the UFI does not belong to anyone in particular, it has neither co-founders nor co-leaders, it is the fruit of a moment and space that is, has been and will continue maturing slowly. we know that uncountable people have been dreaming it up and we are presenting you here but a few of them who have come together across the years to assist its birth and co-creation.

as a collective, we have, among many other things:

◇ co-founded multiple award-winning high-impact social enterprises and innovation initiatives in the fields of education, cryptocurrency and gender advocacy,

◇ worked as regenerative farmers, in elderly care and as executives in a multinational oil company and an anarchist collective,

◇ shown our art at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, the National Museum of Art in Bolivia, at major art fairs and at local cafés,

◇ our work has been published in Al Jazeera, The Guardian, Truthout, Fast Company, Kosmos Journal, New Internationalist, and the Huffington Post,

◇ we served on the boards of WWF Switzerland, Greenpeace US and the Joseph Campbell Foundation,

◇ we taught classes and lectured at undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate level at leading universities across the planet...

◇ led our indigenous and non-indigenous communities as spiritual guides, political representatives and ambassadors,

◇ been distinguished as a fellow by Ashoka, the RSA, the Policy Center for the Global South and the BMW Foundation Leaders Program