Lunch and Learn: Communicating Hope, A Resource For Action

In a time when public debate can feel defined by fear and division, this Interfaith Week, join us to explore how we can tell a different story, one grounded in dignity, justice, and shared hope.

René Cassin invites you to the launch of Communicating Hope: A Resource for Action, a new Hope-Based Communications Guide designed to help faith groups, charities, and campaigners use communications strategically and purposefully to inspire change.

This one-hour online “lunch and learn” will introduce the guide’s six core principles, share practical examples of hope-based messaging in action, and feature a panel of experts and faith leaders discussing how we can all communicate with more courage, connection, and compassion.

The Lunch and Learn will include:

• Launch of the Hope-Based Communications Guide
• Practical insights from IMIX and interfaith communicators
• Collective “Pledges for Hope” to take the learning forward

Join us to build connections across faith and human rights communities and discover how strategic, hope-based communications can be a tool for solidarity and change.

Speakers:

Łucja Jastrzębska is the Communications Manager at René Cassin, where she leads on safe routes and immigration detention work. With a BA in Religion, Philosophy and Ethics from King’s College London and an MA in Human Rights from University College London, she combines a strong grounding in values-based advocacy with a creative approach to storytelling. An actress as well as a campaigner, Łucja brings the art of narrative and empathy into her communications practice, helping to craft messages that connect, humanise, and inspire. She also serves as Amnesty International UK’s Country Coordinator for Central Europe and previously hosted a podcast for the International Women’s Initiative.

Esther Raffell is a professional campaigner, community organiser and communications strategist. Over the last 10 years, she has worked on women’s rights, trade union organising, and currently specialises on work on migration and asylum. In her current role at IMIX, she works full time as a media and comms consultant for migration and asylum charities, with a focus on narrative change. This includes safely connecting journalists with people who have lived experience of migration, supporting charities who want to pitch stories to the press, and providing media training.

Josh Cass provides advisory services to charities and international organisations in the interfaith and education spaces including: Holocaust Memorial Day, Plan4Peace, the Sigmund Sternberg Charitable Foundation, Culham St Gabriel’s, the OSCE/ODIHR, the United Nations Alliance of Civilisations and more. He has a particular interest in and expertise on matters relating to Article 18, Freedom of Religion or Belief (FoRB) on which he has worked for many years. He is regularly invited to contribute to FoRB-related processes, particularly the intersection of FoRB with matters relating to education, dialogue and interfaith processes, by organisations including the FCDO and OSCE/ODIHR.