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Technology has introduced and promoted new ways of shaping global narratives, but these have brought their own challenges. In May 2022, the ATLANTIC INSTITUTE hosted a webinar with ROBERT REICH, former US Secretary for Labor and co-founder of Inequality Media (https://www.inequalitymedia.org/team) to discuss NARRATIVE SHIFT IN THE DIGITAL AGE. INTRODUCTION I Evie O'Brien, Executive Director, Atlantic Institute MODERATOR | TANYA CHARLES, Atlantic Fellow for Social & Economic Equity. The ATLANTIC INSTITUTE is based in Oxford, England and works to promote connection and collaboration among Fellows from the seven Atlantic equity-focused programs around the world in the pursuit of fairer, healthier, more inclusive societies. https://www.atlanticfellows.org/

In August 2021, the ATLANTIC INSTITUTE appointed DR AMARA ENYIA and Atlantic Fellow TRACY JOOSTE as Leaders-in- Residence. One of their tasks was to assess the landscape of policy and policy change across the global Atlantic Fellows community. In this podcast, moderated by Atlantic Fellow KAREN MEENAN, they discuss their findings in conversation with Elder and social activist JAY NAIDOO. MODERATOR | Karen MEENAN, Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health SPEAKERS (1) Tracy JOOSTE, Head of Special Projects, International Budget Partnership (IBP), South Africa & Atlantic Fellow for Social and Economic Equity. (2) Dr Amara ENYIA, Managing Director, Global Black & Policy & Research Manager, Movement for Black Lives. (3) Jay NAIDOO, Elder, social activist & founding General Secretary, Congress of South African Trade Unions & Board Member, Mo Ibrahim Foundation. The ATLANTIC INSTITUTE is based in Oxford, England and works to promote connection and collaboration among Fellows from the seven Atlantic equity-focused programmes around the world in the pursuit of fairer, healthier, more inclusive societies.

ATLANTIC FELLOWS | KOTCHAKORN VORAAKHOM & JOHNNY MILLER In this conversation, landscape architect KOTCHAKORN VORAAKHOM, Atlantic Fellow for Health Equity in Southeast Asia, and photographer and filmmaker JOHNNY MILLER, Atlantic Fellow for Social and Economic Equity, discuss their work exposing and addressing social and economic inequities. Produced by StoryCorps in collaboration with the Atlantic Institute.

ATLANTIC FELLOWS | BETSY HODGES & MAUREEN SIGAUKE In this conversation, BETSY HODGES, Atlantic Fellow for Racial Equity, and MAUREEN SIGAUKE, Atlantic Fellow for Social and Economic Equity, discuss their work fighting against racism and for marginalized communities. Betsy is a former Mayor of the US city of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Maureen is a social justice and labor activist who lives in Harare, Zimbabwe. Produced by StoryCorps in collaboration with the Atlantic Institute.

ATLANTIC FELLOWS | DURKHANAI AYUBI & DANA WALRATH In this conversation, DURKHANAI AYUBI, Atlantic Fellow for Social Equity, and DANA WALRATH, Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health, discuss the power of narrative and storytelling in their work. Dana is a writer, artist and anthropologist whose family came to the US as refugees from Armenia. She has written books about the Armenian Genocide and her mother’s dementia. Durkhanai is a restaurateur and writer whose family fled from Afghanistan to Australia when she was a baby. She recently published a cookbook called Parwana: Recipes and Stories from an Afghan Kitchen. Produced by StoryCorps in collaboration with the Atlantic Institute.

ATLANTIC FELLOWS | TALA AL-ROUSAN & JOSH KORNBLUTH In this conversation, Atlantic Fellows for Equity in Brain Health TALA AL-ROUSAN and JOSH KORNBLUTH discuss their shared work around health and empathy. Tala works with refugees and displaced people around the world. Josh is a writer, performer, and filmmaker whose current work aims to connect brain science and social justice. The Global Brain Health Institute, where they are both Fellows, works to protect the world’s vulnerable and under-served aging population from threats to brain health. Produced by StoryCorps in collaboration with the Atlantic Institute.

ATLANTIC FELLOWS | LAWRENCE ARITAO & SARAH HOOPER In this conversation, Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity, LAWRENCE ARITAO and SARAH HOOPER, share stories about advancing equity in the work they do. Law—who is based in Manila, Philippines — works to defend human trafficking survivors in court. Sarah works on health advocacy in San Francisco. She is Executive Director of the UC Hastings Consortium on Law, Science and Health Policy at the University of California San Francisco. She is also lecturer in Law at the UC Hastings College of the Law. The law school has a clinic that provides free legal assistance to low-income patients in the health care system. Produced by StoryCorps in collaboration with the Atlantic Institute.

BEING HUMAN WHEN DIGITAL 02 | NARRATIVE CHANGE Join Atlantic Fellow FIONNUALA SWEENEY in conversation with ALICE WROE, Augmented and Virtual Realities Lead at the ATLANTIC INSTITUTE, as they discuss the use of augmented and virtual realities to effect narrative change. Featuring American journalist and film maker NONNY DE LA PENA, Founder and CEO of Emblematic Group, and DYLAN VALLEY, South African film maker and Atlantic Fellow for Racial Equity. BEING HUMAN WHEN DIGITAL PODCAST SERIES (1) Introduction (2) Narrative Change (3) The Creative & Activist Potential of Virtual Space (4) Virtual Health (5) Indigenous Approaches (6) Ethical Issues FURTHER INFORMATION | www.atlanticfellows.org/

BEING HUMAN WHEN DIGITAL 03 | CREATIVE & ACTIVIST POTENTIAL OF VIRTUAL SPACE Join Atlantic Fellow FIONNUALA SWEENEY in conversation with ALICE WROE, Augmented and Virtual Realities Lead at the ATLANTIC INSTITUTE, as they discuss the creative and activist potential of virtual space. Featuring SHARI FRILOT, Chief Curator, New Frontier, Sundance, and CEDRIC BROWN, Atlantic Fellow for Racial Equity. BEING HUMAN WHEN DIGITAL PODCAST SERIES (1) Introduction (2) Narrative Change (3) The Creative & Activist Potential of Virtual Space (4) Virtual Health (5) Indigenous Approaches (6) Ethical Issues FURTHER INFORMATION | www.atlanticfellows.org/

BEING HUMAN WHEN DIGITAL 06 | ETHICAL ISSUES Join Atlantic Fellow FIONNUALA SWEENEY in conversation with WILNEIDA NEGRON, Strategic Advisor to the Ford Foundation and Atlantic Fellow for Racial Equity, as they discuss the ethical concerns that ran through the series, BEING HUMAN WHEN DIGITAL. BEING HUMAN WHEN DIGITAL PODCAST SERIES (1) Introduction (2) Narrative Change (3) The Creative & Activist Potential of Virtual Space (4) Virtual Health (5) Indigenous Approaches (6) Ethical Issues FURTHER INFORMATION | www.atlanticfellows.org/

BEING HUMAN WHEN DIGITAL 05 | INDIGENOUS APPROACHES Join Atlantic Fellow FIONNUALA SWEENEY in conversation with ALICE WROE, Augmented and Virtual Realities Lead at the ATLANTIC INSTITUTE, as they discuss indigenous approaches to the use of AR and VR. Featuring MIKAELA JADE, CEO, Indigital, and SHANE WEBSTER, Atlantic Fellow for Social Equity. BEING HUMAN WHEN DIGITAL PODCAST SERIES (1) Introduction (2) Narrative Change (3) The Creative & Activist Potential of Virtual Space (4) Virtual Health (5) Indigenous Approaches (6) Ethical Issues FURTHER INFORMATION | www.atlanticfellows.org/

BEING HUMAN WHEN DIGITAL 04 | USE OF AR & VR IN HEALTHCARE Join Atlantic Fellow FIONNUALA SWEENEY in conversation with ALICE WROE, Augmented and Virtual Realities Lead at the ATLANTIC INSTITUTE, as they discuss the use of AR and VR in healthcare. Featuring DEEPA MANN-KLER, Chief Executive, Neon, and JEREMY LIM, Atlantic Fellow for Health Equity in Southeast Asia. BEING HUMAN WHEN DIGITAL PODCAST SERIES (1) Introduction (2) Narrative Change (3) The Creative & Activist Potential of Virtual Space (4) Virtual Health (5) Indigenous Approaches (6) Ethical Issues FURTHER INFORMATION | www.atlanticfellows.org/

BEING HUMAN WHEN DIGITAL 01 | INTRODUCTION Join Atlantic Fellow FIONNUALA SWEENEY in conversation with ALICE WROE, Augmented and Virtual Realities Lead at the ATLANTIC INSTITUTE. Alice talks about how the series, BEING HUMAN WHEN DIGITAL, was born out of the Atlantic community's exploration of the use of augmented and virtual realities and the ethical issues that raises. As Augmented and Virtual Realities Lead, Alice is concerned with how emerging technologies can strengthen the Atlantic community's collective work of addressing root causes of systemic inequities as well as how the Atlantic community can work together, while physically apart, to become a force for social good. BEING HUMAN WHEN DIGITAL PODCAST SERIES (1) Introduction (2) Narrative Change (3) The Creative & Activist Potential of Virtual Space (4) Virtual Health (5) Indigenous Approaches (6) Ethical Issues FURTHER INFORMATION | www.atlanticfellows.org/

The ATLANTIC INSTITUTE and ATLANTIC PROGRAMS are hosting a series of webinars about our world post COVID-19. While the coronavirus has physically distanced and isolated millions of people, it has more than ever in our lifetimes, drawn people and organisations together under a common humanity and a profoundly collective commitment to act. In this series of webinars, we turn our imagination to something (k)new where we remember, reflect and shape what our local and global futures might look like post COVID-19. In this webinar, the speakers discuss the use of social media in mobilizing for change: (1) JESSICA HORN, feminist activist, strategist, writer and philanthropic consultant; and (2) BIBI-AISHA WADVALLA, South African journalist and Atlantic Fellow for Health Equity in South Africa. MODERATOR | TANYA CHARLES, Atlantic Fellow for Social and Economic Equity and Program and Impact Lead, Atlantic Institute.

Join Atlantic Fellow FIONNUALA SWEENEY in conversation with two of today's leading futurists and cutting-edge thinkers, transmedia artist STEPHANIE DINKINS (Kusama Endowed Professor in Art, Stony Brook University, New York)and political scientist Professor SOHAIL INAYATULLAHI (Graduate Institute of Futures Studies, Tamkang University, Taipei) as they discuss the meaning of community and how a globally disparate community might flourish in the future. With closing remarks from EVIE O'BRIEN, Executive Director, Atlantic Institute. The ATLANTIC INSTITUTE is based in Oxford, England and works to promote connection and collaboration among Fellows from the seven Atlantic equity-focused programmes around the world in their quest for fairer, healthier, more inclusive societies. FURTHER INFORMATION Atlantic Fellows | https://www.atlanticfellows.org/

SESSION 3 - 02.10.20 | FROM PARADIGM TO PRAXIS - TOOLS FOR DECOLONIAL AFRICAN HEALTH SYSTEMS & POLICY RESEARCH Globally, decoloniality requires researchers and practitioners located in Africa to build and develop collective capacities and knowledge archives that centres Africa and African people. This Convening foregrounds African people as experts, and provides us with an opportunity to highlight our own solutions to the challenges faced on the African continent in the area of African Health Policy and Systems Research (HPSR). This Convening was co-sponsored by HEALTH SYSTEMS GLOBAL (HSG), the ATLANTIC INSTITUTE, TEKANO, CHESAI and WITS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH, UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND. CONVENORS SHEHNAZ MUNSHI (University of the Witwatersrand), LANCE LOUSKETIER (University of Cape Town) & KENTSE RADEBE (University of Cape Town), ATLANTIC FELLOWS FOR HEALTH EQUITY. CONVENING FACILITATORS (1) TANYA CHARLES, ATLANTIC FELLOW FOR SOCIAL & ECONOMIC EQUITY, Program and Impact Lead, ATLANTIC INSTITUTE. (2) PHILIPPA NAMUTEBI KABALI-KAGWA, poet & storyteller. SESSION 3 | SPEAKERS (1) TANYA CHARLES (Facilitator), ATLANTIC FELLOW FOR SOCIAL & ECONOMIC EQUITY, Program and Impact Lead, ATLANTIC INSTITUTE. (2) JESSICA HORN, feminist activist, writer & consultant on women’s rights (3) MASANA NDINGA-KANGA, Programme Manager, Centre for the Study of Violence & Reconciliation in South Africa, ATLANTIC FELLOW FOR SOCIAL & ECONOMIC EQUITY, LSE. (4) LANCE LOUSKETIER, PhD Candidate, Health Systems & Policy Research Division, School of Public Health & Family Medicine, University of Cape Town; queer activist, decolonial scholar, & advocate for the decriminalization of sex work in South Africa; ATLANTIC FELLOW FOR HEALTH EQUITY, Tekano, University of Cape Town. READINGS & MUSIC | Sometimes I fear writing, Grada Kilomba | She will sing me a wordless song, Philippa Namutebi Kabali-Kagwa.

SESSION 2 - 01.10.20 | CREATING AN AFRICAN PROJECT - RETHINKING THE CONFIGURATION OF KNOWLEDGE TO ADVANCE AFRICAN HEALTH & HEALTH SYSTEMS Globally, decoloniality requires researchers and practitioners located in Africa to build and develop collective capacities and knowledge archives that centres Africa and African people. This Convening foregrounds African people as experts, and provides us with an opportunity to highlight our own solutions to the challenges faced on the African continent in the area of African Health Policy and Systems Research (HPSR). This Convening was co-sponsored by HEALTH SYSTEMS GLOBAL (HSG), the ATLANTIC INSTITUTE, TEKANO, CHESAI and WITS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH, UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND. CONVENORS SHEHNAZ MUNSHI (University of the Witwatersrand), LANCE LOUSKETIER (University of Cape Town) & KENTSE RADEBE (University of Cape Town), ATLANTIC FELLOWS FOR HEALTH EQUITY. CONVENING FACILITATORS (1) TANYA CHARLES, ATLANTIC FELLOW FOR SOCIAL & ECONOMIC EQUITY, Program and Impact Lead, ATLANTIC INSTITUTE. (2) PHILIPPA NAMUTEBI KABALI-KAGWA, poet & storyteller. SESSION 2 | SPEAKERS (1)DR KUI MURAYA (Facilitator), Post-Doctoral Social Scientist, KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme. (2) CLARA AFFUN-ADEGBULU, PhD Candidate, University of Antwerp; researcher, Institute of Tropical Medicine. (3) DR IRENE AKUA AGYEPONG, School of Public Health, University of Ghana. (4) PROF SIMUKAI CHIGUDU, Associate Professor, African Politics, University of Oxford. (5) PROF PASCALE ALLOTEY, Director, United Nations University International Institute for Global Health. READINGS | Invocation, Lebogang Mashile.

SESSION 1 - 30.09.20 | EXPLORING THE INTERSECTION BETWEEN DECOLONIALITY & AFRICAN HEALTH SYSTEMS - A CONVERSATION IN 'POST-COLONIAL' AFRICA Globally, decoloniality requires researchers and practitioners located in Africa to build and develop collective capacities and knowledge archives that centres Africa and African people. This Convening foregrounds African people as experts, and provides us with an opportunity to highlight our own solutions to the challenges faced on the African continent in the area of African Health Policy and Systems Research (HPSR). This Convening was co-sponsored by HEALTH SYSTEMS GLOBAL (HSG), the ATLANTIC INSTITUTE, TEKANO, CHESAI and WITS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH, UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND. CONVENORS SHEHNAZ MUNSHI (University of the Witwatersrand), LANCE LOUSKETIER (University of Cape Town) & KENTSE RADEBE (University of Cape Town), ATLANTIC FELLOWS FOR HEALTH EQUITY. CONVENING FACILITATORS (1) TANYA CHARLES, ATLANTIC FELLOW FOR SOCIAL & ECONOMIC EQUITY, Program and Impact Lead, ATLANTIC INSTITUTE. (2) PHILIPPA NAMUTEBI KABALI-KAGWA, poet & storyteller. SESSION 1 | SPEAKERS (1) PROF LAETITIA RISPEL (Facilitator), School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand. (2) DR FAISAL GARBA, Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Co-convenor, Global Studies Program, University of Cape Town. (3) PROF ELELWANI RAMUGONDO, Division of Occupational Therapy, University of Cape Town. (4) HANNAH MUTHONI RYDER, CEO, Development Reimagined. (5) JEAN-PAUL DOSSOU, Director, Centre de Recherche en Reproduction Humaine et en Démographie (CERRHUD). (6) SHEHNAZ MUNSHI, Research Project Manager/Lecturer, Sheiham Family/Wits Programme on Social Determinants of Health and Health Inequality, University of the Witwatersrand; ATLANTIC FELLOW FOR HEALTH EQUITY. READINGS & MUSIC | Love in a Time of Ebola, Philippa Namutebi Kabali-Kagwa | Invocation, Lebogang Mashile.

The ATLANTIC INSTITUTE and ATLANTIC PROGRAMS are hosting a series of webinars about our world post COVID-19. While the coronavirus has physically distanced and isolated millions of people, it has more than ever in our life-times, drawn people and organisations together under a common humanity and a profoundly collective commitment to act. In this series of webinars, we turn our imagination to something (k)new where we remember, reflect and shape what our local and global futures might look like post COVID-19. In this webinar, the speakers discuss addressing climate change in a post COVID-19 world: (1) DR DAVID SCHIMEL, Senior Research Scientist & Technical Group Supervisor, Carbon Cycle & Ecosystems, Jet Propulsion Lab, CALTECH; (2) DR MUSTAFA SANTIAGO ALI, Vice President of Environmental Justice, Climate & Community Revitalization, National Wildlife Federation, Founder & CEO Revitalization Strategies; and (3) JACQUI PATTERSON, Senior Director, NAACP Environmental & Climate Justice Program. MODERATOR | TANYA CHARLES, Atlantic Fellow for Social and Economic Equity and Program and Impact Lead, Atlantic Institute.

The ATLANTIC INSTITUTE and ATLANTIC PROGRAMS are hosting a series of webinars about our world post COVID-19. While the coronavirus has physically distanced and isolated millions of people, it has more than ever in our life-times, drawn people and organisations together under a common humanity and a profoundly collective commitment to act. In this series of webinars, we turn our imagination to something (k)new where we remember, reflect and shape what our local and global futures might look like post COVID-19. In this webinar, the speakers discuss anti-racist leadership, in particular commitment, action and sustainability: (1) ELIZABETH CREWS, Director, Democracy Beyond Elections, Participatory Budgeting Project; (2) BETSY HODGES, 47th Mayor of Minneapolis and Atlantic Fellow for Racial Equity; and (3) DR LEYLA HUSSEIN OBE, psychotherapist, Founder of The Dahlia Project, and Rector of the University of St Andrews. MODERATOR | TANYA CHARLES, Atlantic Fellow for Social and Economic Equity and Program and Impact Lead, Atlantic Institute.