Sifaan Zavahir

Sifaan Zavahir managed to keep-alive into adulthood a common childhood skill that is often suppressed: insatiably asking discomfiting questions. That process took him through programming, engineering, leadership development for corporates to, eventually, education, where he identifies as a Dehegemonizer: in Sri Lanka at Kinder Republic, a Democratic School he co-founded in 2021, and internationally via Rights-Centric Education. He is also working on a new “operating system” for education where communities are learning “with” each other (instead of “from” experts) based on abundance, consent and trust.