Solutions Insights Lab combines a framework for investigating what's working with a proven methodology for shaping narratives and fostering learning communities
With changemakers across geographies and sectors
Where the changemakers work
Event participants and website visitors
Since 2023, Solutions Insights Lab has catalyzed action through insights that emerge from deep interviews — connecting people, supporting and fostering communities, and creating the conditions for sector-wide change.
Our approach centers on surfacing knowledge that exists only in the heads of the people doing the work and the communities they work with, and distilling what we hear into insights that help the field move forward.
We work with a global network of trained solutions journalists spanning Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas. That independence from any single field lets us move across ecosystems as trusted connectors — bringing together practitioners, funders, and policymakers who need to learn from each other.
We bridge the gap between lived experience and formal research, generating actionable insights that help organizations make sharper decisions, faster, with findings intended to be used. We're independent by design and direct by nature.
Most importantly, we don't just study your ecosystem — we help strengthen it, creating the conditions for connection and collective action. We help you learn from what’s working, surface patterns across a system, and turn them into action, then carry those insights outward through insight-driven products and convenings that people want to be a part of.
Leads the Solutions Insights Lab, applying two decades of storytelling and social-impact work to help organizations connect people and drive sector-wide change. She holds an MFA in film from Columbia and has spoken at the Skoll World Forum and the United Nations.
Oversees operations and knowledge systems across the Lab's research portfolio. An international development practitioner and social scientist whose research has appeared in Nature Human Behaviour and The Lancet.
Leads research and data analysis to surface trends and insights across the Lab's work. Holds a Ph.D. in sociology from Northwestern, focused on social movements and change.
Lead interviewer and editor for the Lab. Author of "I Am on the Hit List," a 2024 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction.
Designs and coordinates research systems to understand how the Lab's projects drive community-level change, with a background in peacebuilding and participatory research.
Builds and manages the Lab's websites, technical infrastructure, and data systems. Holds a master's in international affairs from Columbia, specializing in technology and media.
Manages organizational data and content across the Lab's data management systems, ensuring accuracy and consistency.
Former chief of strategic relations at the Solutions Journalism Network, now a strategic and writing partner to the Lab. Founder of Wise Giving and former chief development officer at The Center for Investigative Reporting.
Senior editor for special coverage at Devex, the global development media platform. Believes in storytelling's power to elevate what's working in response to global challenges.
Creative director of r.studio.t, bringing 30+ years of experience in graphic and audience-engagement design.
Argentina-based journalist and accredited solutions journalism trainer, leading Health Care Without Harm's Latin America and Caribbean team.
Television journalist with CNN, BBC, and Al Jazeera experience; led Solutions Journalism Network's broadcast initiatives and has trained journalists in two dozen countries.
Two-time Fulbright-Nehru Scholar and former Solutions Journalism Network program director; certified leadership coach based in Bengaluru, India.
Independent journalist and communications strategist covering health and social impact, published in Fast Company and beyond.
Brazilian journalist and co-founder of Agência Mural de Jornalismo das Periferias; co-author of "Unbias the News."
Journalism trainer and founder of Inclusive Journalism, focused on media representation and decolonization.
Designer and creative technologist translating complex ideas into inviting, human-centered digital experiences.
Are you part of the Solutions Journalism Network?
Solutions Insights Lab is an initiative of the Solutions Journalism Network (SJN). We operate with a high degree of independence — our own methodology, team, and client relationships — while drawing on SJN's infrastructure and network of trained solutions journalists.
How do you customize projects to our needs?
Every partnership starts with conversations, not a fixed template. From there, we combine the right mix of research, community-building, storytelling, and events based on what your work actually needs.
Do you specialize in a particular sector?
No, and that's deliberate. Our independence from any single field lets us move across ecosystems as trusted connectors, bringing outside perspectives to sectors from climate to health to child protection.'
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