Annual Community Meet 2025

The Annual Community Meet 2024 brought together community organizers from around the world. Attendees were inspired by speakers who shared their experiences and insights. The event fostered connection and collaboration among participants, leaving them motivated to continue their work in their own communities. Watch the recordings of these two events here.

For our Annual Community Meet 2025, we welcomed Marshall Ganz and a lineup of community voices as speakers:

April 11th session community speakers (moderator: LCN board member Samar Dudin)

  • Sergio Lopez, Sr. Trainer for Leadership Development at Catholic Relief Services, United States
  • Marina Pavlic, Co-founder & leader of Kreni Promeni, Serbia
  • Nadeen Aburamadan, Founder, KU Students for Palestine, Turkey
  • Biira Jetrace, Uganda Survivor Network, supported by IJM Uganda

April 17th session community speakers (moderator: LCN board chair Andrew Crespo)

  • Anita Tang, Organizing Director at Australian Progress, Australia
  • Takayo Kasai, Community Organizer at KIKOOP / Community Organizing Japan, Japan
  • Vijay Shehrawat, Co-founder of Youth For Climate India and Climate Justice Library, India

April 11th session: Americas, South West Asia, Africa, and Europe timezones

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