Lina at Tribeca Talks

Lina is an advocate, strategist, writer, speaker, producer, and storyteller. Her projects are designed with and in service to communities with lived experience of our global challenges. She works collaboratively for positive, collective, community-led change. Her work elevates the stories of these communities to highlight the models of change we all need to adopt and embed.

With the belief that everyone deserves the chance to live a fulfilled life in a peaceful, just, prospering community, Lina has dedicated her life's work to building a world grounded in justice, equity, collective prosperity, creativity, and joy. She has founded the Center for Transformational Change, a social enterprise aimed at building a just future.

Official Brief Bio

Lina Srivastava is a strategist, advocate, and producer who catalyzes and amplifies social impact, social movements, and systems change by combining technology, culture, and art. She creates narrative-based social change initiatives with NGOs, global institutions, and independent media creators, combining field experience and direct service with skills in media and audience engagement, expertise in human-centered and community-centered design, and a focus on community leadership. She is the founder of the Center for Transformational Change, a global impact platform to cultivate community power to build just futures. She previously founded CIEL | Creative Impact and Experience Lab, an innovation studio working at the intersection of human rights, international development, and narrative strategies. A former attorney and former non-profit executive director, Lina has worked with organizations such as the ICRC, UNICEF, UNESCO, the IRC, The New Humanitarian, FilmAid, and the GenderAvenger Futures Project, and on social engagement campaigns for several award-winning documentaries and immersive media projects. Lina is a Fulbright Specialist, on the US State Department’s American Film Showcase roster, faculty-at-large in the Masters of Design for Social Innovation Program and faculty in the Masters of Products of Design Program at SVA. She has been a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Fellow, a recipient of a Rockefeller Foundation leadership grant, a Rockwood Institute/JustFilms Fellow, a Boehm Media Fellow, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Lina is a graduate of New York University School of Law.

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