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Connecting Refugees: Falling Walls Breakthrough Conversation with Aline Sara

Aline Sara, Aline Luckgen

2022 Breakthrough Conversations Science Breakthrough of the Year

Due to technical problems, this falling walls breakthrough conversation could not be recorded in full.

In this Falling Walls Breakthrough Conversation, digital participants had the chance to engage in a live conversation with Aline Sara, Falling Walls Science Breakthrough of the Year 2022 in the category of Future Learning. She talked about her role as co-founder and CEO of NaTakallam, an award-winning social enterprise that is connecting refugees through hiring displaced persons and their host community members as online tutors, teachers, and translators.

The interview series provided an intimate personal atmosphere, in which high-level guests, speakers and panelists of the Falling Walls Science Summit 2022 talked about their individual research, career paths and experiences.

The Falling Walls Breakthrough Conversations are supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research and Springer Nature.

Aline Sara

NaTakallam

Aline Sara is the co-founder and CEO of NaTakallam, an award-winning social enterprise that hires displaced persons and their host community members as online tutors, teachers, and translators. With a background in journalism and human rights, Sara is working to disrupt the ways in which we typically think of humanitarian aid and leverage the digital economy to promote sustainable solutions to major crises such as forced migration.

Under Sara’s leadership, NaTakallam has distributed $1,700,000+ in self-earned income to conflict-affected populations by connecting them to 12,000+ learners and dozens of organizational clients, worldwide. Sara is a Cartier Women’s Initiative, Summit & Halcyon fellow and has been a speaker at numerous high-level events, including TechCrunch Berlin & several OECD, UN, and World Bank conferences. She is a passionate advocate for human and women’s rights and intercultural exchange.

 

Aline Luckgen

Springer Nature

Aline obtained her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in bioengineering at Rice University in the USA and at the EPFL in Switzerland, respectively, completing short research internships in India, France and Japan during her studies. She completed her PhD at the Technical University in Berlin, where she investigated the degradation behavior of alginate-based hydrogels. Aline joined the Biotechnology team at Nature Communications in June 2020, where she now handles manuscripts in the areas of bioengineering and biomaterials.

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