The Global Alliance for SEL and Life Skills

Our Purpose

Karanga, Māori for "a call out in welcome", is the Global Alliance for Social Emotional Learning and Life Skills. 

The Alliance was developed out of a series of social and emotional learning sessions in 2018/19 in Salzburg Global's Education for Tomorrow’s World program.

Karanga’s mission is to inspire and equip practitioners, policy makers and researchers from across the world to promote quality and equitable Social Emotional Learning and Life Skills through initiatives that connect, coordinate, and drive action.

The network continues to meet online every first Tuesday of the month. 


SEL Global Leadership Series

The Social and Emotional Learning Global Leadership series was a collaboration between Salzburg Global, Karanga, and Knowledgehook that brought together leading thinkers, practitioners and change-makers each month to talk about innovative work they are doing around social and emotional learning.


Latest Insights

Education Feature
Why Climate Policy Must Not Only Focus on Greenhouse Gases
Since her youth, Melina Sakiyama has been committed to nature and biodiversity in her native Brazil – and she warns that the climate debate focuses too much on carbon dioxide instead of what truly sustains our ecosystems
Dec 16, 2025
Education Opinion
Impressions: A Principle for Salzburg
Salzburg Global Fellow Rowan Fear reflects on "seeking to be impressed upon" during his time at the Salzburg Academy for Media and Global Change
Dec 08, 2025
Education Feature
Reimagining Education Access
How Hammed Kayode Alabi is Transforming Education Through Technology
Dec 01, 2025
Education Statement
The Salzburg Statement on Nature-Based Education
Salzburg Global Fellows have developed a roadmap for embedding nature into education systems
Nov 18, 2025
Education Opinion
Reconnecting Education and Earth: A Policy Pathway To Nature-Based Education
Salzburg Global Fellow Kathryn Scott believes it’s time to reconnect classrooms with the natural world - and use behavior change theory to make it happen
Nov 07, 2025
Education Update
Building Community Through Stories
Longtime faculty member Sanjeev Chatterjee held the annual Bailey Morris-Eck Lecture at the 19th Salzburg Academy on Media and Global Change
Oct 20, 2025
Education Update
How Can Academics Center Africa? Start By Reading African Scholarship
Everyone can be more intentional about reading, citing, and assigning scholarship about Africa and by African scholars
Sep 11, 2025
Education Update
Salzburg Academy on Media and Global Change Examines Local Media and Democratic Health
19th Media Academy enables young creative minds to reinvent local media with compassion, care, and community 
Aug 21, 2025
Education Update
16 Lessons From 16 Days at the Media Academy
Salzburg Global Fellow Madeline Waltman reflects on lessons learned about herself and others during the Salzburg Academy on Media and Global Change
Apr 24, 2025

Network

Bassem Nasir
Education Specialist for Skills, Programme Division, Gender Equality, Adolescence and Skills for Employability, UNICEF, USA
Carlota Nelson
Documentary Filmmaker, Spain
Carolina Escobar-Tello
Schools and Education Lead, Doughnut Economics Action Lab (DEAL), Portugal
Ayelet Giladi
Founder and Director of Voice of Child Association (VOCA), Israel
Charlie Gabriel
Program Coordinator, Department of Education, Australia
Jean Clinton
Clinical Professor, McMaster University Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, Canada
Olena Orzhel
Researcher, Institute of Higher Education of the National Academy of Educational Sciences
Daniela Labra Cardero
Co-Founder, Atentamente
Jayant Rastogi
Global CEO, Magic Bus India Foundation, India
Paolo Nardi
Executive Director, EfVET, Belgium
Doina Grigoras
Project Manager, Verita Foundation, Romania
Dominic Regester
Director, Education
Ed Kirwan
CEO and Founder, Empathy Week, United Kingdom
Mohammed Elmeski
Clinical Associate Professor, Arizona State University
Chiedu Eseadi
Francine Kliemann
Director, Plato Cultural, Brazil
Giancarlo Brotto
Global Education Strategist; Founding Partner, Catalyst, Canada
Gil Chadash
Head of Education Department, Sderot Municipality, Israel
Gili Leibushor
Executive Director, Orcha Initiative, Israel
Grace Ngugi Maina
Deputy Director, Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development, Kenya
Henry May
CEO, Coschool, Colombia
Heather Singmaster
Director of Global Cities Education Network, Digital Promise Global, USA
Tomoko Imai
Director of Education Strategy, OECD SSES National Project Manager, Jiyugaoka Gakuen High School, Japan
Jennifer Adams
Chair of the Board of Governors, University of Ottawa, Canada
Jan Frolic
Co-Founder, Captains & Poets, Canada
Jigyasa Labroo
Co-Founder/CEO, Slam Out Loud, Dharamshala, India
Jennifer Johnson
Co-Founder, Captains & Poets, Canada
Stephanie Jones
Professor & Director, EASEL Lab at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, USA
Joysy John
Computer Science Consultant, Parliment Hill School, UK
Jessica Williams
Senior Policy Associate, J-PAL Global
Karen Niemi
President and CEO, CASEL: The Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning, USA
Kavita Anand
Founder Director, Adhyayan Quality Education Services, India
Karen Edge
Academic, University College London, United Kingdom
Kim Normand Dobrin
Founder and CEO, Tolerance Foundation, South Africa
Frank Kiyingi
Executive Director, Advocacy for Child Relief, Uganda
Leslee Udwin
Founder and President, Think Equal, UK
Louka Parry
Executive Committee Member, Karanga: The Global Alliance for SEL and Life Skills, Australia
Luca Calligaro
Head of Internationalisation, ENAC Ente Nazionale Canossiano (ENAC ETS), Italy
Manjula Dissanayake
Founder, Educate Lanka, United States/Sri Lanka
Marc Brackett
Director, Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, USA
Maria Fernandez Sabau
Director of Education and Public Programs, Strategy and Alliances, SEL, Madrid, Spain
Marius Luca
Program Coordinator, Verita Foundation, Romania
Marjo Kyllönen
Development Service Director, Helsinki Education Division, Helsinki
Mark Sparvell
Senior Education Leader, Microsoft, USA
Catherine Millett
Director of the ETS Global Academy, Senior Research Scientist and Strategic Advisor, ETS, USA
M Natalia Marin
PhD Student - Graduate research assistant, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia
Neeru Mulhotra
Chief Operating Officer, Pravah, India
Nicholas Carlisle
CEO and Founder, No Bully, USA
Nishant Singh
Fulbright Scholar, Harvard University, USA
Nishtha Kapoor
Knowledge Manager, Adhyayan Quality Education Foundation, India
Noémie Le Donné
Senior Project Manager, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Paris
Patricia Vazquez
CEO, Mexicanos Primero, Mexico
Patrick Newell
Founding Director, Tokyo International School, Japan
Pedro Cunha
Senior Manager, Gulbenkian Foundation, Portugal
Radha Ruparell
Head of Global Leadership Accelerator, Teach For All, USA
Rakishma M
Rakishma M, Associate Director, Impact, Slam Out Loud, India
Rena Deitz
Technical Advisor, Education, International Rescue Committee, USA
Richa Gupta
Co-Founder and CEO, Labhya, India
Rohit Kumar
CEO, Apni Shala Foundation, India
Romana Shaikh
Chief Program Officer, Kizazi, India
Ryder Delaloye
Associate Director for Social, Emotional, and Ethical (SEE) Learning, SEE Learning, United States of America
Sonal Chheda
National Project Officer - Policy, UNESCO MGIEP, India
Scherto Gill
Director of Global Humanity for Peace Institute, University of Wales Trinity St David, United Kingdom
Shelby Clark
Principal Investigator, Harvard Project Zero, USA
Shilpi Sharma
COO, OSCAR Foundation, India
Stephanie Zantingh
Stephanie Zantingh, Educational Leader, Canada
Sofia Frech
Educational Advisor, Reintegra, Mexico
Subhankar Paul
Co-founder and Director, The Unifly Collective, India
Subindra Bogati
Founder & CEO, Nepal Peacebuilding Initiative, Nepal
Sue Roffey
Honorary A, Professor, Director, University College, London / Growing Great Schools Worldwide, United Kingdom
Supriya Iyengar
Chief Narrative Strategist, Shiksharth, India
Suraj Moraje
Founder, The Eka Fellowship, India
Tania Tania
Context Facilitator, Dream a Dream, India
Sangitha Krishnamurthi
Co-Founder and Director, The Teachers Collective, India
Timothy Onyango Otuoma
Director, Mindful African Initiative, Kenya
Tom Ravenscroft
Founder and CEO, Skills Builder Partnership, United Kingdom
Valeriia Chernysh
Program Manager, Education
Vikram Ghandeeswaran Narayanan
Business Development Coordinator, Think Equal, India
Vimal Jat
Co-founder and CEO, Synergy Sansthan, India
Vishal Talreja
Co-Founder & Trustee, Dream a Dream, India
Vicki Zakrzewski
Education Director, Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley, USA
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