Project Team

Sona Mahtani

Sona Mahtani is Director of Beyond Just Now, a consultancy, and works in the UK and Europe. She volunteered at the Selby Centre, never realising one day, she would be Chief Executive of The Selby Trust. A transformation of sorts has been achieved over 10 hard years, moving from deficit to strength, ideas to practice and now with projects in heritage, community organising, local economic development and a prospective asset transfer. Sona previously managed community networks, a homelessness training & employment project, and worked in the HIV/AIDS sector. She is now setting up an organic farm, with an art school, a creative retreat and thrives most when talking about food, as well as eating it. She is a Communications graduate and a Post-graduate in Charity Marketing and Fundraising from Cass Business School.

Daniel Fitzpatrick

Daniel finished his PhD in Planning Studies at the Bartlett School of Planning UCL in 2017, investigating mutual housing models in London and their governance. Since then he has been a researcher at the Bartlett looking at formal and informal practices of estate regeneration and collective housing. He continues to research on planning, urban design, housing and governance issues. He has worked in India, Italy, Cuba, Chile, Nepal, and London, working on projects at different scales -from international development to regeneration and within local government.

“Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand.”

“Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth

“Decoloniality is an epistemic, ethical and political project. The world cannot be changed if the people who run the world do not change. And people do not change submitting to public policies and obligations.