producer, and activist-philanthropist. Her professional career spans a decade in investment and social finance, known for her record-breaking capital raises. Vanessa comes from immigrant family members on both lineages, as a half-Mexican and half-Italian.
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Neda Rezvany
Board of Directors: Secretary
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Saadia Syed
Board of Directors: Treasurer
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