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Senior Associate, Impact Studio Mahdis Nicokar
Mahdis Nicokar (she/her/hers) is an impact driven practitioner with a background in social innovation and enterprise management supporting social entrepreneurial-led ventures to design, ideate, implement, and scale impactful solutions. She is an experienced facilitator in applications of human-centered design methodology and agile project management who creates space for teams to turn their ideas into clear implementation plans for sustainable solutions. Mahdis has co-designed and implemented Chemonics’ internal Scale Accelerator, providing support to staff as they scale their proven solutions to new contexts and markets.
by Mahdis Nicokar
Chemonics Co-creates Collaboration Space for Young Innovators in the Brazilian Amazon
Brazil is home to close to 60 percent of the Amazon Basin, a vast geographical region in South America that contains the largest tropical rainforest in the world. Brazil’s vast ecosystem is known for its incredible biodiversity and plays a crucial role in regulating the Earth’s climate. The region is at risk of massive environmental…