Meena Palaniappan's guest appearances

Meena Palaniappan

Ellevate Network: Conversations With Women Changing the Face of Business

ChangeMakers

The Response

Cohere Podcast

We Are For Good Podcast - The Podcast for Nonprofits

Chloe Carmichael

Whitney Johnson

Ramona Ortega

Claire Mazur

Erica Cerulo

Sallie Krawcheck

Laura Vanderkam

Whitney Bell

Sarah McBride

Luvvie Ajayi

Lindsey Stanberry

Nicole Antoinette

Madonna Badger

Zainab Salbi

Jean Chatzky

OwlTail

June Sugiyama

OverviewMeet June &amp; Meena. This dynamic tech-for-good team is on a global mission to empower girls with technology, and the results are quite extraordinary. Their combined expertise and grit is powering community-based technology projects in the developing world for the past two decades - and the effect is staggering. Tune in🎧💡LearnThe massive opportunity to put technological innovation to work for good.Importance of social media networks to enact positive change rather than spread misinformationCase Study: campaign to tackle vaccine hesitancy in Puerto RicoOverview of Atma Connect &amp; Vodafone Americas FoundationEpisode HighlightsMeena’s story and journey to where she is today (4:20)June’s story and journey to where she is today + an overview of Vodafone (6:00)How Meena met June + an overview of Atma Connect (10:15)Using Technology for Good (15:00)How women disproportionately experience the affects of disasters (19:00)Creating human-centered tech (32:00)A powerful moment of philanthropy in June’s life (37:45)A powerful moment of philanthropy in Meena’s life (40:10)June’s One Good Thing: You have to be really good listeners to create solutions; Meena’s One Good Thing: Being an entrepreneur is not the journey You know we believe in shaking things up and disrupting the status quo. That’s why we’re excited to share a new podcast that’s doing just that.Future Nonprofit was created by our friends at Historic Agency to elevate meaningful conversations that help us reimagine the entire sector. Listen and subscribe now on your favorite podcast platform or visit futurenonprofit.com. Let’s build the nonprofits of the future together. We want to thank the sponsors of this year's Responsive Nonprofit Summit that we co-presented with our friends at Virtuous. Thank you to Community Boost, DonorSearch, Feathr and Philanthropy Network for your support. We are honored to lock arms with you! 🥳Support the showSupport the We Are For Good PodcastWe believe education is for everyone. We strive to make our teaching as forward-thinking, accessible, affordable and inclusive as possible. Your generous support will help power the #ImpactUprising, free resources and community for change-agents globally. Join the We Are For Good CommunityYou can think of it as the after-party to each podcast episode 🥳Say hi👇LinkedIn / Instagram / Facebook / YouTube / Twitter 

Overview Meet <a href="https://weareforgood.us18.list-manage.com/track/click?u=aefe414cc9bd885da2f19516e&amp;id=c7a23b583c&amp;e=a568e7badd" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">J</a><a href="https://weareforgood.us18.list-manage.com/track/click?u=aefe414cc9bd885da2f19516e&amp;id=e3e3b0007b&amp;e=a568e7badd" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">une</a> &amp; <a href="https://weareforgood.us18.list-manage.com/track/click?u=aefe414cc9bd885da2f19516e&amp;id=34548e4f41&amp;e=a568e7badd" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Meena</a>. This dynamic tech-for-good team is on a global mission to empower girls with technology, and the results are quite extraordinary. Their combined expertise and grit is powering community-based technology projects in the developing world for the past two decades - and the effect is staggering. Tune in🎧💡Learn<ul><li>The massive opportunity to put technological innovation to work for good.</li><li>Importance of social media networks to enact positive change rather than spread misinformation</li><li>Case Study: campaign to tackle vaccine hesitancy in Puerto Rico</li><li>Overview of <a href="https://weareforgood.us18.list-manage.com/track/click?u=aefe414cc9bd885da2f19516e&amp;id=d10c09ddb3&amp;e=a568e7badd" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Atma Connect</a> &amp; <a href="https://weareforgood.us18.list-manage.com/track/click?u=aefe414cc9bd885da2f19516e&amp;id=848e20901f&amp;e=a568e7badd" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Vodafone Americas Foundation</a></li></ul>Episode Highlights<ul><li>Meena’s story and journey to where she is today (4:20)</li><li>June’s story and journey to where she is today + an overview of Vodafone (6:00)</li><li>How Meena met June + an overview of Atma Connect (10:15)</li><li>Using Technology for Good (15:00)</li><li>How women disproportionately experience the affects of disasters (19:00)</li><li>Creating human-centered tech (32:00)</li><li>A powerful moment of philanthropy in June’s life (37:45)</li><li>A powerful moment of philanthropy in Meena’s life (40:10)</li><li>June’s One Good Thing: You have to be really good listeners to create solutions; Meena’s One Good Thing: Being an entrepreneur is not the journey </li></ul>You know we believe in shaking things up and disrupting the status quo. That’s why we’re excited to share a new podcast that’s doing just that. Future Nonprofit was created by our friends at Historic Agency to elevate meaningful conversations that help us reimagine the entire sector. Listen and subscribe now on your favorite podcast platform or visit <a href="http://futurenonprofit.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">futurenonprofit.com</a>. Let’s build the nonprofits of the future together. We want to thank the sponsors of this year's Responsive Nonprofit Summit that we co-presented with our friends at <a href="https://virtuous.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Virtuous</a>. Thank you to <a href="https://www.communityboost.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Community Boost</a>, <a href="https://www.donorsearch.net/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">DonorSearch</a>, <a href="https://www.feathr.co/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Feathr</a> and <a href="https://philanthropy.network/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Philanthropy Network</a> for your support. We are honored to lock arms with you! 🥳<a href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/1258940/support" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">Support the show</a> <a href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/1258940/support" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Support the We Are For Good Podcast </a>We believe education is for everyone. We strive to make our teaching as forward-thinking, accessible, affordable and inclusive as possible. Your generous support will help power the #ImpactUprising, free resources and community for change-agents globally. <a href="https://www.weareforgoodcommunity.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Join the We Are For Good Community</a> You can think of it as the after-party to each podcast episode 🥳 Say hi👇 <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/600479/admin/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">LinkedIn </a>/<a href="https://www.instagram.com/weareforgood/?hl=en" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Instagram </a>/ <a href="https://www.facebook.com/weareforgood" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Facebook</a> / <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@weareforgood/videos" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">YouTube</a> / <a href="https://twitter.com/weareforgood_" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Twitter </a>

313. Partnerships in Action: How Mobile Tech is Driving Social Impact - June Sugiyama & Meena Palaniappan

This week, we sit down with June Sugiyama, Director of the Vodafone Americas Foundation, and Meena Palaniappan, Founder and CEO of Atma Connect, to discuss empowering women and girls through technology, being a changemaker in our community, and shifting and responding to the needs of users in tech, especially during the time of climate change. For more context on Kristy and Maricella's discussion, you can read this Fortune article:  https://fortune.com/2021/11/12/mental-health-leave-covid-stress-burn-out-at-work/

This week, we sit down with June Sugiyama, Director of the Vodafone Americas Foundation, and Meena Palaniappan, Founder and CEO of Atma Connect, to discuss empowering women and girls through technology, being a changemaker in our community, and shifting and responding to the needs of users in tech, especially during the time of climate change. For more context on Kristy and Maricella's discussion, you can read this Fortune article: <a href="https://fortune.com/2021/11/12/mental-health-leave-covid-stress-burn-out-at-work/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> https://fortune.com/2021/11/12/mental-health-leave-covid-stress-burn-out-at-work/</a>

Episode 289: Creating The World You Want, with June Sugiyama and Meena Palaniappan

Across her career, Meena has led large-scale technological changemaking networks in the Global South. She has developed the resources that have allowed communities to work with each other to respond to crisis and disaster - from floods to Covid. In this episode we learn from how she has created scaled change, focused on listening, valuing people, working with communities, and providing spaces for neighbours to help neighbours. For more on ChangeMakers Podcast - check us out at https://changemakerspodcast.org/, or on Twitter at @changemakers99 or @amandatatts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Across her career, Meena has led large-scale technological changemaking networks in the Global South. She has developed the resources that have allowed communities to work with each other to respond to crisis and disaster - from floods to Covid. In this episode we learn from how she has created scaled change, focused on listening, valuing people, working with communities, and providing spaces for neighbours to help neighbours.  For more on ChangeMakers Podcast - check us out at <a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/cYBjC5QPAYtxBnxrsOu5vf?domain=changemakerspodcast.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://changemakerspodcast.org/</a>, or on Twitter at @changemakers99 or @amandatatts. See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

ChangeMaker Chat - Meena Palaniappan - Digital ChangeMaking

In the developed world, the promise of social media (including Facebook) to create positive change has fallen well short of the mark. Mass social media is becoming increasingly manipulative and toxic.  In the developing world, mass social media's negative effects are even more dangerous, as manipulation and misinformation can quickly lead to real-world violence.  Meena Palaniappan, CEO and Founder of Atma Connect wants to change this. Atma Connect's goal is to connect over a billion people around the world living in vulnerable communities in order for them to take collective action, advocate with governments and lead the way to the future we need. In this episode of the Cohere Podcast, Meena and I discuss the circumstances that led her to found Atma Connect, the positive impact her products like AtmaGo are making, and her vision for social networks like AtmaGo to help create more equitable and resilient communities, both online and in the real world.   Meena on Her Journey to Founding Atma Connect "I became an environmental engineer because I really wanted to develop scalable solutions to the challenges that we're facing globally. In doing this work there, it became clear that we, as a global community, need to focus more attention on building power in vulnerable communities to lead the way.  One thing that just became apparent in my work, domestically and around the world was the fact that people who consume the least and have the least to do with environmental problems were the ones that were facing the biggest challenges, suffering the most, and had the least resources to overcome these challenges." Meena on Social Networks for Community Resilience  "It became apparent to me in working internationally on water and sanitation that the same communities that didn't have water and sanitation increasingly had mobile phones.  This started me on a journey of asking how could we use this ubiquitous technology to make visible the invisible and put people on the map in unignorable ways to get their needs addressed. Virtual communities are incredible because they give people a way to more rapidly spread solutions to aggregate and amplify their voices to take collective action and to advocate with governments.  I think that that's really fundamentally what the goal is, is to create these connections and build this power online that leads to real improvements in people's lives and where they live." Meena on the Impact of AtmaGo "People are sharing a lot of information about COVID, government resources, government restrictions, they're offering help and they're asking for help. People come to AtmaGo daily to find jobs, to build up entrepreneurship, to have community discussions about local needs, or to report problems to the government.  Because of that, it becomes all the more powerful in disaster. So in a disaster, people are receiving early warnings on AtmaGo that are leading them to take early action. An independent evaluation found that people receiving early warnings on AtmaGo move valuables, they evacuated, they warn their neighbors. Quantified at a scale of a million users this is $106 million in avoided economic losses and over 6,000 years of healthy life saved and they're using it in the entire cycle of building resilience."  Get involved: Atma Connect is always looking for volunteers and advisors to work on product design and management challenges, as well as network business models.  Atma Connect is an international non-profit. You can make a .   Resources &amp; Links Mentioned in the Episode: Atma Connect's  Atma Connect on  Atma Connect on

Building a Human-Centered Social Network with Meena Palaniappan