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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Panthea Lee
Executive Director
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 Bennett
International Programme & Partnerships / Creative Bureaucracy Festival
Robyn likes joining the dots between people, ideas and agendas to rethink broken systems and create more human places. Having avoided becoming a civil servant precisely out of fear that heavy bureaucracy would squash her creative spirit, helping to grow the Creative Bureaucracy movement felt like a fitting mission.
Robyn’s background is in interdisciplinary cultural studies and she prides herself on being a multilingual brit. Beyond organising the Creative Bureaucracy Festival, she supports city leadership teams and values-led initiatives with strategy sparring, innovation practices and network relations. She’s often found in conversation with Charles Landry.