Live webinar: Ancestral Economies ("A Seat at the Donut" Podcast GDD Event)
How can we learn from ancestral wisdom to address the economic crisis of today?
Posted by Glocal Change Collective (Glocal Link)
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Join us for the ‘Seat at the Donut’ inaugural live webinar podcast episode!
WHEN: Oct 24th 2026, 6pm - 7:15pm BST
Ancestral Wisdom and Alternative Economies: How can trust, relationships, and community connections become the roots of our economies? Ancestral and Indigenous knowledge are too often viewed as relics of the past, to be memorialized or romanticized. How can we reframe? How can we learn from traditional practices and frameworks and view them as ongoing, contemporary strategies? How and when can cultural wisdom address today’s economic and ecological crises?
Our three incredible guests will discuss these subjects amongst and alongside one another.
We will be warmly welcoming:
- Celina Valadez, Social Economies Coordinator and ecofeminist + solidarity economies practitioner of multiple decades from Mexico City
- Brenda França, a leader of the OSP and Pretitude do Cabula in Bahia, Brazil
- Grassroot Economics local leader from Nairobi, Kenya (tba)
If you:
- Seek practical knowledge to move beyond the failures of our current economic and social systems
- Want to spend an hour with people who are dreaming of and building communities of care and resilience
- Believe in the transformative nature of deep cultural wisdom and cross-border exchange
The guests will be speaking in Spanish, Portuguese and English. Live translation will be available!
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Duc Chu
Espoo, Uusimaa, Finland
Working towards sustainable transitions and democratic economy. Outreach member of a student-led cafe co-op at Aalto University, Finland. Would love to have a chat and discuss collaborations :)
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Eva Marina Valencia Leñero
Mexico City, Mexico
| Sustainability Transitions Specialist | Co-Founder of Mexico City's Doughnut Economic Coalition + Scaling Coordinator in CIMMYT-CGIAR After finishing my MSc in Environmental Sciences, Policy and Management in Lund University with a thesis to downscale the doughnut for Mexico City's water policies, I learned research was not enough to make a change. For this reason, I have co-founded the Tricolor Coalition (Mexico City's Doughnut Economic Coalition) to collaborate with other agents of change to promote sustainability transitions in Mexico City. We are now developing community, informative, and capacity building activities to support Mexico City's agents of change interested in promoting this transition. I am currently also working as a Scaling Coordinator in the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center. In my job, I continue to learn about systems thinking approaches, and about what types of food innovations could be scaled (why? and where?) to create more impact. Moreover, I also have experience in international and national public administrations, and I have specialized in the water-food-energy sectors and climate change challenges.
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