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Kingston, NY

Anezka Sebek is currently undertaking Hindi Language Studies with The American Institute of Indian Studies, Jaipur (September – May 2023). She is also working in Kingston, New York on several continuing projects in affordable housing, climate justice, and education in various new media such as virtual and gamified experiences. Before her Emeritus Professor transition (June 2021), she designed curricula in BFA/MFA Design and Technology Programs in virtual, augmented and mixed reality technologies, as well as teaching in studio and thesis courses. Her extensive career in the film industry includes projects for television, advertising, documentaries, and feature films. She was best known as visual effects and computer animation producer for technologically complex projects that combined live-action with digital effects. She has written, produced, and directed music videos, narrative shorts, and documentaries. Ms. Sebek served on juries for Association for Computing Machinery Siggraph Electronic and Animation Theater and Ars Electronica (Linz, Austria). She was invited to speak at the Post-City Ars Electronica Festival Expanded Animation Panel (2015) about the changing field of new media and animation technologies. Her talk inspired an article in Expanded Animation, Mapping An Unlimited Landscape, entitled “Now You Touch It, Now You Don’t” (October 2019).  She curated the New School Nth Degree series events, Immersive Storytelling Symposium (February 2017). Her Ph.D. in Sociology (2016) dissertation, Family Homelessness in the Small City (2016), is an ethnographic qualitative method study of the social strata and bureaucracies that control the lack of affordable housing and living-wage jobs in post-industrial Northeast American cities. In January of 2020, Anezka was a Scholar-in-Residence at IIT Gandhinagar, Palaj, Gujarat, India. In January 2018, Anezka first traveled to  Institution of Technology (IIT) at the Gandhinagar with 28 New School students. For two weeks, students developed possible answers to the wicked problems of how to Design for a Billion. In her Ed Tech and Design Thinking studio, she worked with faculty and New School and middle school students to create extended reality (VR/AR/MR) projects that use systems thinking to understand biological solutions to pollution and the effects of climate change. With her colleague, Tammy Walters, she won a Verizon 5G Challenge Grant to create a multi-player virtual reality experience that teaches middle school and college students how to rebuild an oyster reef (2019-2020). She has done work with The Pandemic Worlds Seminar at The India-China Institute in Spring 2021 where she contributed as a fellow to study the effects of the Pandemic on three populations in Mumbai, Gujarat, and Kingston, New York.   

Vancouver BC Canada

Retired Family physician, trained at KCH Medical School London UK. Life member of the RSA. Interest in inner city problems & a circular economy.  presenting Kate’s book to my non-fiction book club group this month. Have friends in Nanaimo city on Vancouver Island involved with their city’s move toward a doughnut economic model.

Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland

Hi, I am Melanie, a finance profesionnal for over 16 years after studies of Business Administration and some Economics.  In the last 8 years, besindes Finance, I was in charge of CSR of a SME in Geneva and my interest in sustainable business transformation gott bigger every day though often created conflictual interests with my financial objectives. I got increasingly ambitious in digging beyond carbon accounting in business' strategy and governance and beyond business in the bigger picture of the system we are operating and living in.  This is how I got interested in Donut Economics - quite late actually - and I was immediately fascinated by the logical and inclusive concept but moreover by Kate Raworth visionary and highly encouraging speeches. I am as well a big supporter of peer mentoring and collective intelligence for creating better ideas, innovation and engagement. As an enthousiastic cyclist in the city and in the mountains, I am very interested in mobility topics especially in terms of urban policies and transformation in my local environment and believe that the concept of the 15-minute city is part of the solution.    #15-minute city

Chiba, Japan

Makoto Suhara is a distinguished international business strategist with a career spanning over a decade at leading consulting firms across the United States, Europe, and Asia. His expertise facilitates cross-border business expansions, particularly between Japan and international markets. Key Career Highlights: - Extensive consulting experience in San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Europe, China, and Southeast Asia - Former Japan Vice President of a prominent American business intelligence firm - The fund manager for the "Fukushima Growth Industry Development Fund" in collaboration with NEC Capital Solutions and Shinsei Bank - Asia Representative for an American forensic service provider - Japan Branch Manager of a French strategy consulting firm In January 2019, Suhara became Special Assistant to the Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Republic of Estonia and Japan Representative of Enterprise Estonia. In this capacity, he has been instrumental in: - Facilitating Estonian companies' entry into the Japanese market - Supporting Japanese investments in Estonia - Advising on digital transformation initiatives for municipalities across Japan - Contributing to smart city and super city policy development and implementation Academic Pursuits: Suhara transitioned to academia in April 2021, pursuing a Ph.D. in Business Administration at Aoyama Gakuin University's Graduate School of Business. He is also a researcher at the university's SDGs Human Resource Development Partnership Institute. Current Roles: - Advisor to local governments across Japan on new industry creation, regional development, and digital transformation in healthcare and education - Special researcher at the Yuda Onsen Research Institute in Yamaguchi City Education: - MBA from the University of Southern California, CA, USA - EMBA from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, PRC - MBA (Public Sector) from Willamette University, OR. USA - BA from Bushnell University, OR. USA - BA from Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan Makoto Suhara's diverse international business experience and academic pursuits make him a valuable asset in bridging global business practices and local development strategies in Japan.

Bristol, England, United Kingdom

As CEO of award-winning charity City to Sea, I’m driven to transform our take, make waste system into a circular economy where resources are valued and cherished. From period pants to refillable laundry liquid or returnable cups, City to Sea’s work is designed to change the way we shop for good, helping businesses, organisations, individuals and communities to transition away from linear systems. Professionally I have broad experience across environmental, culture, FMCG and retail.   My career started out in live music delivering sponsored activations at live music events and festivals. This led to marketing campaigns for big FMCG brands like Budweiser, Britvic Soft Drinks and Jameson. I even successfully launched a new bottled water brand for one of my clients, so I understand brand marketing and new product development alongside the environmental impacts of the market. The rest of my career has been split between culture and environmental sectors, both public and private sector.  From leading client services for theatre and music companies to growing the organic market at Soil Association.  I’m a qualified marketeer and recently graduated from the University of Bristol with distinction for an MSc in Strategy, Change and Leadership. Talk to me about progressive ways of working, environmental and social justice and better ways to do business. 

Wellington, New Zealand

I am a Senior Advisor in the Planning and Reporting team at Me Heke Ke Pōneke - Wellington City Council, Te Whanganui o Tara - Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand. We are developing a data model based on Doughnut Economics and the SDGs with the goal that we make better decisions for our residents and our city, now and into the future. I welcome any advice or information that will help with the development and application of the data model. I am very appreciative of the resources available on DEAL and the support from the wider DEAL network.  

Mexico City, Mexico

I am French living in Mexico City for 9 years. I am agronomist but I decided a few years ago dedicate to fashion design, my Pasion since childhood. I developed a fashion brand to propose a respectful approach of making clothes: Kristilla is “Conscious Elegance”.We care about people, we care about the environment. With this state of mind, I discovered Green Donut organization and the Textile Untangled workshop and I get seduced by the concept. I became a facilitator and country coordinator in Mexico. That’s why i want to join the Donut Economics community, to be part of this amazing movement. I look forward to meat other people and organizations with the same spirit and interest.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Burak Pak is the Director of the Design for Circular Cities Master of Science program and a Senior Lecturer in Circular Cities at Deakin University. 

journey of personal and professional growth within the MasterPeace organization.

We celebrated 5 years of Doughnut Economy in Amsterdam with our annual Festival: Donut & Friends

GDD 2025 events showed how the Doughnut is being adapted and applied across diverse contexts in Brazil

GDD activities at the Museum of Tomorrow, Rio de Janeiro - Brazil

Festival summary, organisational learning and the way forward...

The county's structural transformation due to the coal phase-out is being accompanied by the ideas of Doughnut Economics

Creating distributive economies through local community ownership

Making the built environment more regenerative

Climate change, inequality, and ecological collapse are some of the biggest challenges we face today. They demand collaboration not only across governments but with communities, citizens, and businesses.

New York, New York, United States

Currently working as an independent writer and researcher for my Substack newsletter Arcology 2.0: Toward a New Urban Systems Science --  Arcology 2.0 helps you to understand why our cities are thermodynamically broken -- and what the post-carbon/post-growth city must look like to survive the Great Simplification.  I'm a consilient thinker integrating the concepts of planetary ecological boundaries, biophysical systems, regenerative economics and urban human habitat,Calling on all urbanists, ecological economists, sustainability educators, degrowth thinkers, architects, city planners, and intellectually curious generalists who feel the urgency of civilizational transition. 

An overview of the lessons, activities and teaching tools available on the DEAL Community Platform

A design tool to help cultivate the collective imagination towards the safe and just space of the Doughnut

A canvas that invites the Doughnut pioneers of your place to share their stories, perspectives and dreams

A collection of tools & stories to apply the ideas of Doughnut Economics to your community

Set of workshops tailored for local governments using DEAL tools like Doughnut Unrolled, Step into the Doughnut etc.

The Frankfurt Doughnut Coalition is starting to think about a variety of workshops that we could run for interested s...