Michar Kumalo is the Program Associate for Gateway Zimbabwe which is one of the initiatives under Zim Alliance.  She is also in the first Gateway Zimbabwe Fellowship cohort which is a leadership training to build and sustain healthy communities and reweave the social fabric of Zimbabwe using processes that foster healing, give primacy to local knowledge, awaken personal and collective agency and create new connections. She studied Honours in Sociology at the University of Zimbabwe and was a part of The UbuntuLab Cohort 3. Her passion is facilitating generative conversations that bring unlikely collaborators together using principles of deep democracy and appreciative inquiry to guide co-creative, healthy and sustainable pathways into a better future for all.