Arts / Cultural resources
bio: María Fernanda Loaiza Alvarez
Personal Information
First (Given) Name:
María Fernanda
Last (Family) Name:
Loaiza Alvarez
Country or Region:
Colombia
Organization:
Centro de Memoria Histórica
bio: sidd joag, director
Personal Information
First (Given) Name:
sidd
Last (Family) Name:
joag
Country or Region:
Western Europe & North America
Sidd comes from backgrounds in the visual arts and social sciences, having spent several years prior to joining fD, working with community arts projects in New York, India, China and co-founding an artist residency/exchange program in Southwestern China, focused on ethnic minority cultural preservation in the China-Burma borderlands.
Organization:
freeDimensional
bio: Rajasvini Bhansali
Personal Information
First (Given) Name:
Rajasvini
Last (Family) Name:
Bhansali
Country or Region:
United States of America
Rajasvini is passionate about building the capacity of people and organizations to facilitate participatory, rights-based and grassroots-led social change, and has worked in Kenya, India, United States and Canada.
Organization:
International Development Exchange (IDEX)
bio: ariane brunet
Personal Information
First (Given) Name:
ariane
Last (Family) Name:
brunet
Country or Region:
Canada
bio: Anna Luisa Daigneault
Personal Information
First (Given) Name:
Anna Luisa
Last (Family) Name:
Daigneault
Country or Region:
United States of America
Latin America Projects Coordinator & Organizational Fellow
Organization:
Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages
bio: Rhodri ap Dyfrig
Personal Information
First (Given) Name:
Rhodri
Last (Family) Name:
ap Dyfrig
Country or Region:
United Kingdom
I’m Rhodri ap Dyfrig (and also go by Nwdls online), and I’m studying for a PhD at Aberystwyth University (Dept.
Organization:
Aberystwyth University
bio: Mohomodou Houssouba
Personal Information
First (Given) Name:
Mohomodou
Last (Family) Name:
Houssouba
Country or Region:
Mali
Country or Region:
Switzerland
Place of birth: Bagoundié, Gao (Mali)
Residence: Basel, Switzerland
Academic background: creative writing, diaspora studies, applied linguistics, inter- and transcultural translation
Main languages: Songhay, English, French and German
Current occupation: writer, lecturer, translator
Organization:
Center for African Studies (ZASB/CASB) - University of Basel
bio: Shahjahan Siraj
Personal Information
First (Given) Name:
Shahjahan
Last (Family) Name:
Siraj
Country or Region:
Bangladesh
Shahjahan Siraj is a multimedia designer, local content producer and ICT4D practitioner in Bangladesh.
Organization:
Machizo Multimedia Communication
bio: Martin Benjamin
Personal Information
First (Given) Name:
Martin
Last (Family) Name:
Benjamin
Country or Region:
Switzerland
Dr. Martin Benjamin (martin at kamusi dot org) is the founder and executive director of the Kamusi Project, an international collaborative effort to produce learning and lexical resources for African languages.
Organization:
Kamusi Project International / Kamusi Project USA
bio: Maryam Eskandari
Personal Information
First (Given) Name:
Maryam
Last (Family) Name:
Eskandari
Country or Region:
United States of America
Maryam Eskandari is an Architect and a graduate of the Aga Khan Program in Islamic Architecture at Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a focus on modern and contemporary “Islamic” Architecture in the West, and in particular gendered aspects of devotional spaces.

