Being Bridges is a newly formed social enterprise birthed from a real and ever-present need for developing cohesion out of diversity. Our specialties span various backgrounds of research and practice essential to faith and secular community-building. Ifthenhow has facilitated dialogues, trained communities from various sectors of society, and consulted on a range of projects with a lens towards diversity. Now as their newly combined work and expertise begins to grow, they hope to explore and cater more of such offerings to the specific needs of local communities, work places, and members of the public.
BASIL KANNANGARA
FOUNDER, BEING BRIDGES
About the Founder
Basil is an award-winning innovator and facilitator in the work of diversity, dialogue, and discrimination. Focused on interfaith and interracial issues, he is the founder of Being Bridges, a social enterprise developing creative tools and processes for community conversations around cultures, religions, and ethnicities.
Also the co-editor of Being Beings, a community newsletter leveraging on shared stories to build a more versatile diversity, Basil is currently working on Being Community, a social media project facilitating powerful and timely conversations on racial and religious discrimination.
