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Joy Anderson
Joy Anderson is a prominent national leader at the intersection of business and social change, whose insights and experience have helped shaped hundreds of ventures as well as the movements of impact investing and gender lens investing. She is founder and president of Criterion Institute, the leading think tank on using finance as a tool for social change, which demonstrates new possibilities through its groundbreaking research, innovative trainings, convenings and institutional engagement. In recognition of her leadership, Anderson was listed in Fast Company's 100 Most Creative People in Business.
Joy was co-founder of Good Capital with Tim Freundlich and Kevin Jones in 2006. She formerly served as faculty on leading social innovation award programs, including Unreasonable Institute and Echoing Green, advising the next generation of leaders in impact investing. As chair of the board of directors of Village Capital and through involvement in Investor's Circle, she was actively involved in shaping early stage social investments. And through her role in developing and leading Structure Lab© workshops she has helped over 300 organizations think through their legal and financial structures.
Joy has appeared on Bloomberg and CNN, and her thought leadership has been published in ImpactAlpha and Conscious Company, among other outlets. She is the author of "A Blueprint for Women's Funds on Using Finance as a Tool for Social Change," published in 2017 in partnership with Global Fund for Women and Ms. Foundation, following the 2015 publication of "Gender Lens Investing in Asia," jointly released with USAID, and Criterion's "The State of the Field of Gender Lens Investing."
Joy's intellectual interests draw on her research for her Ph.D. in American History from New York University. Her dissertation examined prison reform in the 1830s and how individuals and organizations in democracies claim expertise in order to shape public institutions.
She currently lives with her husband and daughter in a Connecticut apple orchard, and can be found in the fall pressing cider and boiling apple syrup.
Phyllis Anderson
Phyllis Anderson joined Criterion Institute in January 2014 to lead and support the 1K Churches movement, which seeks to engage 1000 churches of all denominations across the country in a process of reflecting on the relationship between their faith and the economy through Bible study and the experience of investing in a micro-business in their community.
She lives now in Sonoma, California, having recently retired as President of Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary in Berkeley. She served for nine years as the first female president of a Lutheran seminary in the United States. She is an ordained minister in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) who has served as pastor of a rural parish in Iowa, as assistant to the Lutheran Bishop in Iowa, as Director of Pastoral Studies and Assistant Professor of Theology at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, and as Director for Theological Education in the Churchwide Organization of the ELCA. She worked with many denominations as the Associate Dean and Director of the Institute of Ecumenical Theological Studies at the School of Theology and Ministry at Seattle University, an ecumenical theological school within a Jesuit Catholic university.
She holds a B.A. from Sacramento State University; an M.Div. from Wartburg Theological Seminary; and a Ph.D. from Aquinas Institute of Theology. Her areas of specialty are ecclesiology and ecumenics. She is married to the Rev. Dr. Herbert Anderson, Professor Emeritus of Pastoral Theology at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago and Research Professor of Practical Theology at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. They have two children: Joy Anderson of Haddam, Connecticut, and Joel Anderson of Leiden, the Netherlands.
Milena Bacalja Perianes
Milena Bacalja Perianes is a gender and inclusion expert (GEIS) and social impact innovator. Committed to advancing gender equality, her passion and expertise lie in mobilising the public and private sector to address social problems. Having started her career in the international development space with field experience in Cambodia, India, Mongolia, Malawi, South Africa, Sri Lanka and Tanzania her expertise includes: gender-lens investing, women-centred product design, women's economic empowerment, and female health. Previously she worked for UNAIDS Cambodia and Mongolia, the International AIDS Society, and Simavi managing and implementing a variety of community-based health programmes, and advocacy initiatives.
As Co-Founder of the Menstrual Health Hub, former Co-Founder of Amble, entrepreneur-in-resident at Zinc.VC, and Female Health Advisor for Sura Health, Milena has a particular interest in women-centred solutions and businesses. She has a BA in International Politics and History from Monash University (Aus), Masters in International Development from RMIT (Aus), and an MPhil in Multidisciplinary Gender Studies from the University of Cambridge (UK). She is actively involved in a variety of gender and female health related networks, think tanks and publications.
Lauren Galarza
Lauren Galarza is a passionate leader dedicated to making the world more just and equitable for everyone. She created a diverse career in the public sector with almost a decade of experience working in housing nonprofits, legal organizations, philanthropy, and justice institutes. Her work spans the social change spectrum from community organizing to direct service to policy reform. Before joining the Criterion Institute in July 2019, Lauren worked on justice reform in state correctional systems in New York, Louisiana, and Utah.
Lauren graduated from the National Urban Fellows class of 2016, an elite 14-month, full-time graduate degree program where she fulfilled a nine-month mentorship at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and completed a thesis on the barriers to and benefits of fathers in prison maintaining the relationship with their children. In her spare time, Lauren enjoys spending time with family and friends, listening to jazz music, and reading National Geographic magazine. Lauren earned a BA in Sociology and Spanish from the University of Michigan and an MPA from Baruch College of the City University of New York. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Laura Harris
Laura is passionate about working collaboratively to create systemic and sustainable social change. An intense curiosity for how to create a world defined by equity and fairness has shaped Laura's diverse career across arts, community, government, and social innovation spaces.
Throughout her career, Laura has worked with systems including education, justice, health, finance, child protection, and refugee services. She has been responsible for designing and implementing a variety of community-based programs, managing advocacy initiatives, event curation, strategic planning, organizational design, media and communications, and fundraising. Organizations Laura previously worked for include Atlantic Fellows for Social Equity, the Australia Council for the Arts, and Impact Investment Summit Asia Pacific.
Having started her career in the field of social change arts and cultural development, with experience working with remote communities in Australia, Laura has a particular interest in the decolonization project in settler societies and placing community at the center of decision making. She has a BA in Sociology and Theatre Studies from the University of Melbourne, completed the Stanford Graduate School of Business Executive Program in Social Entrepreneurship and is an alum of Social Leadership Australia's Adaptive Leadership program. Laura is based in Melbourne, Australia.
Lori Holmes
Committed to social justice, Lori Holmes has spent over a decade working for nonprofits, including nine years at Advancement Project California. Throughout her career, she has been responsible for new program development, strategic planning, team building, technology design, marketing, organizational development, knowledge management, and fundraising, among other areas. Focusing on Health Equity and Political Voice programming, she has collaborated with community, government, foundations, and partner organizations on research, data, and technology campaigns to increase access to open space, fresh foods, and to strengthen community participation in redistricting and public budgeting processes. She had a brief introduction to finance for social change while completing coursework for an MBA in Nonprofit Management and is looking forward to bringing that knowledge along with her professional experience to her role as Director of Programs with the Criterion team.
Shante Little
Shante Little comes to Criterion as a former educator. Her background in college access and closing the opportunity gap has paved the way for her commitment to social justice. Prior to joining Criterion, Shante served as a college counselor at a public charter high school in New Orleans where she assisted the graduating class of 2018 in securing 180 college acceptances to 73 distinct institutions and $2.6m in scholarship awards. The sheer enormity of institutionalized racism and systemic oppression, not only in education but across the world, continues to light a fire within her. She brings with her a passion for knowledge acquisition, dissemination and organizational change.
Shante holds a BA from Wheaton College (MA) in African and African-American Diaspora Studies, with minors in English and Education, and an M.Ed in Educational Leadership from Northern Arizona University. Following an illustrious intercollegiate athletic career, Shante pursued a career as a professional track & field athlete. She was an accomplished 400m hurdler who notched a 2015 Top-50 time in the world and still holds the Division III national record in the event.
Christina Madden
Christina Madden joined Criterion Institute in 2017 with more than a decade of experience in nonprofit development. She took an interest in finance as a tool for social change while working at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, where she developed lesson plans on "creative capitalism," assisted with a Workshops for Ethics in Business series, and contributed articles on related topics to the Carnegie Council's publications. Since then Christina has worked as a consultant to social entrepreneurs and impact investors, as well as government projects in Southeast Asia, West Africa and Latin America dealing with the impact of trade and investment on economic and social development. Her research on these topics has been published in a number of outlets including Foreign Affairs, The Asia Times, World Politics Review and a book she co-authored, entitled Perspectives on Peacekeeping and Atrocity Prevention. Christina received her B.A. in political science and international affairs from the George Washington University and is certified by UN-Habitat and Soliya in Cross-Cultural Dialogue Facilitation and by the United States Institute of Peace in Conflict Analysis and Conflict Negotiation. She is an active member of Women In International Security, Carnegie New Leaders and Women Investing for Sustainable Economies.
Stephen Marsh
Stephen Marsh is a theologian, speaker, writer, community organizer, social justice advocate, and pastor. He comes to the Criterion Institute with over thirty years of experience as an ordained minister in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), having pastored congregations in Queens and Brooklyn NY, Chicago IL, and Madison WI. He served as an Assistant to the Bishop for African American Ministries and Justice Concerns in the Southeast Michigan Synod of the ELCA from 2004-2009. In that role—which also included the responsibility of planting new churches—he led the development and became the first Executive Director of Acts in Common, a non-profit organization whose purpose is to assist in the resourcing and renewing of ELCA congregations throughout Detroit and Flint, MI. In 2009 he was elected bishop of the Southeast Michigan Synod, becoming the first African American bishop of that synod and only the fifth bishop of African descent in the entire history of the Lutheran church in North America.
Stephen received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Northwestern University in Evanston, IL with a major in Philosophy and a minor in Political Science. He received a Master of Divinity degree from Trinity Lutheran Seminary in Columbus, OH, after also completing studies at Makumira Theological College in Arusha, Tanzania. Stephen has also taken coursework toward a Doctor of Divinity degree in African Centered Religious Thought and Ministry from McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago, IL. That coursework included travel and study in Ghana and South Africa.
Throughout his ministry, Stephen has been active in the culture of faith-based community organizing, having been trained by both the Industrial Areas Foundation and the Gamaliel Foundation. Through this involvement he has sought to help raise the quality of community life through the constructive use of power. He has also been active in several ecumenical activities and organizations, including the Black Theology Project, an organization of African American theologians who sought information and dialogue on the origins, circulation and creative expansion of African religious traditions; the Hampton Ministers Conference, an African American preaching and teaching forum held annually at Hampton University in Hampton, VA; and the Samuel Proctor Conference, a justice-based information and organizing forum that seeks to engage the black church more organically with the black community. Organically engaging church with community is just one of the many places that Stephen believes using finance for social change can be a game-changing concept.
A former editor at Scott Foresman Publishing Company, Stephen has an appreciation for the use of language to create, uplift and expand awareness and understanding. He was the first African American theologian to have a regular column in The Lutheran, formerly the national publication of the ELCA. He was also the principle writer for a congregational resource entitled "Rooted in the Gospel: An African American Spiritual Formation Experience," published by the ELCA in 1993.
Stephen is an avid jazz and gospel enthusiast who loves to spend good time with good people. He enjoys belly laughter, fun with family and friends, fishing, a good Chicago sports event, a great movie, or quiet time with a good book.
Arianna Muirow
Arianna Muirow is a mission-driven professional with more than a decade of career experience in research, communications, advocacy, and program development. Arianna has a Masters in Regional Planning from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, focused on creating healthy and resilient regional food systems that bridge the rural-urban divide. In 2017 she completed a Doctorate of Philosophy in Geography at the University of Washington, where her dissertation discussed the intersections of social movements, sustainable and equitable food systems, and new technologies. Arianna was a 2018 Henry M. Jackson Leadership Fellow and a 2016 Leadership Fellow with the Washington Center for Women and Democracy. Arianna is a strategic facilitator and coalition-builder aiming to advance goals of justice and equity who believes in the power of story telling for social change.
Michelle Price
Michelle Price brings over 20 years of corporate finance and investment management experience to the Criterion Institute. At Morgan Stanley, she became an expert in portfolio risk analysis and management by developing award-winning analytics software for the Equity Trading desk. As her reputation grew on Wall Street, Michelle became a Principal Financial Accounting Consultant for Goldman Sachs, PIMCO, and Bank of New York Mellon. IBM's Global Technology Services also tapped Michelle to help CIO's develop business cases for IT digital transformation initiatives. Michelle notably was a Senior Vice President at Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., the business entity created post-bankruptcy to unwind Lehman Brothers. She established financial reporting and controls as the lead of FP&A – including automation, analytics, and monthly forecasting and reporting of $82B in asset sales to the Board.
As a Registered Investment Advisor with a career in Financial Services, Michelle sees the importance and value of gender lens investing and increasing the voices that guide our global financial system. She connected with the Criterion Institute in 2018 to support their mission.
Michelle earned a BS in Electrical Engineering from Rice University, and an MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. She has over 15 financial analysis, modeling and accounting certifications. She also has black belts in Karate and Taekwondo, and has trained with the Korean Olympic team. Michelle spent most of her career living in Manhattan, and is now based in her hometown Houston, TX.
Erin Puglia
Erin joined Criterion in 2019 after obtaining her Master's in Public Policy from the University of New Hampshire. Prior to this, she held administrative, outreach, and research positions. She is particularly excited to work on issues related to gender and religion while at Criterion. As an undergraduate at the University of Connecticut, she wrote her honors thesis on the role of religion in social activism and led an alternative break trip focused on human rights and human trafficking in Atlanta, Georgia. She became interested in the role of finance in social change during her time studying abroad in London, where she took a course focused on Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility while interning in the Major Partnerships division at Stonewall UK.
Kara Rhodebeck
Kara Rhodebeck is devoted to equity and social justice. Kara brings experience designing programs, training, monitoring and evaluation, as well as business management. Prior to joining Criterion, she worked at the National Network to End Domestic Violence where she helped build and managed a national micro-lending program for survivors of gender-based violence. She also created a new research and training collaboration with the Technology Safety and Economic Justice team to address the growth of FinTech in our lives and considerations for survivor safety. She has also worked in other anti-poverty organizations working to end intergenerational poverty through education and holistic community investment in Washington, D.C., building programs to increase educational access for girls in Uganda, and small business development promoting domestic and international social impact businesses.
Kara loves kayaking and a good coffee.
Felicity Spurrett
Felicity Spurrett is an independent consultant focusing on the use of communications to bring about social change. Starting her career in private sector Felicity was inspired to work on programs and activities that supported her values after moving to, and working in, Papua New Guinea in late 2005. Since then Felicity has supported communications activities for a range of development initiatives across Asia and the Pacific. Her passion for gender lens investing and alternatives for traditional development models such as impact investing, has grown since working on the Australian Government-funded Pacific RISE program. It was here that she was able to connect with Joy and the Criterion team. Feeling inspired and motivated by Criterion's work Felicity joined the team in early 2018 as a communications specialist.
Felicity has a Masters of Marketing from Monash University and has attained other professional development qualifications in public relations, digital communications and google analytics.
Tia Subramanian
Tia Subramanian has over a decade's experience in philanthropic strategy and outreach, communications, content development, research, writing, editing, and marketing, as well as professional and personal experience with a range of women's equity initiatives. She developed an interest in using finance as a tool for social change in her six years at Arabella Advisors, a philanthropic advisory firm, where she helped to found the firm's impact investing practice. At Arabella, she worked with investing and philanthropic strategy experts to design innovative investment vehicles that address systemic barriers to women's access to health care and capital. Tia excels at partnering with teams to parse expertise, guide research, and translate it into content that speaks to diverse audiences. Her work on social sector issues has appeared in publications such as the Stanford Social Innovation Review. She is also an experienced facilitator who has run trainings on communications and equity issues. Earlier in her career, Tia worked for a variety of media outlets on both the business and editorial sides. She spent two years in ad sales at The New Yorker and Condé Nast Portfolio magazines and worked as an editor at two London-based startup websites.
Tia is a longtime advocate for women's reproductive justice, currently serving on the development committee of the DC Abortion Fund. She has a BA in English and Psychology from Amherst College and an MA in English from the University of Virginia.
Joy Anderson
Joy is a prominent national leader at the intersection of business and social change. After leaving her career as a high school teacher in New York, Joy transitioned to an entrepreneur, founding Criterion Ventures in 2002, co-founding Good Capital in 2006. A serial entrepreneur and consummate networker, Joy's leadership and expertise have been at the forefront of the development of the social capital markets over the last 10 years. As a recognition of her business leadership, in 2011, Joy was ranked 51st in Fast Company's annual of the 100 Most Creative People in Business.
Michaele Birdsall
Michaele Birdsall has worked in both corporate and ministry settings, but ministry holds a special place in her heart: "I have a deep love for ministry and seeing others transformed by the love of God," she says. With that sort of passion, it's no wonder Birdsall sees her role as more than financial. "The CFO's role is holistic," she says. "The CFO has to look at the overall health of the organization. If the health of the organization is good, the finances will follow."
Michaele sees one of her primary roles in supporting ministry as building and sustaining donor confidence. "Donors who are confident that their gifts will be managed responsibly and ethically are much more inclined to give regularly and liberally," she says. Michaele's mission is to sustain a foundation of integrity for American Baptist Home Mission Societies (ABHMS) and to communicate the story of home mission in America and Puerto Rico, in order to inspire people to get involved in a number of ways, including financially. To deepen her capacity to support the broader health of ABHMS, Michaele completed a master's degree in organizational development from American University in 2013. She consistently provides internal and external consultation to senior leaders in the areas of strategic planning, organizational change, transition management, and diversity management.
Central to Michaele's consulting approach is the design and implementation of stakeholder interactions that deepen accountability and commitment through meaningful engagement and dialogue. Keeping a finger on the financial and organizational pulse of ABHMS is a full-time job. However, Michaele finds time to unwind by walking, bike-riding, listening to her favorite music, playing the piano and spending time with her three adult children and four grandchildren.
Luisamaria Ruiz Carlile
Luisamaria Ruiz Carlile retired earlier this year as a Senior Wealth Manager and Certified Financial Planner™ in Veris Wealth Partners, LLC New York office. While with Veris, she managed client portfolios and designs comprehensive strategies to meet a wide range of clients' financial goals. Luisamaria co-leads Veris Women, Wealth & Impact committee and has led the firm's research and thought pieces on gender lens investing.
Prior to joining Veris Wealth Partners, LLC, Luisamaria worked for JP Morgan for 13 years. As a Vice President in the Mergers & Acquisitions Department, and subsequently as a Credit Portfolio Manager, she executed transactions and oversaw loan and credit exposures in Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia, and Peru. She is a member of the Financial Planning Association and serves on the Advisory Board of Oxfam America's WISE Women's Empowerment Fund. In addition to her financial services experience, Luisamaria has held various leadership positions with the Park Slope United Methodist Church (PSUMC) in Brooklyn, NY. The PSUMC community is active in endeavors that support peace, the environment, and social justice. Luisamaria has a B.A. in Economics from Wellesley College (Durant Scholar, Summa Cum Laude), and a Certificate in Financial Planning from New York University.
Cheryl Dahle
Cheryl Dahle is a journalist, entrepreneur and thought leader who has spent more than ten years working at the intersection of business and social innovation. She is founder of Future of Fish, a non-profit innovation hub that supports the collective impact of entrepreneurs whose ideas help end overfishing. Previously, she was a director at Ashoka, where she distilled knowledge from 2,500 fellows to provide strategic insight to foundations. Prior to that, she was part of the incubation and start-up team to launch the VC-funded online environmental magazine, Blue Egg. She also founded and led Fast Company magazine's Social Capitalist awards, a competition to surface top social entrepreneurs.
She has written extensively on capital markets for non-profits, sustainability, and social entrepreneurs in the U.S. and abroad. As a consultant, she has served leading organizations in the space of hybrid business/social solutions, including Humanity United, Nike, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, and the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship at Duke University. Her first book, No Horizon is So Far, the story of the first two women in history to cross Antarctica on foot, was published in 2003 by Da Capo Press.
Catherine Gill
Catherine is Managing Director for the ALIGN Program at Northeastern University. ALIGN's mission is to make computer science degrees accessible to those traditionally underrepresented in computing, thereby opening up the talent pipeline for careers in technology.
Prior to assuming this role, Catherine was Executive Vice President at Root Capital, a social enterprise that provides loans and advisory services to rural businesses in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. In that position, she was responsible for fundraising, impact investing and communications to capitalize the organization's $100 million balance sheet and support its $15 million operating budget. Among other achievements during her eight years at Root Capital, Catherine played a leadership role in the Women in Agriculture Initiative, which has helped to grow more than one hundred gender-inclusive businesses across the globe.
Before that, Catherine spent ten years in the Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) industry, at the Nonprofit Finance Fund and the Structured Employment Economic Development Corporation, financing and consulting to leading social change organizations up and down the eastern seaboard. Catherine holds a bilingual M.B.A from the Instituto de Estudios Superiores de la Empresa (IESE) in Barcelona, Spain, and a B.A. in ancient Greek from Wellesley College. A native of Massachusetts, Catherine lives in Lexington with her husband, two children and a lop-eared rabbit.
Michele Kahane
Michele Kahane (MBA and MIA, Columbia University) is Associate Dean of Educational Innovation and Social Engagement and Professor of Professional Practice in Management at the Milano School of International Affairs, Management and Urban Policy. She has more than 25 years of experience in the global business, nonprofit, and philanthropy sectors. Her teaching and professional practice are focused on social entrepreneurship, social innovation and social investment. Michele was a banker in emerging markets corporate finance and later practiced social investment at the Ford Foundation for a decade. Subsequently, as a senior executive at the Clinton Global Initiative and at the Center for Corporate Citizenship at Boston College, she worked with companies, social entrepreneurs, and the public sector to forge innovative, market-based approaches to global development. She is co-author of the award-winning book Untapped: Creating Value in Underserved Markets (Berrett-Koehler, June 2006), which provides advice to managers on how companies can both implement profitable business strategies and improve conditions in poor communities. In addition to sitting on the Criterion Institute Board, Michele serves on the board of the Women's Network for a Sustainable Future, the steering committee of the Institute for Responsible Investment, the NY Regional Association of Grantmakers Task Force on Hurricane Katrina, and the Fast Forward Fund.
Nina Weissberg
Nina Weissberg is CEO of Weissberg Corp., a 60-year-old commercial real estate firm, and also a founding board member of the Weissberg Foundation. Ms. Weissberg joined the company in 1994, became CEO in 2006. At the Foundation, her concerns focus on the empowerment of women through regulation and Impact Investment to promote social rights, economic access and physical security. She is presently a Trustee of Beloit College (2010 – present), a member of the Beloit Weissberg Chair Council on Human Rights, a Trustee of New York University (2012-present).
Recently collaboration also includes the Root Capital Gender initiative.
Teresa Younger
Teresa C. Younger has served as President and CEO of the Ms. Foundation for Women, the oldest women's foundation in the United States, since 2014. Under Teresa's leadership, the Foundation launched #MyFeminismIs, a multimedia campaign sparking a national conversation on feminism; funded a groundbreaking report on the sexual abuse to prison pipeline; joined leading women's foundations at the White House to announce a $100 million funding commitment to create pathways to economic opportunity for low-income women and girls; and led a campaign to hold the NFL accountable for violence against women.
A noted speaker, advocate, and activist, Teresa has been on the frontlines of some of the most important battles for women's health, safety and economic justice. She was honored by Planned Parenthood Federation of America as a Dream Keeper, given Liberty Bank's Willard M. McRae Community Diversity Award, and named one of the "50 Most Powerful Women in Philanthropy" by Inside Philanthropy. A graduate of the University of North Dakota, Teresa currently serves on the board of several philanthropic and advocacy organizations and initiatives, including: Grantmakers for Girls of Color (G4GC), Black Funders for Social Justice, the ERA Coalition, ACLU Awards Committee (2017), Essie Justice Project (Board Member), Funders for Reproductive Equity (FRE) (Board member) and Philanthropy New York (Board Member).
In addition, Teresa serves on the following boards and committees: the Ethel Walker School (Trustee), The Women's Building (Advisory Committee), Women's Campaign School at Yale (Board Member), the NYS Council on Women & Girls (Steering Committee), and Girl Scouts USA (Board Member).
Younger previously served as the executive director of the Connecticut General Assembly's Permanent Commission on the Status of Women and as executive director of the ACLU of Connecticut – making her the first African American and the first woman to hold that position.
Patty Alleman
Patty Alleman is the UNICEF Senior Gender and Development Advisor in the New York headquarters. In this position since February 2016, her work includes partnerships and external communication, and innovative solutions for gender equality results in development and humanitarian settings. Before UNICEF, she worked for seven years with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), including in the Asia Regional Office in Bangkok, where she served as Senior Gender Advisor for Asia. In this capacity, she provided support to over a dozen USAID country offices to reduce gender disparities in all development outcomes via innovative strategies, creative partnerships and rigorous programming. She also designed and led research to advance gender lens investing in Asia, which includes multi-partner investments to achieve financial results as well as gender-equitable social change. Prior to Bangkok she served as Senior Health Policy and Gender Advisor in the Global Health Bureau in Washington DC. In this role, she advised numerous country offices globally, including in Central America, South Asia and across Africa. Before USAID she worked for Family Health International as a Health Researcher, supporting social science studies in the areas of HIV and reproductive health, primarily in southern Africa, India and Vietnam. She has master's degrees in anthropology and public health, with a strong background in governance and policy, strategic partnerships, and research. She started her international development career over 20 years ago as a Peace Corps volunteer in Poland.
Chris Andersen
Chris Andersen has served as InFaith Community Foundation's Executive Director since its inception in 1995. Since 1995, outright and deferred gifts to InFaith have grown to more than $1 billion, with nearly $18 million annually being distributed to charities and causes worldwide. Prior to InFaith, Chris managed community and nonprofit lending programs, and supervised corporate and private foundations, at First Banks and Marquette Banks. He has helped create six nonprofit organizations and served on the board of 10 more, including Lutheran Services in America and Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services.
Previously, Chris worked as an architect and in real estate development. He did his undergraduate work at Gustavus Adolphus College and the University of Minnesota and received his MBA from the University of Washington.
Rini Banerjee
Rini Banerjee has been working in the philanthropic sector for the last 17 years. Currently, Rini is a strategic advisor at Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health. From 2012-2016, Rini served as the first Executive Director of the Foundation for a Just Society (FJS). Rini led the start-up phase of this recently formed private global foundation funding women, girls and LGBT rights work in the U.S., Francophone West Africa, South + Southeast Asia, and Central America.
Before joining FJS, she was a Senior Program Officer at the Overbrook Foundation, where she implemented and oversaw domestic and international grants portfolios in human rights, youth organizing, reproductive rights and justice, human trafficking, and progressive movement building. Previously, she was the Program Director at the New York Women's Foundation, and held positions at UNICEF, UNDP, and at several community-based organizations working in the women's rights and social justice fields. Earlier in her career, she worked as a financial analyst for the Investment Division of Citibank/Citicorp in NYC and marketing department at the Samuel Goldwyn Company. She is currently a Trustee of the Mertz Gilmore Foundation and Board member of the Funders for Reproductive Equity. Rini has been involved with co-creating and serving on many steering committees including establishing the newly formed Philanthropy Advancing Women's Human Rights, Groundswell Fund, and the Funders Collaborative on Youth Organizing. She was the Board Chair of the Asian American/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy (AAPIP) and past board member of South Asian Youth Action (SAYA!). She also co-founded the Asian Women's Giving Circle in NYC. Rini has a master's in International Affairs from Columbia University with a concentration in human rights and economic development and a BS in Finance from New York University's Stern School of Business.
Cheryl Dahle
Cheryl Dahle is an entrepreneur and journalist who works at the intersection of design and systems change. She is co-founder and CEO of Flip Labs, a social innovation design firm. The company's first foray into systems work was tackling the global problem of overfishing through its Future of Fish initiative, which Cheryl led for seven years. The project became a non-profit innovation hub that supports the collective impact of entrepreneurs whose ideas help end overfishing. Future of Fish was one of two national finalists in the 2012 Buckminster Fuller Challenge, which recognizes insightful system approaches to complex problems.
Cheryl previously was a director at Ashoka, where she distilled knowledge from the organization's network of 2,500 fellows to provide strategic insights to foundations and corporations.
She is a Distinguished Adjunct of Professional Practice at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Design. Dahle has also lectured at Stanford University and the Said Business School at Oxford University.
Indrani Goradia
Indrani is the founder of Indrani's Light Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to empowering women around the world with the tools to live healthy and meaningful lives. As a survivor of domestic violence as a child and young adult, she is a tireless and fearless advocate for ending gender-based violence worldwide. She leads trainings globally with PSI to give local leaders the tools to work with survivors of violence. An author, speaker and certified life coach, Indrani has delivered keynote addresses at both national and international women's conferences and leads workshops around the world. In 2015, she addressed the United Nations and gave a TEDx talk in Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago, to engage the global community in ending gender-based violence. Indrani completed her formal education in New York City, attending Queens College and Kent State University. She is a triathlete, marathoner, and proud mother and wife.
Lori Heise
Lori Heise has over 25 years of experience working in the areas of gender equality, social change and women's health, first as an activist practitioner, and later as a researcher. Early in her career she founded and led two women's health organizations—one dedicated to sexual and reproductive health and rights and a second focused on women's HIV prevention needs. Working to prevent violence against women and girls has been the central focus of her life's work. She is an internationally recognized expert on the causes and consequences of violence against women and currently serves as co-founder and Technical Director of the Prevention Collaborative, a new global initiative designed to strengthen the ability of key actors to implement cutting edge violence prevention programs informed by research-based evidence, practice-based learning and feminist principles. Recently she joined the Faculty of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where she conducts research on violence, social norms and intersectional health disparities and serves as Co-investigator on "What Works to Prevent Violence," a 6 year, multi-million-dollar project to reduce gender-based violence (GBV) in low and middle-income countries. Prior to joining Johns Hopkins, she was a Professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine where she was Co-Director of STRIVE, an international research consortium dedicated to studying the structural drivers of HIV, including gender inequalities, stigma and criminalization, lack of livelihood options and alcohol use and harmful drinking norms.
Sara Kriksciun
Sara Kriksciun is a lifelong advocate for ending gender-based violence. She currently serves as Senior Advisor/Chief Partnerships Officer and member of the executive team for Futures Without Violence, an organization dedicated to preventing gender-based violence in all its forms. Her work in international women's rights has led her to partnerships in over 40 countries, with recent leadership positions at CARE International, EngenderHealth and the United Nations Trust Fund to End Violence against Women, where she designed a 5-year, $400 million strategic plan, endorsed by the UN Secretary General and UNiTE to End Violence against Women Campaign. Sara has served as a strategist and consultant for community-based organizations in Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Niger, Liberia, Democratic Republic of Congo and Mexico, helping them to gain long-term sustainability and to bolster their advocacy efforts and strategic planning. She is a Fulbright Scholar and Ford-Knight Fellow and received a Master's in International Human Rights from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University.
Kyle Wright
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Teresa C. Younger has served as President and CEO of the Ms. Foundation for Women, the oldest women's foundation in the United States, since 2014. Under Teresa's leadership, the Foundation launched #MyFeminismIs, a multimedia campaign sparking a national conversation on feminism; funded a groundbreaking report on the sexual abuse to prison pipeline; joined leading women's foundations at the White House to announce a $100 million funding commitment to create pathways to economic opportunity for low-income women and girls; and led a campaign to hold the NFL accountable for violence against women.
A noted speaker, advocate, and activist, Teresa has been on the frontlines of some of the most important battles for women's health, safety and economic justice. She was honored by Planned Parenthood Federation of America as a Dream Keeper, given Liberty Bank's Willard M. McRae Community Diversity Award, and named one of the "50 Most Powerful Women in Philanthropy" by Inside Philanthropy. A graduate of the University of North Dakota, Teresa currently serves on the board of several philanthropic and advocacy organizations and initiatives, including: Grantmakers for Girls of Color (G4GC), Black Funders for Social Justice, the ERA Coalition, ACLU Awards Committee (2017), Essie Justice Project (Board Member), Funders for Reproductive Equity (FRE) (Board member) and Philanthropy New York (Board Member).
In addition, Teresa serves on the following boards and committees: the Ethel Walker School (Trustee), The Women's Building (Advisory Committee), Women's Campaign School at Yale (Board Member), the NYS Council on Women & Girls (Steering Committee), and Girl Scouts USA (Board Member).
Younger previously served as the executive director of the Connecticut General Assembly's Permanent Commission on the Status of Women and as executive director of the ACLU of Connecticut – making her the first African American and the first woman to hold that position.
Suzanne Biegel, Advisor
Suzanne Biegel is founder of Catalyst At Large Ltd, with more than 25 years of experience as an entrepreneur, social impact angel and venture investor, philanthropist, board member, and hands-on operational manager. She founded the Clearly Social Angels network in the UK for ClearlySo and serves as a senior adviser there. Her consultancy is focused on impact investing with a women and girls lens. She is the Investment Director for SPRING, a venture accelerator focused on companies that improve the lives of adolescent girls in East Africa. She is a Senior Adviser at the Criterion Institute, on our gender work. She serves on the global advisory council for the Wharton Social Impact Initiative, and is a Wharton and Penn alumnae. Suzanne serves on the board of Confluence Philanthropy in the US, a network of foundations moving their capital into mission related investing, and founded and runs Women in Social Finance, in London. She is a fellow at the Aspen Institute. She speaks and writes frequently on the topic of impact investing. Suzanne has been based primarily in London for the past five years.
Sarah Kaplan, Advisor
Sarah Kaplan is Director of the Institute for Gender + the Economy at the Rotman School and University of Toronto Distinguished Professor of Gender and the Economy.
She is co-author of the New York Times business bestseller, Creative Destruction, challenging the notion of sustainable competitive advantage and the myth of excellence. She has recently co-edited Survive and Thrive: Winning Against Strategic Threats to Your Business.
Her research explores how framing processes of managers and entrepreneurial actors affect the evolution of technologies and fields, organizational response to change, and strategy making inside organizations. Her studies examine the biotechnology, fiber optics, personal digital assistant, financial services and nanotechnology fields. Her interest in gender lens investing is in understanding how whole new ecosystems can be built.
Formerly a professor at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and a consultant and innovation specialist for nearly a decade at McKinsey & Company in New York, she completed her doctoral research in Management of Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship at MIT's Sloan School of Management. She is currently a Senior Editor at Organization Science, and formerly Guest Editor of a special issue on new research methods at the Strategic Management Journal, and an Associate Editor at the Academy of Management Annals.


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As part of a project to consolidate production at its Aalborg site, Pernod Ricard Nordic installed a new blending facility to replace one located elsewhere in Denmark. As the main automation contractor (MAC), Emerson was responsible for the front-end engineering and design (FEED), and the implementation of the new automation system. PlantWeb digital plant architecture, incorporating the DeltaV digital automation system with HART communications and intelligent devices, was installed.
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The new plant produces a number of blends of bitters in batches with different recipes, ingredients and blending requirements. Pernod Ricard Nordic therefore needed the flexibility of a batch control system meeting the ISA-88 standard. The new system had to be scalable to enable easy future expansion. Additionally, operation from a single database was preferred, in order to make it easier to manage the plant and process control models, improve the accuracy of the initial installation, and simplify maintenance and upgrades.
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Lady B is so good at what she does that she got recognition from unlikely quarters. She loves to crush toys for fun, but today she was contacted and contracted by a toy manufacturing company to crush their toys as part of testing for strength and durability. The mistress loved her new job because she was being paid to do what she absolutely loved to do. Her dream had come true.
Mistress Sophia is a fan of toys. She did not play with them when she was little so she compensates for that now. She loves to buy many of them and play with them. But of late she does not like to buy them to play with them. Instead, she crushes them. She loves to crush and destroy them because it makes her feel good but above all, it makes her feel powerful.
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Goddess Yasemin was angered at work but she knew she could not take out her anger on anyone at work. So she bottled her anger until she got home. She then took out her anger on a can because it was the closest thing she could lay her hands on and destroy without causing any problems. The mistress did not want to create more problems while trying to sort out her anger issues.
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Lady B and mistress Christin crushed food for fun. They did not like what this loser had prepared and they chose to crush it and use it to humiliate him. They used their shoes to create a mess and when they were satisfied with the mess they had created, they made the loser lick it from both the floor as well as from their soles. He did it out of fear.
Lady B took out some plastic cups from her kitchen and she crushed them out of anger. She was angry that her slave had poorly done the work she had given him. She crushed them because he was not around for her to crush him. He was lucky as he was not around and she took out her anger on the toys. When he came back, she had calmed down.
This mistress had a lot of time on her hands but she did not know what to do with it. She ended up trying sexy crush fetish. She went to the kitchen and she took out a banana. She crushed it with her bare feet and she created a mess on the floor. She did it slowly as if she was crushing a guy's balls. She enjoyed herself but she did not enjoy the cleaning up after herself.
This mistress went to the house of this guy who owed her money and she found a lot of small toy houses in his place. She asked him for her money but he tried to give her a lot of excuses like he usually does. She was fed up so she crushed all the tiny houses with her wedges and destroyed them all. She gave him exactly one week to get her money. He did.


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First Clinic: George Compound
After two and a half days of travel, the 2019 OMNI Medical Mission Team sends you grateful greetings and love from our comfortable base in Ndola, Zambia! I began this writing to you at 6:30 a.m. on Monday, before the team gathered in half an hour for our first breakfast together. We are 18 doctors, nurses, students from Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia, a lawyer, a spiritual advisor, an estates advisor, teachers, artists, and in no time we are already an amazingly coherent and cheerful team.
Yesterday's 2-hour flight from a chilly Johannesburg morning landed us on the small Ndola tarmac where, even under the Zambian winter sun, we immediately remembered needing our field hats and sunscreen. We headed to nearby Kuku Royal Lodge with all our luggage (nothing astray) and were met by James, the owner, whose first words were "welcome home!" James really cares for the team, and his staff are excellent cooks, launderers, and cleaners for us, wonderful, helpful people who know what kind of work we are doing and pray for us every night.
For our first-time travelers here, everything is new: the bird songs, the frangipani and bougainvillea in bloom, the chipper advertising on giant billboards, the reddish toads, the strange and beautiful trees. The degree of need we will be seeing in our patients is also going to be new to our first-time team members.
One of the unforgettable experiences of every OMNI trip is the first bus ride from our lodge to nearby OMNI Village. By 8:15 a.m., our packed van turned right off of the Copperbelt Region's one paved road onto a hard mango-bright dirt road (imagine orange mud soup in the rainy season, not now). We steered slowly around the ruts, passed the termite mounds from which sturdy bricks are cut, and by the ubiquitous mango trees (not now in season). Slowly, drifts of sweet song reached our open windows, and finally, we were there—at the entry to our OMNI campus—where all the children were lined up outside, singing their hearts out to welcome us.
Hearing all the children sing with such passion and sincerity recalls an old Proverb from India: God breaks your heart—again, and again, and again—until, at last, it remains open. The sweet chorus of these 332 young students' song, a song almost certainly impossible without the education, food, and medicine of OMNI, always amazes, and every year moves me to tears.
As we meet, every OMNI staff member curtsies to each curtsying child. They have been waiting for us outside. In this line we enact a deliberate intimacy, meeting and clasping hands with each individual, eye to eye, smile to smile, and asking each one, "Moolishani?" How are you?, and hearing each answer, "Bweeno" I am well! Although currently three students are down with the fever and chills of malaria, they are taking coartem, medicine which will save their lives. In 3 or 4 days, these children will be back in class.
After a formal greeting ceremony, and OMNI's leader Karen Throckmorton speaking so lovingly to all the assembled students and staff, we gathered outside once again, this time very quietly, while we established a Skype visit with our friends in the congregation of the Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, back in the United States. And our connection worked! The OMNI children sang beautifully again, this time a live performance transmitted across the ocean. Where there is a will, or a service organization like ours, there is a way.
Our first field clinic, Monday, was today in George Compound. This day we served the area from which most of our orphans walk to attend our OMNI School (where they are served their only meal of the day, warm and nutritious, cooked on campus), including their neighbors, anyone in the area who needs help. School is not in session during our medical clinic week so that our OMNI teachers can serve as wonderful translators for our patients and us. Without their help, we could not function.
First-time with us, Doctor Margaret, immunologist and allergist, came to sit with me to have her "lunch"—a power bar—which we eat as privately as we can. (Veteran Pharmacy stalwart Chriss Ross reminded us today as she distributed our power bars that our patients may not eat lunch today, or any meal at all. Thus, if we eat, we eat discreetly.)
Margaret looked as strong and beautiful as the Statue of Liberty, sitting across from me on the bench crowded with Wound Care's bags. "My first patient of the day...she is partly paralyzed because her roof collapsed on her more than a year ago. She has a spinal injury; she is incontinent; one hand has contracted; she is poor; when her small son is not there to lift or drag her into a seated position, she must lie where she is. I checked her lungs. They don't make a sound in the stethoscope. She is barely taking in air. She..." and the conclusion is not good. But Margaret's gentle, bright intelligence, firm compassion, and hopeful advice bathed this patient.
And the patient did smile, I told Margaret, when, over in Wound Care, we gave her rice, salt, a huge new blanket, soap, washcloths, a toothbrush and toothpaste. And she REALLY smiled when Nurse Gil looked at her predicament with the determined compassion for which she is famous, and with scissors and ingenuity turned a donated surgical sheet into an approximated waterproof undergarment to be worn over the new panties Gil also gave her, along with a torso brace which will incline her to keep better posture, improving her breathing at least a little.
Emily and Riley, first-time team members, made Roanoke College very proud today. They worked the Lab Station, along with OMNI's amazing Civics teacher, Eunice Kasongo. These young people did their first ever blood draws and tests for HIV and malaria. They had to prick the fingers of old men and terrified babies. They had to direct and test urine samples. They had to prepare themselves to read devastating results. Thank God, today there was no bad news from the exhausted team at Wound Care. Brady, the third Roanoke College student, stuck with Gil and OMNI's Deputy Head teacher Kelvin Kaputula and me, organizing the dozen Wound Care cases and crucially helping us deliver aid.
First-timer Lisa, another North Carolinian, a financial advisor back home, shepherded dozens and dozens of patients from triage to the doctors or Clinics Pharmacy or Lab or to Wound Care all day. "I tried to learn a few words in Bemba, just to make it nicer for them. They are so quiet in their pain...Only after the entire day did I remember my Power Bar. I wasn't hungry. Instead I realized I wasn't feeling exactly right. Probably I'm thirsty and hungry, and maybe tired, but it doesn't feel like hungry and thirsty. It just feels off, not right. That's probably how so many of our patients here feel many days."
Dr. Doug Ross has been extracting teeth all day, into the darkness, with the help of nurse-in-training Gillian Muma Chambesi. I took one photo I love in the dentistry room, of a little girl's bare socks, as she tightened her feet against one another in anticipation of her tooth being pulled.
First-timer Linda Hinson, a Middle School art teacher back in Virginia, worked all day under a tent awning we set up outside—our Pharmacy—with veterans Chriss, Sunni, and some rotating helpers including newcomers April from Charlottesville and Addy from Atlanta, dispensing Tylenol, Ibuprofen, allergy meds, cough drops, vitamins, anti-fungals, scabies meds, and the eye drops collected by the Blacksburg Middle School community. Pharmacy is one of the most difficult stations, and one of the busiest. These workers patiently called the names (Zambian names, often unfamiliar to our ears) of 100% of our patients all day, well over 400. They explained dosages, and handed the well-marked personalized meds packages to each person only when it was clear that these directions had been conveyed thoroughly and with compassion and kindness. Linda speaks for all of Pharmacy when she commented, "I was non-stop today. I learned so much. You have to be organized, and you have to be consistent in where you place things."!l Then Linda adds: "And Brady and I, in one day, we have become the world's BEST pill cutters."
Karen and Dresden worked Triage, the place that evaluates each patient and their acuity and sends them to doctors or wound care or pharmacy or all of the above. They saw too many swollen lips, swollen throats, discharge, and areas of patchy skin. They also saw many of the OMNI kids with only a cough, a sneeze, or a headache, well children from under the loving umbrella of our school.
Closing the clinic at 8 p.m., Dr. Doug, after extracting 45 teeth, sometimes 3 or 4 from someone too fond of sweets and sugarcane, announced that the greatest invention of the day was putting a tea bag in his water bottle.
"Hey Doug," I asked, "do you think you got some caffeine from that water? "Darn right! Are you kidding? I would have been fried at 2 this afternoon! I'm still buzzing!"
Dr. Glenn and the other docs are all still working in this darkness. Patients, Dr. Margaret told me later, were arriving in twos and threes long after dark. Glenn's daughter Addy has, like all our young people, rotated flexibly through being a doctor's assistant, to serving in intake, pharmacy, lab, and wound care. As I finish writing, our fingertips and noses are growing chilled. Many hands are collapsing the tents and loading our duffels and plastic trunks full of tomorrow's medicine. Our guards and security are watching over us now in the total darkness. And our pastor H2 (Henry Maicki II) is everywhere, comforting, undoing doubt, giving spiritual sustenance. He makes us all feel sure again. He makes us laugh hard, and he causes us to love one another better.
At dinner, late tonight, we will hear a hundred difficult and beautiful stories. We will see each other clearly as the human beings we are, gathered to do our best work under the Southern Cross shining above the Zambian night.
This account is not complete. These are only my quick notes from stolen moments in the trenches. Yet I sincerely hope for those of you following us that with these words you can better see a glimpse of what a 12-hour clinic with OMNI means.
I will end with the story of Patricia. When she was 5, she didn't grasp her bowl of porridge well, or perhaps the bowl was too hot to handle, or maybe she was being chased by a sibling. She remembers the night, but thank God not the pain. The porridge clung to her young skin, leaving severe disfiguring burns on her face and neck and chest. Her skin now has extremely contracted scars which badly limit her facial movement and impact her emotional certainty.
But after I washed Patricia and massaged her with Vaseline, and put two lovely hand-made bracelets on her wrist made by Lilyann and Kennedy in Charlottesville, Virginia, Patricia was willing the confirm: "I am studying in the 4th grade. I am strong in maths. I like to eat all fruits. And yes, you heard me correctly, my favorite color," she said, smiling at her new bracelets, "is blue."
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Addressing the issue of Turkey's intervention in northern Syria, Jobbik's executive vice president Márton Gyöngyösi talked about the EU's lack of unity at the EP meeting in Strasbourg.
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aha! That helped me figure it out. Sure enough in World that's true, Game is a property of global. But it looks like in Simulation it isn't for some reason. Easy enough to work around for now knowing that it won't be a problem once I deploy to World. Thanks!
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Jay Merrick reports from this year's architecture biennale, where the theme Reporting From the Front has prompted a focus on housing and inequality
Jay Merrick
The most telling fact about the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale, sponsored by Rolex, is that of the 88 exhibitors in the Arsenale, only a dozen or so are well-known architectural practices. Design virtuosity is – with one or two peculiar exceptions – irrelevant to the director, Chilean architect and 2016 Pritzker Prize laureate Alejandro Aravena. He is using the event, titled Reporting From the Front, to highlight architectural responses to basic human issues such as inequality, sanitation, disasters, housing shortages and migration.
The Biennale's president, Paulo Baratta, adds: 'We are not interested in architecture as the manifestation of a formal style, but rather as an instrument of self-government, and as a demonstration of of the ability of humans to become masters of their own destinies.'
Destinies usually begin at home, and a significant number of exhibitors and national pavilions are dealing with this subject area. The German pavilion, for example, is focusing on immigrants with its Making Heimat exhibition, which has punched four big portals in its pavilion's facades to make a bold metaphorical point about opening borders to incomers.
The Barcelona-based Indian architect Anupama Kundoo is exhibiting a full-scale house composed of handmade modules formed with panels of very precisely mixed cement with chicken mesh embedded in it. The durable mixtures are the product of her 15 years of research on ferrocement, via the inspirations of Frei Otto and Pier Luigi Nervi.
The cement and mesh modules are ultra-low tech and can be made by villagers, and either sold on or used to build their own homes. The ferrocement system can also be used to produce surprisingly elegant lightweight shell structures.
'We're not just talking about affordability,' she says. 'My work is to find alternative solutions to using significantly less materials, and action them.' She also sees her housing system as a trigger for inclusive community education. Kundoo has used the same system to design a squatting lavatory – a response to the fact that about half of India's 1.2 billion people defecate in the open.
A similar back-to-basics, and locally specific approach has been used by the Paraguayan practice, Gabinete de Arquitectura, led by Solano Benitez and Gloria Cabral. Bricks are very cheap in Paraguay, and the practice is developing a brick and metal rod structural system that Benitez claims can be used in tall buildings. The system has already been used successfully in small, architecturally expressive projects in Paraguay's capital ,Asunción, which were visited by Peter Zumthor in 2015 while he was acting as a Rolex-sponsored mentor for Cabral.
There are equally ad-hoc projects exhibited by architects such as the South African, Andrew Makin, whose timber canopy for medicine traders in Durban is as usefully basic as it gets – a stark contrast to the few 'Architecture with a big A' projects in the Arsenale. Beautifully finessed as they are, one wonders what schemes such as Marte.Marte's svelte Schanerloch Bridge in Dornbirn, and Barozzi Veiga's Graubünden Museum of Fine Arts in Chur, have to do with Alejandro Aravena's notions of architecture at the frontline.
The British Pavilion's curators see the frontline for UK architecture as the housing crisis and the crisis of how we live
The Arsenale has become a vast narrative of raw materials, and a strong sense of hands-on fabrication and architectural and typological experimentation. Zhang Ke's rough brick micro-hutong and tiny concrete library are strangely compelling; there are rough but materially intriguing structures from Rural Urban Framework of Mongolia; and a garbage walk-through by Hugon Kowalski, a Polish architect working in Mumbai.
The Republic of Macedonia produced a curving, mirrored tunnel filled with large ochre foam models of architectural icons. The title of the installation is No Man's Land. Countering this totem-world are some wonderfully engrossing large-scale models, such as Bel Architects' 20m², pale blue urban collage.
For NÍall McLaughlin, a recent frontline concerned his practice's design of the Orchard centre for dementia sufferers in Dublin. The installation, designed with architect and Bartlett colleague Yeoryia Manolopoulou, is a field of 16 fibrillating video images showing the the hands of 16 of his architects drawing on A1 sheets in the centre.
In the British Pavilion, curators Jack Self, Shumi Bose, and Finn Williams are certainly on message. Selected and sponsored by the British Council, they have reacted decisively to what they see as the frontline for architecture in Britain: 'the housing crisis, and the crisis of how we live'.
Their Home Economics exhibition sets out five polemical, pragmatically stripped down types of living space designed to suit specific periods of habitation: hours, days, months, years, decades.
Their exhibition is a series of high-res strikes against the prevailing socio-political and aspirational norms relating to housing. Home Economics recalls precedents such as Constant Nieuwenhuys' 1959 New Babylon vision of permanently nomadic urban living, and the early co-operative living experiment in 1910 at Homesgarth in Letchworth.
But there is nothing train-spottingly academic, metaphorical, or artistic going on inside Enrico Trevisana's 1887 building. Instead, we find an oscillation of objections and solutions. The objections can be summarised by tweaking the iconic title of Richard Hamilton's 1956 collage: Just what is it that makes today's homes so existentially irrelevant, so economically mendacious?
'Housing choices are intrinsic to capitalist conditions,' says Self, who also suggests that 'the failure of Occupy was a turning-point. Activism is less a method of change. Who is responsible for the housing crisis? Power is increasingly diffuse and obscure, too sophisticated for public processes.'
Meanwhile, there are 100,000 bedrooms in Britain you can't fit a bed in; more than 53,000 properties are being rented on a daily rate; there were more than 170 tenant evictions per day in 2015, the highest figure since records began; the average age of a first-time mortgage applicant is now 39; private renters in Britain spend almost 40 per cent of their income on rent, compared to the European average of 28 per cent; and 20 per cent of housebuilders' profits are made on internal fixtures and fittings.
Bose speaks of the disconnect between architectural production and new housing formats, and emphasises that the five housing models in the exhibition were developed in collaboration with advisers including housing associations, developers, economists and estate agents, 'so the proposals could be rooted in reality'.
Williams adds: 'We need to understand how real estate impacts on architectural production. Radical changes are connected to quotidian things.' And to occult things. Self was surprised to learn that the Royal Bank of Scotland ran an internal think-tank to develop housing related financial products for the 2020s and 30s.
The five stay-time determined living spaces were designed by different curatorial teams. Self, Bose and Williams produced the Hours space ('own nothing, share everything'); art collective Åyr delivered Days ('home is where the WiFi is'); Months ('a house without housework') was the work of Dogma and Black Square; Years ('space for living, not speculation') was produced by Julia King; and Decades ('a room without functions') by Hesselbrand.
The design responses share a ruthless clarity, and only one – the inhabitable, charmingly vivid balloon for Days – seems retro: The Prisoner meets David Greene's 1966 Living Pod, complete with inadvertently satirical supporting text: 'To feel at home here, you only need a Wi-Fi connection, which you use to flit between your social media feeds, entertainment, virtual and commercial consumption … Your personalised spheres offer a new type of space that responds to the transience of your global mobility and is just as unique as you.' Pass the Huxleyan soma, virtual dude! And top up the balloon with amniotic fluid while you're at it.
There are one or two teasing ambiguities. For example, Self notes that 'there's nothing natural about the home', and Julia King's Decades living space is supported by this statement: ''Rationalism is the design of space through abstract or universal ratios. In 18th-century Georgian Britain, terraced houses used Classical proportions and harmonic dimensions to create adaptable, useful and timeless spaces.' However Golden Ratio they are, are those qualities experienced as unnatural, or humane?
But, in general, Home Economics manages to articulate potential living conditions with remarkable clarity and directness; there are no blurry or bumptious analyses. And for the first time, the pavilion's containing volumes have been rendered almost invisible.
The descriptive texts set out the concepts briefly and directly. Here's part of the explanatory text for the Hours room-set, which would probably be found in tower-blocks: 'You share a number of common objects with your neighbours – from practical things that are infrequently used (like power tools) to objects you can better afford together (like clothes). You keep these objects in a large transparent 'garderobe', or communal wardrobe. Even though you live in the centre of the city, your rent is not expensive. You use your savings to invest in shares of the company that owns and manages your building.'
Self likens the garderobe to Jeff Koons' framed domestic objects – 'a link to revealing ourselves digitally. What objects are we prepared to share with neighbours? How far can you go? Would we be prepared to share socks and shirts?'
The Months room-set, based on the boarding house model (and supported with two superbly produced research books) proposes a bathroom and kitchen surmounted with a bedroom, supported by co-living and co-working spaces; boarding house as the domestic equivalent of office co-working milieux, with individual cells as 'pure temples for living' – which is an unfeasible and strange description.
The Years interior sets out a brilliantly simple possibility that would surely be resisted by most of the housing development lobby for the foreseeable future: one buys nothing more than a basically functional domestic shell – roof, walls, floor, running water, electricity, lavatory, washbasin. By installing everything else themselves, homeowners add, and retain, property value on their own terms.
The Hours and Decades spaces are probably the most challenging and interesting proposals – the former for the stark functional originality of its approach to always sudden communalities; and the latter for its idea of space as something that cannot be demarcated – a kind of temporal tabula rasa whose boundaries are always ambiguous, always leaking away, always evolving into perhaps nothing more, or less, than an atmosphere of place and existence.
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