Social Innovation. Activism. Systems Change
Fabric of Change
Transforming Global Apparel Industry in partnership with C&A Foundation
Accelerating Innovation for Resilience
Well-being Capital
Social innovation to solve the gap between living and real wage of 4 million workers in Bangladesh's apparel industry in partnership with Levi Strauss Foundation
Accelerating innovation to solve for displaced communities in phase of climate change, conflicts and economic crisis in Bangladesh in partnership with the USAID
Empathy Lab
The Meghalaya Model
The Meghalaya Model is an implemented Theory of Change to solve the issue of unsafe migration and human trafficking of Indigenous people across Bangladesh, Myanmar, Nepal, and Northeast India, developed for INGON
Empathy Lab was launched as a model to use creative skills such as art and poetry to nurture empathy among 100,000 young children. The model was adapted by BRAC University and disseminated through BRAC school system in Bangladesh
Sporshok - against violence
Sporshok was a 5-year initiative created to bring 'rapid youth action' against domestic violence in Dhaka. Mobilising 100,000 school children to identify, report and act against violence. Sporshok was a featured project in CNN's Freedom Project
My story
I am an anthropologist, an aspiring social scientist, systems thinker, and 'occasionally lucky' photographer who loves to explore and collect stories from places that often live on the edges of climate change, politics, and various forms of oppression. I work with communities that are either forgotten or forbidden and where identity is created and changed.
My work examines the genealogies of power in marginal and borderland communities, focusing on how Indigenous systems are systematically subordinated through governance technologies. Drawing on over a decade of professional/academic engagement, my work integrates ethnographic depth with policy-relevant insights on biodiversity conservation, epistemological sovereignty, and relational governance. I have designed and led social innovation programs addressing complex challenges such as unsafe migration, emotional intelligence/social cohesion, inclusion, climate resilience, and well-being capital systems.
I am a storyteller and listener of cultural and environmental narratives of people and communities that are often excluded. An alumnus of the University of Cambridge, University of Freiburg, University of CapeTown and Nanyang Technological University.
I am a student who is learning everyday to shed fragments of inherited patriarchy through my son, and my wife.
