Nariman is a Senior Analyst at Open Development and Education. She brings 10+ years of experience in international (basic and tertiary) education, social innovation, higher education teaching, and agile and adaptive management/leadership. Her skills include facilitating social transformation processes, designing education programmes and learning experiences, catalysing innovations, leading critical participatory processes & community organising, policy analysis and research. She has worked on projects ranging from consulting governments on how to act better with limited resources to designing & facilitating experiential learning programs for world leaders around justice-based leadership approaches to creating global alliances and networks for re-imagining education. She is a founder and director of Mesahat: Liberating Learning Spaces (Cairo, Egypt), a network that envisions the creation of learning cities through the spread of interconnected self-organised, social-justice-based, and lifelong learning online and offline communal learning spaces using agile methods and embodied democratic practices. She currently voluntarily serves on the working groups that direct the Ecoversities Alliance, the latter comprises more than 150 higher education institutions around the globe that aim to reimagine higher education through reviving and reclaiming diverse knowledge ecologies using decolonial inquiry methods, with a focus on the global south. Nariman completed her Master’s in Education Science from Harvard University, where she also assists in teaching several courses on topics of adaptive leadership and community organising.
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