Our Origin

GlobalMargins was founded by Dr. Ndidi Nwaneri after witnessing how the most transformative insights about global challenges consistently come from voices excluded from power. Throughout her international career spanning academic institutions and grassroots initiatives, she observed the critical disconnect between policy decisions and lived realities.

Our Name

Global reflects challenges transcending borders—climate change, inequality, health crises, and governance failures requiring collective action.

Margins represents the peripheries where innovative thinking emerges—geographically in the Global South and structurally in communities marginalized by existing power arrangements.

Why Now?

In today’s world of accelerating crises, excluding marginalized perspectives is no longer merely unjust—it’s dangerously counterproductive:

• Critical knowledge gap: Western frameworks consistently fail to capture complex Global South realities, where communities bear the heaviest burden of global challenges while having minimal input into solutions
• Systemic failure: Conventional approaches perpetuate inequities rather than resolving root causes
• Missed innovation: The most innovative solutions often emerge from those navigating the greatest constraints
• Moral imperative: Ethical leadership demands inclusive approaches that honor diverse knowledge systems

Our Approach

GlobalMargins bridges these dangerous gaps through:

• Connecting diverse methodologies to generate innovative solutions
• Confronting global inequity through decolonized analysis
• Translating complex concepts into actionable strategies
• Facilitating strategic collaborations across sectors and geographies
• Building a community of change-makers committed to systemic transformation

As global challenges intensify, the cost of ignoring marginalized perspectives becomes increasingly devastating. GlobalMargins ensures that knowledge essential to our collective survival no longer remains at the margins.