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Namra Khalid
Hailing from Pakistan, a country routinely battered by extreme climate events and collapse of public systems, Namra Khalid works with grassroots communities to co-build geo-social humanitarian tools that reclaim voice, space, and mobility.
After receiving The World Around’s inaugural Young Climate Visionary Prize, she founded a non-profit, Community Climate Design. Its two flagship initiatives are Karachi Cartography, which recovers lost spatial data to reimagine lasting urban solutions; and AafatInfo, a real-time disaster platform that gathers and sorts citizen reports and social media into a live map of on-ground flood, heatwave, and smog conditions.
Her work confronts the digital divide by centering those most affected yet least connected, developing tools that remain accessible with or without internet access. She is currently building the world’s first phone-call based humanitarian disaster AI assistant for the Global South.
“The World Around was the first space that saw my work not as a local response to a crisis, but as part of a global conversation about design, justice, and survival. It reminded me that what we build—especially in places like Pakistan—is not just about fixing what’s broken, but imagining what’s possible. Being in this community makes the future feel less isolated, and more collective. That gives me hope.”
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