Resilience and Crisis: Developing an Adaptive Mindset for Social Innovation

Rasha Abu Safieh is Catalyst2030 Aotearoa New Zealand chapter co-chair, Edmund Hillary Fellow, Time Magazine Next Generation Leader 2018, co-founder of the first IT impact-sourcing social enterprise in Palestine, social entrepreneur, innovator, change-maker, mother, and much more. Rasha is a Palestinian refugee who studied in UNRWA school and lived through three wars in Gaza. A new migrant in New Zealand, Rasha will walk you through her lived life story, a story that will inspire you, a story that can tell you truthfully how a living crisis could be your pathway to creating system change. Rasha’s journey is an amazing illustration of the human spirit and being true to your universal guidance and values to bring hope and inspiration despite the cards of life we are dealt.