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Mobilizing a Movement: More in Common

Wednesday, April 5, 2017

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Session Description

For many of us, the world feels upside down. Fault lines appear to be deepening and widening, between countries and within the communities we call home. How will we stop working against each other and begin to come together? “We are far more united and have far more in common with each other than that which divides us,” said the late MP Jo Cox. In this workshop, we’ll collaborate to identify scalable solutions for more inclusive societies that look past our differences and embrace our common humanity.


Speaker(s):
  • Co-Founder, The New Constellation, Crisis Action
    Gemma is an award-winning social entrepreneur, thinker and practitioner in transformative, social change. She is currently incubating The New Constellation project which explores the ideas and initiatives we need to break through to new social, environmental and economic paradigms. She is Co-Founder and Vice-Chair of More In Common and a member of the Boards of Bite Back 2030 and The HALO Trust. She was previously Chief Global Officer at Change.org, the world’s largest platform for social change, and CEO of Crisis Action. She lives on Dartmoor which she loves exploring with her young family.
  • Co-founder, Purpose Europe, Purpose
    Tim Dixon is the co-founder and managing director of Purpose Europe, based in London. Since 2015 he and Brendan Cox have been building an ambitious new initiative focused on changing hearts and minds in Europe and globally around the refugee crisis through opinion research, message development, popular movement-building and campaigning to reach mainstream audiences to counter the rising tide of xenophobia and nativism. The first initiative they have co-founded is More In Common, a grassroots community-building movement in the UK. Purpose is a home for building movements that harness technology to engage large numbers of people and help make progress on major global problems. Tim has led projects in more than 20 countries since joining Purpose’s New York office in 2011, including projects as diverse as the Syrian crisis, modern-day slavery, gun control and economic reform. In 2014 he co-founded The Syria Campaign, a leading advocacy organisation for Syrians. Before joining Purpose, Tim worked for two Australian Prime Ministers as senior economic adviser and chief speechwriter between 2007 and 2010. He has a professional background as an economist and as an attorney at global law firm Baker & McKenzie. He is the co-author of the two best-selling economics textbooks in Australia, where he grew up, and the founder of Leading Edge Education, a publishing business acquired by Pearson in 2004.

Time & Location

Time:
1:30 PM - 2:45 PM, Wednesday, April 5, 2017
Location:
Classroom 2 (WW)