I am able to speak on a variety of issues with strong visuals if requested from over 15 years of photography practice across over 30 countries of work and having travelled to 50+ countries. My talks weave together systemic realities, community-based co-design and being curiosity driven to make the impact a person wants to make in the world.

Public Talks

Conversation with Feeyeh Neo from INSEP, Catalyzing Impact Across Sectors

My talk on TEDxHarboursideFront in St. John’s on the Art of Engaging Communities 

A session at UNC Water and Health Conference on Careers in WASH

SIWI 2021 Stories beyond Numbers, a conversation about using story based methods as monitoring and evaluation of a systemic program in WASH

A talk for Imagine Canada 2080 at McMaster University on Rural Planetary Futures 

Podcasts

A Hopeful Education for the End of the World as we know it. A conversation with Ginie Servant-Miklos, Will Richardson and Manda Scott on the Future Learning Design Podcast hosted by Tim Logan

Systems Design for Social Change and Life in Newfoundland a conversation with Olivier Girard’s OG’s Smaller World Podcast

Papers 

H₂Open Journal 5 (2), 323–332: Achieving handwashing with Social Art for Behaviour Change: the experience of the Lazos de Agua programme in Latin America, Anna Zisa, Kristina Nilsson, Raisa Mirza and Tania Vachon, https://doi.org/10.2166/h2oj.2022.029 Open Access

Vodden, Kelly and Raisa Mirza. Developing Innovative approaches to Community Engagement. 2012. Access HERE. 

Vodden, Kelly and Raisa Mirza. Engaging Youth for Sustainable Coastal Community Economies. 2012. Access HERE. 

Vodden, Kelly, et al. A Scan of Land use Issues in the Grand-Falls Windsor- Harbour Breton Region. 2012. Access HERE.