Samantha Sainsbury

Samantha currently trains, facilitates, and supports administration and operation at Collaborative Connections, a Chicago-based non-profit that supports groups to create new ways of working together and plan for their future through facilitation, training, and participatory design. Her key multi-year projects in Chicago include managing a cross-community education project to develop culturally-specific energy messages with partners in three communities, engaging residents in the Uptown community in a planning process around sustainability as well as coastal education, and organizing and facilitating cross-community partnership within a grassroots sustainability network. She previously served as Treasurer of the Institute of Cultural Affairs International Board from 2019-2021 and holds a Bachelors of Arts in Sociology and Gender and Sexuality Studies from Northwestern University.