Executive Director, Solidaire Network and Solidaire Action
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Bio
Rajasvini Bhansali is the Executive Director of Solidaire Network and Solidaire Action, a community of donor organizers mobilizing critical resources to the frontlines of intersectional movements for racial, gender and climate justice. In her wide-ranging career devoted to racial, economic, and climate justice. She previously led an international public foundation that funds grassroots organizing in Asia, Africa, and Latin America; grew a national youth development social enterprise; managed a public telecommunications infrastructure fund addressing the digital divide in the southern United States; and worked as a community organizer, researcher, planner, policy analyst, and strategy consultant. Vini also spent several years working in rural Kenya with community leaders, an experience she credits as having inspired her to work to transform philanthropy and international development. To that end, she currently serves on several philanthropic boards. Vini co-authored Leading with Joy: Practices for Uncertain Times. She is also a published poet, essayist, popular educator, yoga instructor and leadership coach.