Lawil Karama is a conceptual artist and Program Officer at the Interledger Foundation, where she manages the Interledger Fellowship and Call for Papers program. Her artistic practice spans installation, sculpture, and computational archival art, using memorial reconstruction and the narratives of marginalized communities as forms of political intervention.

Ambassador Project

In 2022, before joining Interledger Foundation, she was a Grant for the Web Ambassador (now named the Interledger Fellowship program), Lawil worked to connect the Web Monetization movement with fringe communities and niche creative spaces across Europe.

Her work focused on expanding access for underrepresented voices, supporting prospective grantees with grant writing, and strengthening community engagement to broaden the geographic and cultural reach of the grant programs.

What Inspired Her Work

"My path to digital financial inclusion began with a simple observation: the systems that govern access to resources have never been neutral."

Through her work with diaspora communities and marginalized voices, she saw how financial exclusion often compounded other forms of social and cultural marginalization. This led her to explore how open financial infrastructure could help shift who benefits from the web.

Vision for the Future

"Financial inclusion will only be meaningful if the infrastructure underlying it is open, interoperable, and built with input from the communities it aims to serve."

Her work centers on ensuring that communities most affected by financial exclusion are included in shaping the technologies and systems intended to support them.

Read her contributions

https://community.interledger.org/lwlkarama/africa-in-colors-summit-3eh5

https://community.interledger.org/lwlkarama/the-art-of-reflection-2hoa