Nairuti Shastry and Neil McInroy

Nairuti Shastry [she/her(s)] is an educator, strategist, and engaged scholar working toward racial and economic justice that transcends organizational, cultural, and political borders. As a QWoC and an immigrant, the nuances of movement, belonging, and social change have been both a participatory experience and a research question for Nairuti.

Drawing on the strength and resilience born out of these intersecting identities and professional experience spanning several continents, Nairuti leverages Freirean pedagogy and theories of postcolonial racial constructivism, Diaspora, and transracial social change to support movements of antiracist, anticolonial resistance across the United States and beyond.

Neil McInroy is an experienced policy thinker and adviser, researcher, practitioner, and organisational leader.

He is currently the Global Lead for Community Wealth Building at The Democracy Collaborative. Based in USA, TDC are a leading think, do and change tank, working to grow the democratic economy.

He is also Chair of Economic Development Association Scotland (EDAS) – the go to body for all individuals and organisations with an interest in Scotland’s economic development.

Up till July 2023 he was a Community Wealth Building Adviser, within the economic development directorate of the Scottish Government. And was recently appointed by the Scottish Government as Chair of an independent review into growing the democratic economy in Scotland.

For 20 years till 2021, he was the Chief Executive of the Centre for Local Economic Strategies (CLES)- the UK’s national organisation for progressive local economies.

Articles by Nairuti Shastry and Neil McInroy

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