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Sarah Glavan

May 13, 2026

11:51
Again, working across healthy, sustainable, and just food systems, could be healthy, sustainable, and just other systems, and science, policy, and society interfaces.
12:02
Exactly.
12:02
So at Convene, our working hypothesis is that effective science, policy, society interfaces... are essential for breakthroughs at scale.
12:11
So if we're talking about the SDGs or, as Amanda mentioned, healthy, sustainable, and just food systems, we believe that deliberate dialogue helps to open up these spaces between these actors.
12:22
But what we often observe is also that science is very good at speaking, but at less comfortable, uh, with listening or reflecting on its own purpose and positionality.
12:33
And science is also most effective when it convenes, when it brokers, and provides guardrails and informs these actional solutions that we are looking for.
12:42
So as conveners, we often come into these spaces to challenge the participants in the room to take a bit of a risk and to consider other people's perspectives.
16:24
Maybe just share a little bit about what you found particular and specific from your point of view about these community-for-action dialogues.

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