Raïsa is Associate Director of Community Innovation Fund- Communities Building Youth Futures (CBYF) and a Consulting Director at Tamarack Institute's Learning Center with a focus on Community Innovation & Engagement.

She is a human centered designer, researcher, facilitator and socially engaged artist with experience implementing and co-creating participatory systems strengthening programs in over 20 countries in a variety of sectors and roles supporting the Sustainable Development Goals. In her work, she brings a behavioural sciences lens to support sustainable innovations through experimentation. Her previous roles have often straddled participatory research and co-creation, capacity building of leaders in communities and governments, impact measurement, storytelling, partnership building and knowledge mobilization.