Nir Tsuk

Nir joined Ashoka after wrapping up his PhD in political science in Cambridge. In his dissertation he looked at two intentional communities - the Israeli Kibbutz and the English Garden City - their love/hate relationship with the state, and the insights that can be drawn from such cases on the dependency of social cohesion and change on the political context, and on state-civil society interplay. His gradual realization that he prefers to 'work with' rather than 'look at' led him to Ashoka. His work on issues of community, solidarity and education led him to the Global Fellowship Program, which engages Ashoka Fellows worldwide in an enabling, creative and synergetic community. Prior to joining Ashoka, Nir was involved in policy research and analysis for the Community Development Foundation in London and for the Committee for Social Affairs in the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem. Earlier in his homeland Israel he was a curriculum developer for formal and informal education at the Rabin Centre and the Israeli national authority for Holocaust remembrance, the editor of a computer magazine, a restaurant manager, the head of his city's student council, a cinema usher, and a street cleaner. He is a compulsive tea drinker, a big admirer of his parents and two brothers and a change-maker wannabe.

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