Co-Founder
Civic Wellbeing Partners
Julie pioneered development of the nation’s first local wellbeing index – a data driven metric of community, social, educational, physical/emotional and economic health – for a total picture that goes beyond the narrow and traditional measure of GDP. Julie co-founded Civic Wellbeing Partners to advance this work for national and global scaling. She has published on wellbeing with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and is a Senior Fellow with UCLA’s Center for Healthier Children, Families, and Communities. As Chair of the Santa Monica Bay Human Relations Council, she continues to lead local wellbeing and equity work.
Co-Founder
Civic Wellbeing Partners
As co-founder of Civic Wellbeing Partners, Catalina advances leadership for community wellbeing through local action, use of data, and partnerships. She developed the Wellbeing Microgrant Program and joins with others to create an equitable global society as a Fellow of the Schumacher Institute. Catalina received her B.A. from the University of California Santa Barbara.
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Co-Director | Co-Founder
Institute for Collective Wellbeing
Rebecca Paradiso de Sayu is co-founder | co-director of The Institute for Collective Wellbeing, president of Explore, Create, Evaluate Partners, and president of The Purposeful PhD. Her leadership is characterized by a reverence for collective understanding, which has served her well in navigating cross-sector partnerships. Rebecca received her PhD and master’s degree in social welfare at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.
Co-Director | Co-Founder
Institute for Collective Wellbeing
Stephan brings his diverse experience in social and racial equity, ecological sustainability, organizational change, and community and leadership development to his collective wellbeing work. Previous roles include: director and faculty in Social Innovation and Sustainability Leadership and assistant vice chancellor for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.
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The Mapping Collective Wellbeing Project team partnered closely with Schema Design to create this interactive website, based on findings from our qualitative interview data. The intention of the site is to be a tool in providing an ongoing systems perspective to advance the collective wellbeing movement. Linda Vakunta was also a collaborator on the project, hosting the case story interviews.
The Mapping Collective Wellbeing Project was supported by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to better understand the wellbeing ecosystem in the United States, with learnings from initiatives from around the world. The views expressed here do not necessarily reflect the views of the Foundation.