About
The Podcast
Finding Humanity podcast is a Webby Award winning, top ranked international affairs and human rights documentary-style podcast.
Through real-life stories of courage and purpose, Finding Humanity takes listeners into the heart of the most complex social and political issues facing our world. By bringing you voices from the front lines of war and injustice, we peel back layers that surround today’s massive challenges.
In each episode, host Hazami Barmada puts a human face on a global issue that is overwhelming and difficult to grasp— be it the refugee crisis, climate change, or LGBTQ discrimination. While set in unfamiliar places, Finding Humanity tackles recognizable themes: love, hope, and overcoming personal struggles.
The show weaves in voices of world leaders, global human rights and development experts at the United Nations and leading institutions, while providing listeners with tangible steps to make a difference.
Finding Humanity hopes to inspire the activist in each of us, to create a better tomorrow, today.
Host | Hazami Barmada
Hazami Barmada is an award-winning thought-leader, seasoned global strategy consultant, social innovator, and international public speaker. Hazami advises governments, businesses and organizations on design and implement effective social impact strategy, public-private partnerships, public affairs strategy. Prior to founding the Humanity Lab Foundation, she held several positions at the United Nations, including serving as the Coordinator for the United Nations Secretary General’s World Humanitarian Summit, global engagement and communications head for the UN Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth, and innovation advisor to United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat). Hazami has a Master in Public Administration from Harvard University where she was also a Fellow in Public Policy and Management at The Harvard Kennedy School of Government. She is a Presidential Leadership Scholar and was described in Forbes as an “inspirational change agent”. [Forbes: How This Woman Is Mobilizing Millions Of Global Change Makers]
Produced by
Finding Humanity Podcast is a joint production of the Humanity Lab Foundation and Hueman Group Media. Special episodes produced in collaboration with The Elders.
The Humanity Lab Foundation is an innovative non-profit movement-building organization that harnesses the power of empathy and people to drive social change. The Humanity Lab works to realize the untapped capacity and passion of every-day people to be partners in solving complex global issues. Through the 3 pillars of it’s work (advocacy, education, engagement), the Humanity Lab aims to disrupt the status quo in global development to catalyze sustainable change. By leveraging technology, in partnership with the United Nations Office for Partnerships and the Office of the President of the United Nations General Assembly, the Humanity Lab hosted the first ever virtual Summit during the United Nations General Assembly (Global People’s Summit) with the mission of “democratizing access to conversations that shape the world”.
Hueman Group Media (“HGM”) is an award-winning podcast company for social change. HGM produces impactful and high-caliber podcasts for leading nonprofit organizations, purpose-driven companies and thought leaders, amplifying conversations around today’s most important causes and issues — including gender inequality, climate change and mental health. HGM podcasts cater to diverse, socially conscious and deeply curious audiences. With the power of storytelling and riveting conversations, HGM activates listeners to take action and make a positive impact in their communities.
In collaboration with: The Elders – Founded by Nelson Mandela in 2007, The Elders are an independent group of global leaders working together for peace, justice and human rights. Currently chaired by Mary Robinson, a former President of Ireland and UN Human Rights Commissioner, their vision is of a world where people live in peace, conscious of their common humanity and their shared responsibilities for each other, for the planet and for future generations. They work both publicly and through private diplomacy to engage with global leaders and civil society at all levels to resolve conflict and address its root causes, to challenge injustice, and to promote ethical leadership and good governance. Their key areas of work include Climate Change, Nuclear Non-Proliferation & Disarmament, Conflict, Universal Health Coverage, Access to Justice and Refugee & Migration.
