Meet our coaches

Rawan Zeine has over 14 years of experience in community organizing and leadership development, dedicated to empowering activists and social movements in the Arab world and globally.
She is the founder of Ta3leeleh, an organization dedicated to amplifying the voices of the Jordanian people to foster mutual listening, learning, respect, and empowerment. She has coached campaigns on critical issues, including an initiative to end child marriage among Syrian refugees in Lebanon. For seven years, she worked closely with Professor Marshall Ganz at Harvard, teaching and coordinating programs that equip leaders worldwide with the skills to mobilize their communities. She continues this work with activists and change-makers in the Arab world through Ahel, a community organizing organization in Jordan.
Rawan now focuses on training, coaching, and designing certification programs to build the capacity of change-makers across the Arab world and beyond.

Sadie (she/her) is a Southern-born movement strategist, leadership coach, and racial justice organizer who’s spent the past decade building power with communities on the frontlines of systemic injustice. Raised in Tampa Bay, Sadie co-founded the Restorative Justice Coalition to confront anti-Black violence in the criminal legal system and create pathways for healing and care. Her work blends campaign strategy, political education, and restorative practice—always rooted in the belief that movements thrive when they are led with clarity, reflection, and collective courage. She’s coached over 350 leaders, launched 50+ grassroots campaigns, and served in leadership roles at organizations like Color Of Change and Black Feminist Future. Currently, she coaches global changemakers through Harvard Kennedy School’s Executive Education program, supporting them to lead with purpose, power, and imagination.

Sergio Lopez is a leadership educator, public narrative coach, and master facilitator. Sergio’s mission is to leverage the power of the soul to help changemakers and their organizations build their capacity for catalyzing transformational change. Sergio teaches pastoral leadership in the Graduate Theological Studies Department at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles and serves as Sr. Trainer for Leadership Development at Catholic Relief Services.

Shay Leighton is a social activist, community organiser, unionist, creator of Tough Guy Book Club & The Game Club, who has spent 25 years helping people build stronger communities through collaborative strategy, courageous conversations, and leadership development. He uses personal narrative, collectivism, and community organising frameworks to rebuild civic networks and address issues such as community health, literacy, and loneliness. Shay teaches others how to harness their stories, resources, and values to build power within their communities and create meaningful change. His lifelong fascination with people and their stories fuels his passion for helping others find their voice, be heard, and truly listened to

Sreejani is the founder and Director of AYLI Peers Foundation- a peer led mental health collective that enables non-judgmental dialogic spaces and strengthens leadership of young people to challenge mental health stigma. Sreejani has been in the social development sector working on diverse socio-cultural issues like gender, sexuality, youth focused movements for a decade.

She is trained in Leadership, organize, Action (LOA) course from the Harvard Kennedy School by Prof. Marshall Ganz, and prioritises her work around the leadership practices of relationship building and crafting stories for change. In her work on mental health, she brings in the LOA practices rooted in people, stories and relational power in challenging stigma. In 2019, as part of Haiyya (youth feminist organization in India), with the community of young unmarried women, she led and won the campaign Health Over Stigma by shifting accountability to service providers to ensure stigma free sexual and reproductive health services to unmarried women- this changed her life and approach towards leadership and since then, she has been an organizer for life! She has completed the Train the Trainers Program from Leading Change Network(LCN) and has been loving the role of a trainer and coach in multiple workshops and trainings regionally, nationally and globally for 6+years. A proud moment for her was when she was a coach for the Obama Foundation Public Narrative Workshop series.