About me
Katia Lukicheva is a systems strategist working at the intersection of civil society, philanthropy, and emerging technologies to rethink how we fund, govern, and sustain public goods. She brings two decades of experience across grassroots activism and civil society movements, policy design, global philanthropy, and financing institutions — shaping advocacy, developing funding strategies, and enabling movement-led change.
Throughout her work, she has challenged how power, politics, and money shape access to and delivery of public goods. She has built ecosystems of actors to expose and resist harmful funding practices, demand accountability, and develop alternative approaches that push for more equitable resource allocation.
Today, Katia leads Decoland, a strategic design lab exploring how responsible digital innovation — including Web3, blockchain, and digital public goods — can enable plural, ethical, and community-aligned models for civil society finance. She is developing the Civic Resilience Stack, a systems framework that helps civil society and tech ecosystems map how governance, identity, capital, and assets can work together to support communities as co-stewards of resilient infrastructure.
She also leads CivicChain, an initiative prototyping bridges between civil society and emerging tech through capacity building, strategic learning, and pilot development. Through CivicChain, she is co-developing pilots with funders and civic actors to test new governance structures, unlock mission-aligned capital, and create practical onramps between Web2 and Web3 ecosystems.
Katia specializes in designing ecosystem strategies and enabling environments where funders, technologists, and civic actors can collaborate to explore, co-create, and pilot real-world solutions. From funding flows and governance models to narrative tools and interoperability infrastructure, she assembles the partnerships, mechanisms, and shared frameworks that turn cross-sector ambition into community-led action.
