Global Donut Days 2025: Opening Session

About the session

Global Donut Days celebrate the action that members of the DEAL Community are taking in engaging with Doughnut Economics worldwide - in communities, in local government, in education, in business, and through many other approaches.

The momentum is inspiring, and yet 2025 has brought a new level of geopolitical intensity and instability to the world - from the rapid rise of authoritarian politics to military aggression, humanitarian crises and genocide, and to the sharp realities of climate and ecological breakdown - which makes the context in which this work takes place all the more challenging.

In this opening session of Global Donut Days we will hear from three determined changemakers whose work is engaged in place-based transformation, inviting them to reflect on why standing by the vision and practice of their work is so important in times such as these.

Session speakers:

• Imandeep Kaur, Co - Founder and Director of CIVIC SQUARE: Throughout her decade-long career, Immy has focused on convening and building community, the role of citizens in radical systemic change, and how we together create more democratic, distributed, open source social and civic infrastructure. Through this work she has discovered much about economic justice and broader injustices, the pivotal role of land and social/civic infrastructure in neighbourhoods, and the value extracted from communities through our broken investment models. It’s an ongoing journey of discovery, emergence and learning together.
• Kamana Beamer, Professor in the Hui ʻĀina Momona Program at the University of Hawaiʻi-Mānoa: Kamana serves a dual appointment in the Hawaiʻinuiākea School of Hawaiian Knowledge and in the William S. Richardson School of Law as part of Ka Huli Ao Center for Excellence in Native Hawaiian Law. Dr. Beamer’s research interests and publications focus on indigenous agency, governance, Native Hawaiian land tenure, Hawaiian resource management, and land and resource law of the Hawaiian Kingdom. He is also one of the fourteen co-founders of ʻĀina Aloha Economic Futures (AAEF), an initiative with the goal of uplifting Hawaiian values to guide economic recovery efforts. By prioritizing community-centered engagement, AAEF has advised economic development strategies centered around aloha ʻāina since April 2020.
• Maisarah Faiesall, Special Assistant to Tan Sri Dr Jemilah Mahmood, Sunway University. Maisarah is a First-Class graduate of International Relations with Mandarin from the University of Nottingham, Malaysia with experience in research and analysis, new media communications, and youth engagement, in both the public and private sector. Her career has largely been motivated to bridging the gap between academia and communities through close engagement of local actors and translation of evidence-based research into digestible materials. Previously, Maisarah had served as a researcher to the Prime Minister of Malaysia’s Public Health Advisor working on public health and disaster risk reduction. Prior to that, she had contributed to research and community engagement across a broad range of subjects including digital rights and data protection, sexual and gender-based violence prevention, and sustainable development, with both think tanks and civil society organisations in Malaysia.
• Hosted by Kate Raworth, Co-Founder and Conceptual Lead at Doughnut Economics Action Lab. Kate is an ecological economist focused on making economics fit for 21st century realities. She is the creator of the Doughnut of social and planetary boundaries. Her international best-selling book, Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think like a 21st Century Economist, has been translated into more than 20 languages. Over the past 25 years she has worked with Oxfam, UNDP, and in the Ministry of Trade and Industry of Zanzibar. 

This session will include BSL interpreting.

How to register

Please use this Zoom link to register for the session. If you would like to know more about the session, or if you have any access requirements, please email us at donutdays@doughnuteconomics.org  

For your information: this GDD 2025 DEAL session (via Zoom) will be recorded and shared on the Doughnut Economics Action Lab Youtube channel. By attending the session you agree to the session being recorded. If you do not want to appear in the recording, please turn your video / camera off.

If you’re unable to attend the session, check back to our website after Global Donut Days 2025, where we’ll share the recordings. Please note, as our events aim to connect the people in the DEAL community, we ask that you do not send an AI notetaker in your place.