Dalai Lama Fellows
Ashira Pelt
Leadership Vision
My leadership approach stems from the understanding that we are all deeply interconnected; my role is simply to be one of the stewards of the flow between connections. I lead by tending to the flow of knowledge, energy, and care between the groups I work with. I uplift the places where this flow is easy and natural and where there is friction, use it as a place to learn and strive for change.
Project Description
Ashira works with the Consensus Building Institute (CBI) dignity and inclusion to mediation and high-level stakes facilitation. Ashira’s projects focus on international development, gender empowerment, human rights, prison reform, climate resilience, land rights, and diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice processes. Her projects have ranged from working on elevating indigenous and afrodescendant voices in land rights negotiations, to collaborating with experts and athletes to create an international safeguarding policies for the International Olympics Committee, to bringing more community engagement into regional climate resilience strategic planning efforts, to advising solar companies in Egypt on best practices for engaging communities with dignity and agency. Through CBI, Ashira works to bring more compassion and trauma-informed practices to the field of alternative dispute resolution.