Bottom-up Policymaking for Belonging
Monday 30 October 2023 11:00 to 12:00Speakers: |
Ana Helena Chacón, former Vice President, Ambassador, and Congress Woman of Costa Rica Kim Samuel, Visiting Research Fellow, Green Templeton College |
Location: |
Barclay Room, Green Templeton College |
About the event
In this session, these two speakers will explore how belonging can be better integrated into policymaking and social systems, particularly in reference to marginalized groups such as those with disabilities and those experiencing multidimensional poverty. The format will be informal in style, and participants are invited to partake in the conversation.
About the speakers
Ana Helena Chacón is the former Vice President of Costa Rica, Ambassador to Spain, congresswoman, and current Senior Policy Advisor at the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative. Ms Chacón has held positions in both private and public institutions, where she consistently defended human rights. She represented the Costa Rican Union of Chambers and Associations of Private Enterprises (UCCAEP) in the Commission for Employability of People with Disabilities in the Ministry of Labor, she served as Director of Management Consulting in Deloitte, and she was elected deputy to the Legislative Assembly of Costa Rica. For over 20 years, she has worked on disability, poverty, infancy and gender, as director or board member in organizations like FUNDECOR, Paniamor Foundation, Coalition of Women Leaders against the Feminization of HIV, Solidarity Triangle Program, Association for People with Down Syndrome, and National Council of Rehabilitation and Special Education.
Kim Samuel is an activist, educator, scholar, and leading voice in the global movement for belonging. She is the founder and chief belonging officer of the Samuel Centre for Social Connectedness (SCSC), a ‘think-and-do tank’ that partners with leading advocacy groups and research organizations to combat social isolation and build belonging around the world. Kim is currently a visiting research fellow at Green Templeton College, University of Oxford, and a visiting scholar at the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI). Kim is the author of On Belonging: Finding Connection in an Age of Isolation, an exploration of the crisis of social isolation and our birth right of belonging, published by Abrams Press in 2022.
