Our people
Karen Lee
Creative Director
Karen is an urban sociologist and cargo-bike eccentric with specialist expertise in place experience measurement, active transport planning and community participation. She founded Solidaria to offer accessible, creative solutions to equity issues in the public realm.
Karen collaborates immersively with clients to help them build their strategies, capabilities and public programs, evaluate their progress, celebrate their success stories, and connect a wider variety of people to richer community creation processes for better places.
Karen combines a cross-disciplinary approach with particular socio-spatial awareness, a profound justice sensitivity and appetite for change, and a background in creating large-scale arts experiences, to help people make places and programs more welcoming, convivial and delightful for everyone.
In addition to specialist training in Planning Cycling Cities (University of Amsterdam); Measuring Public Life (Gehl Institute); the Healthy Streets Framework (UK); Community Engagement and Deliberative Democracy (IAP2), Karen holds a Bachelor of Arts in Community Development and Sustainable Development (Murdoch University) and is completing a Master of Urban and Regional Planning (UWA, 2024).
She is a Global Walkability Network Correspondent and was a non-executive director of Town Team Movement from 2019 to 2022.
Dr Georgia Scott
Associate, Active Mobility for Everyone
Georgia wants everyone to be able to ride their bike to the things in their life with ease. Her work on urban mobility projects and advocacy for cities that meet people's basic needs is founded in a deep appreciation for experiential knowledge and a belief that everyone is an expert in their own life.
Georgia's doctorate (Curtin University) developed a methodology for exploring how people experience riding bikes in cities. Her research background informs her approach to strategy development and asking questions that get to the heart of problems. A major focus for Georgia is creating opportunities for people doing important, world-changing work to come together and extend their impact.
Georgia holds a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Sustainable Development, with a Minor in Environmental Ethics (Murdoch University). She has worked in local and state government in transport, sustainability and conservation roles, and completed training in Community Engagement (IAP2) and the Healthy Streets framework (UK).
Jhumpa Das
Associate, Project Management