Facilitating dialogue​ - Step into another person’s shoes. Own their stories. Listen deeply.

During the 2016 US presidential election while studying as a Rotary Peace Fellow at Duke/UNC Peace Center Linda Low founded a program convening diverse voices in facilitated dialogue to reduce polarization. Through techniques – such as Third-to-First Person and Circle – participants are invited to step into another person’s shoes, own their stories, listen deeply, and reciprocate with honest discourse. The program has grown to serve communities in diverse ways, at first focused on conflict transformation, now also fostering community engagement and accountability.

Linda served with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) from 2010 to 2016. She was the IFRC’s Communications Manager for Europe leading the organization’s communications efforts on the migration crisis. Prior to this post, she served the IFRC in Geneva for five years on the global communications team.

Prior to joining the Red Cross, Linda was Associate Director of Corporate Communications for Bell Canada where she led corporate communications in Western Canada. As Manager of International Relations, she was part of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Bid.

Linda was featured in the Rotary magazine https://www.rotary.org/en/migration-challenges-inspire-rotary-peace-scholar  and was a keynote speaker at the Rotary Presidential Peace Conference in 2018 in Vancouver.