Ashoka Key Ideas

Browse the latest news and updates about what Ashoka is doing and thinking: stories, events, and a curated collection showcasing the top insights from Ashoka's global community of change leaders.

 

You can find the curated collection of insights below:

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The Maasai Changemaker: Rebecca's Changemaker Journey

Addressing climate change and environmental degradation in Kenya through student-led education and advocacy.
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How to Teach Empathy to Children

"Empathy comes naturally to a lot of people. It’s easy enough to feel bad for an employee who’s struggling with child care issues, or to bristle at the injustice of a colleague getting passed over for...
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How does nature-based education change the way we live?

Our ability to thrive as humans depends on understanding who we are: We are not separate from or superior to nature—we are in fact nature. But it’s not always obvious how that translates into our...
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When the rules of the game lead to climate change, change the rules

With COP26 just around the corner, we’re seeing a huge number of companies committing to reducing their carbon emissions to ‘net zero.’ This is encouraging and relatively new territory without many...
Public hearing in Roraima’s Chamber of Deputies.

Brazil's Indigenous Leaders Stand Up As Land Protectors

Indigenous groups and their allies across Brazil have been mobilizing amidst the Bolsonaro government’s latest brazen attempt to roll back indigenous rights and bolster the economic interests of...
Welcoming America

How we build welcoming communities as borders re-open (for some)

Ashoka Fellows David Lubell and Clara Jiménez Cruz bust myths on immigration and show why belonging begins with us.
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Six ways to bring people & planet back into balance

In a world where the rate of change is increasing exponentially and where the shelf life of solutions is diminishing rapidly, we must investigate a whole spectrum of insights across fields and...
Ali Raza Khan

Trust Young People to Lead

What if our schools were designed to let young people drive positive change around them? This question has been animating Ashoka Fellow Ali Raza Khan for nearly 20 years.
Debora Spar

How Technology Is Re-Shaping Our Families

With single parent, same-sex and platonic co-parent households on the rise, it’s clear that the nuclear family is undergoing a rapid transformation. Debora Spar, Senior Associate Dean of Harvard...
Gbenga Sesan

Nigeria’s Twitter ban and what it means for democracy

Ashoka’s Julia Kloiber spoke with Ashoka Fellow ‘Gbenga Sesan, founder of Paradigm HQ about building civic power and defending digital rights & inclusion across the African continent.