Samara Randhawa co-leads Ashoka's New Longevity initiative, which brings together more than 100 Ashoka Fellows across countries who are tackling the same challenge: how societies can enable lifelong health, purpose, and contribution. New Longevity spots patterns across the social innovations and organizes them into a coordinated force, pursuing the kind of systemic shifts no single organization could achieve alone. It treats longer lives as one of humanity's greatest untapped assets and works across care, work, learning, and policy to help societies catch up. 

In 19 years at Ashoka, Samara has worked alongside the organization's founder,  led organization-wide strategy and planning, and co-led global storytelling campaigns on youth changemaking. That range shapes how she works today: she makes complex systems easy to understand, turning big ideas into clear strategies, stories, and partnerships that people can act on. 

She is driven by the conviction at the heart of Ashoka's work: that everyone, at every age, has the power to create positive change. Samara is a certified Integral Coach and lives in Northern Virginia.