As a parting gift to her school and fellow students, Rafaela Damasceno, an international GIN Leader and Youth Director, was driven to show and share:
- the importance of understanding an issue as a system
- how we see/ perceive the issue
- and the importance of understanding community perception
when solving an issue.
As a co-developer of GIN’s empathetic systems approach to problem-solving and design thinking, she wished to share and test what she had built with her team of GIN Youth Directors and GIN Staff to empower young ISC leadership with sustainable solution-oriented mindsets and skills.
Empowered by her time spent as both a student at ISC and a GIN Project Lead/ Youth Director, she was driven to create a learning experience that showed the strengths, successes and potential of ISC to fellow students while introducing her peers to an instrumental aspect of the GIN Project Process and Best Practices rooted in equitable sustainability: the GIN Research & Community Interviews process. Below you will find who led, participated and supported the initiative, along with the background, materials and resources that were used to actualize the initiative.
Below you will see how the GIN Student Leads of the minGIN ISC Community Conference, worked with their ISC peers to both highlight and leverage ISC past to present initiatives and inspire student-led action!
