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Career advice & stories from global change-makers in Sport for Development 🥎🏀⚽️ 33 Episodes out now! 🔥

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💥 New Episode of #InspiraEMC with Elena Mercedes Haro! 💥

🎙 Episode 33: Elena Mercedes Haro (Guatemala & Peru) - How can sport achieve social & economic development goals in Latin America?

🇬🇹🇵🇪 Erika speaks to Mercedes about her SDP insights across Latin America and the Middle East, and her goal as an IOC Young Leader to facilitate sports for protection activities for migrant children.

🤺 Elena Mercedes Haro is a former member of the Women’s Saber National Fencing Team of Guatemala, an active IOC Young Leader, and works in the development sector in Jordan. Through her IOCYL project, "Talento en Movmiento" (Talent on the Move), Mercedes aims to promote psychosocial well-being and the inclusion of women or youth in income-generating opportunities (@iocyoungleaders @panasonic @yunussportshub).

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💥 New Episode of #InspiraEMC with Pauline Msungu! 💥

🎙 Episode 32: Pauline Msungu (Kenya) - How can sport help women develop their voices in Kenya?

🇰🇪 Erika speaks to Pauline about her experiences as an IOC Young Leader, and how she founded Beyond Sport_Kenya - a youth-led project in Rift Valley part of Kenya that works towards advocating for and promoting gender equality in and through sports.

⚽ Pauline Msungu is an IOC Young Leader, football player in the Kenyan Women Premier league, and a youth ambassador for the Bundesliga Youth Ambassadors’ project in Kenya. Pauline is passionate about football and gender equity and believes that sport is a powerful tool that creates positive social impact (@iocyoungleaders @panasonic @yunussportshub).

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💥 New Episode of #InspiraEMC with Sophia Papamichalopoulos! 💥

🎙 Episode 31: Sophia Papamichalopoulos (Cyprus) - How can sailing promote peacebuilding in Cyprus?

🇨🇾 Erika speaks to Sophia about her experiences as an Olympian and IOC Young Leader, and how she founded Winds of Change (@windsofchange_cyprus) - an initiative that aims to create the first bi-communal Cypriot sailing team that will sail around the divided island together.

⛵ Sophia Papamichalopoulos is an Olympic alpine skier who competed at the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games, and she is now a resident doctor at the Department of Visceral Surgery and Transplantation of the University Hospital in Zurich. Next to her medical career, Sophia remains engaged in sports and the Olympic Movement by being appointed to the World Sailing Medical Commission, she contributed to the Athlete365 Space at the Winter Olympic Games in PyeongChang, and Sophia was selected as an IOC Young Leader in 2021 (@iocyoungleaders @panasonic @yunussportshub).

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💥 New Episode of #InspiraEMC with Oscar Mwaanga! 💥

🎙 Episode 30: Oscar Mwaanga (Zambia & UK) - Why must we decolonize Sport for Development?

🇿🇲 Erika speaks to Dr. Oscar about his experience inspiring the SDP movement in sub Saharan Africa at the turn of the century, the importance of education and knowledge sources, his positionality, and the need to decolonize SDP and higher education.

🥊 Dr. Oscar Mwaanga is an esteemed academic and activist, currently serving as the Programme Director of International Sport Management at University of London, and promotes social justice through research initiatives on decolonisation within education systems worldwide. He pioneered the Sport for Development movement in Sub-Saharan Africa which resulted in several successful programmes and organizations such as Kicking AIDS Out Movement, EduSport Foundation, and Go Sisters Programme.

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💥 New Episode of #InspiraEMC with Nicole Matuska! 💥

🎙 Episode 29: Nicole Matuska (USA) - How can we democratize philanthropy & center feminist voices in Sport for Development?

🇺🇸 Erika speaks to Nicole about democratizing philanthropy, gaming and esports, and how Women Win serves as a global multi-dimensional women’s fund guided by the vision of a future where every girl and woman exercises their rights.

🎮 Nicole Matuska is the Global GRLS Director at Women Win (@women_win), where she has taken on the strategic lead of girls’ rights through sport initiative, working with implementing partners across the development, sport and women's rights sectors to advance the playing field that empowers adolescent girls and young women to exercise their rights through sport and play. Together with partners, Women Win has impacted the lives of over 4 million adolescent girls and young women in over 100 countries.

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💥 New Episode of #InspiraEMC with Cathy Neap! 💥

🎙 Episode 28: Cathy Neap (Papua New Guinea) - How can sport prevent gender based violence in PNG?

🇵🇬 Erika speaks to Cathy about leadership, gender based violence in Papua New Guinea, and how sport can lead to multiple positive developmental outcomes in society.

🏉 Cathy Neap is the Sport for Development Country Manager for the National Rugby League (NRL), overseeing the NRL-run, DFAT-funded League for Life program in Papua New Guinea. Cathy has represented her country in both codes of rugby, and was the inaugural captain of the PNG Orchids (the country’s national women’s rugby league team) when it was formed in 2017, leading her nation at the world cup that year.

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💥 New Episode of #InspiraEMC with Steve Fleming! 💥

🎙 Episode 27: Steve Fleming (UK & Lesotho) - How can social enterprise & radical football accelerate Sport for Development?

🇬🇧 Erika speaks to Steve about building the sport for good organization Kick4Life, the potential of social enterprise as part of a balanced fund-raising approach, the importance of representation in the sports sector, and his book Radical Football.

⚽🇱🇸 Steve Fleming is co-founder of Kick4Life F.C. (@kick4life @kick4lifefc), a multi-award winning charity, social enterprise and football club based in Lesotho, which delivers a range of football for good interventions covering health, education, gender and climate action, as well as providing structured training and employment opportunities for hundreds of young people via its hospitality enterprises. Steve is also the author of Eleven: Stories of Development through Football - published in 2010, and Radical Football - published in 2022.

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💥 New Episode of #InspiraEMC with Sana Mahmud! 💥

🎙 Episode 26: Sana Mahmud (Pakistan) - Why does sport have a special power for women in Pakistan?

🇵🇰 Erika speaks to Sana about the relationship between sport and self-esteem for women in Pakistan, insights gained from a randomized data study at Right to Play, and how building community ownership may ensure program sustainability.

🏀⚽🏆 Sana Mahmud is a multi-sport athlete and sport-for-development expert, currently working as a Program Manager at Right To Play International in Pakistan. She is the former Captain of the Pakistan National Women's Football and Basketball Teams, and an alumna of the Fulbright Program, through which she completed a M.A in International Development Studies from Ohio University in the United States, with a focus on Sport, Gender and Development.

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💥 New Episode of #InspiraEMC with Samia K. Khatib! 💥

🎙 Episode 25: Samia K. Khatib (Lebanon) - How to become a master facilitator in Sport for Development?

🇱🇧 Erika speaks to Samia about her experiences as a GIZ master facilitator building capacity of local leaders through sport on the topics of health, employability, and gender in the Middle East, Northern Africa, and Central Asia.

🥋 Samia K. Khatib was a Peace and Sport Young Ambassador, holds a MSc in sport and exercise psychology from Loughborough University, and has used her background in psychology and her passion for sport to work in Sport for Development and Peace. She has occupied multiple positions in the SDP practitioner field as a coach, instructor, master trainer, and capacity developer, and she has worked with the GIZ and other organizations in Lebanon, Indonesia, Philippines, Morocco, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Egypt.

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💥 New Episode of #InspiraEMC with Etsuko Yamada! 💥

🎙 Episode 24: Etsuko Yamada (Japan) - Why is passion not enough to sustain Sport for Development?

🇯🇵 Erika speaks to Etsuko about the Sport for Development landscape in Japan, her experience working for UNOSDP in Switzerland, and the importance of bringing a business perspective into SDP programs.

⛷️ Etsuko is the Head of International Sport for Development at Japan Sport Council, where she works to integrate SDP into its policy, suggesting measures and strategies to the Japanese national and local governments. She has been leading the project that JSC and Swiss Academy for Development (SA4D / sportanddev.org) launched in 2018, seeking to build capacity for policy makers and practitioners in how to use sport as a tool for sustainable development, and she previously served as the Program Officer for the United Nations Office on Sport for Development and Peace (UNOSDP) in Geneva.

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💥 New Episode of #InspiraEMC with Rochelle Stewart-Withers! 💥

🎙 Episode 23: Rochelle Stewart-Withers (New Zealand) - Where are the indigenous voices in Sport for Development?

🇳🇿 Erika speaks to Dr. Rochelle about her experience entering SDP from a Nursing and Development Studies background, the missing literature in SDP from and for indigenous voices, whose voice counts as knowledge, and how we can indigenize the sector.

📚 Associate Professor Rochelle Stewart-Withers has tribal links to Ngāti Rāhiri Hapū o Te Ātiawa, and is currently Head of Programme for the Institute of Development Studies at Massey University. Rochelle's research focuses on the way sport is used in developing countries, and with Indigenous populations, to achieve social and economic goals and bring about social justice.

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💥 New Episode of #InspiraEMC with Rahul Bissoonauth! 💥

🎙 Episode 22: Rahul Bissoonauth (UK) - How can we diversify funding streams in Sport for Development?

🇬🇧 Erika speaks to Rahul about the importance of sustainable funding streams, social business, and enlisting leaders within the sector from diverse ethnic backgrounds.

📈 Rahul Bissoonauth is an experienced commercial director who has led strategy and fundraising projects for hundreds of diverse-led organizations and nonprofits across the UK and around the world. Rahul is currently the Chief Commercial Officer at Yunus Sports Hub (@yunussportshub), a Board member at the Football Foundation, and previously 10.5 years as the Director of Business Development at Oaks Consultancy.

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