Sameer Singh

Sameer Singh is a local community activator with a background in journalism, documentary film-making and business incubation. He has worked with aboriginal communities in Canada and abroad, and in the cultural sector with South Asian communities. He learned how to tackle “wicked” problems during his MBA at the Rotman School of Management, where he co-created the Rotman Design Challenge. He continued as a service designer at Telefonica in Spain and in Alberta at the Banff Centre. Currently, he oversees innovative fundraising practises at the University of Alberta.

SAMEER'S CONTRIBUTION

• Steward the community into, through and out of the “wicked conversations” surrounding racism and poverty

• Develop new ‘cultural design’ frameworks

• Challenge (and be challenged) on how we derive the concepts of racism and poverty in Edmonton today.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/SinghingSam

Sameer Singh
Lab Design and Steward