Ikran Mahad, founder of Rights and Minds, wins the Ashoka Nordic Young Changemaker Award 2025 for her bold work making journalism accessible and inclusive across languages, borders, and abilities.
Creating successful and unique partnerships to enable impact
We believe that collaboration is key to solve complex challenges and achieve change. Therefore, we work closely together with various organizations across different specializations to accomplish that.
Ashoka recognizes that it cannot possibly source the world’s leading Changemakers on its own. Do you know - or are you yourself - someone with a path-breaking new idea who is approaching problem-solving in an entrepreneurial and creative way?
Joining the Ashoka Fellowship was an opportunity for us to connect with the community of Ashoka team members, advisors, fellows, etc. being able to understand more in-depth what it means to bring systems change.
Rustam Nabiev
Ashoka Nordic Fellow and founder of Shifo Foundation
I think Ashoka is a fantastic platform for networking and a catalyst for systems change.
Annika Pärson
ASN member and Chair of Young Solidarity Foundation
Ashoka's Fellowship program is a really unique resource and society platform that thinks more about exponential approaches to scaling, providing a really helpful framework for doing exactly that together with a cohort of experts from the field of social innovation.
Sascha Haselmayer
Ashoka Nordic Fellow and Founder of Citymart
Forbes knows that the story is change. No one sees that more clearly than Ashoka. It has an extraordinary ability both to envision the big, new patterns and to engineer their emergence.
Forbes
I truly believe in collaboration, across sectors, across organizations and among people with different ideas and approaches. An open mind and passion for change are both crucial ingredients towards real collaboration and this has been evident across my interactions with Ashoka’s network.
Jennie Perzon
ASN member and Mistra Center for Sustainable Markets, Stockholm School of Economics
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