Maïmonatou Mar

Maïmonatou Mar, PhD is Co-Founder and COO of Gribouilli, the first vocational organization to support and empower women working as nannies in France and its subsidiary cooperative. Along with her mother Aminata Diouf, a senior nanny, Mar has built a network of more than 1000 women and established partnerships with major public and private stakeholders. Mar believes that bottom-up initiatives and cooperative models have the power to revive democratic and economic governance. She has launched the French Chapter of RadicalxChange where she often applies systems thinking she has learned from her previous experience in STEM. Mar has received multiple recognition for her work on social justice. She is Obama Leader and Board Member of French foundations and think tanks on labour and social innovation.