Mina Girgis

Mina Girgis is the producer & CEO of the Nile Project, an ethnomusicologist and a serial entrepreneur specialized in building innovative spaces and tools for cross-cultural musical learning.

About

In 2011, he started the Nile Project – an international nonprofit that promotes the sustainability of the Nile River by curating innovative collaborations among musicians, university students, and professionals. In 2009, Mina founded Zambaleta, a community World Music school based in San Francisco, California. Mina has received awards and fellowships from Wired Magazine, National Arts Strategies, Synergos and Seeds of Peace.

Mina joins the Othering & Belonging Institute as a senior fellow working towards strengthening and scaling up the collaboration between the Nile Project and the Othering & Belonging Institute. The collaboration aims to set up the foundation for deeper engagement of the Nile Project with UC Berkeley and Bay Area communities, and activate new endeavors in the Nile Basin.

http://nileproject.org/ Twitter: @minagirgis

Agenda

Oct

Learning Lab: Cultural Strategies for Belonging: Learning from Doing 2019-2021

Two years into our cultural strategy efforts, the work has affirmed the importance and power of culture’s role in creating belonging. Learn from four projects - on care, climate displacement, planning and development, and abolition - that exemplify the four practices of our strategy. Designed for: Artists, cultural strategy practitioners, n on-profit staff, organizers and funders interested in strengthening cultural strategy in organizing, research, planning or other social change work. Lab registration is open to conference participants only. After registering for the conference, you will...