Panthea Lee is the lead for strategy and partnerships at the New York-based social impact organization Reboot. She has designed and facilitated multi-stakeholder processes in dozens of countries across the world. In this interview, she talks about what true co-creation requires and about centring the voices of marginalized and oppressed communities.
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A pursuit of active democracy and radical kindness
Panthea Lee, Robyn Bennett
Panthea Lee is the Executive Director of Reboot, where she leads unlikely but courageous collaborations between communities, activists, and institutions to advance social justice. She has directed co-creation processes in 30+ countries, resulting in bold new efforts to protect human rights defenders, advance participatory democracy, and drive media innovation. Her work has been featured in Al Jazeera, The Atlantic, Fast Company, New York Times, and MIT Innovations. She serves on the boards of Development Gateway and People Powered.
Robyn likes joining the dots between people, ideas and agendas to help reimagine possible futures and rewire broken systems. Having avoided becoming a civil servant precisely out of fear that heavy bureaucracy would dampen her creative spirit, helping to grow the Creative Bureaucracy initiative felt like a fitting mission. Robyn looks after the Creative Bureaucracy Festival’s international programme, collaborations and community. With a background in interdisciplinary cultural analysis, cross-sector innovation consulting, and systems thinking, she cares deeply about bridging the divides and shifting the power dynamics that stop us from transforming systems for the better. She especially wishes to bring more joy to this realm of work.