Vasna Ramasar was born and raised in South Africa. She has 10 years research, activism, consulting and teaching experience across southern and eastern Africa, Asia, Europe and North America. She supports a resistance to the unsustainable hegemonic system and the creation of radical alternatives. Vasna Ramasar is a core group member of the Global Tapestry of Alternatives and the Post-Development Academic-Activist Group, PEDAGOG. She is also facilitating Adelante: a dialogue of 8 global processes for systemic change and is on the steering group for Women Against Destructive Extractivism in Africa (WoMin). She is also a founding member of the Collective Against Environmental Racism and a coordinator of the Anticolonial Academy, a network at Lund University, research fellow of the Earth System Governance project and a member of the conceptual taskforces on Planetary Justice and ESG Teaching. She is the chair of the South Africa-Sweden University Forum theme on social transformations. She is currently an Associate Senior Lecturer in the Division of Human Ecology, Department of Human Geography and a Research affiliate at the Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS) in Sweden. globaltapestryofalternatives.org