Your passport determines where you can live, work, and travel—based purely on where you were born. The document is only 100 years old, and someone’s actually redesigning it from the root up. Lauren Razavi is working with tech companies and Web3, UN, and governments worldwide to build alternatives to the passport, and in this conversation, she reveals how it’s happening.

Lauren is the Executive Director of Plumia, a global network rethinking migration, citizenship, and borders for the 21st century.

Lauren is also the author of a book called Global Natives about the digital nomad subculture and the rise of borderless work, and she writes the Substack newsletter Borderless. She is an investor in new media platforms, and has her finger on the pulse of one of the most fast-growing cultures changing our relationship with work and place.

Why you should listen

• Learn about Lauren’s Plumia vision for the future of mobility and identity and how she’s actually building a re-designed passport from the ground up.

• Put you finger on the pulse of the future trends of digital nomadism, travel, digital culture, and how you can actively engage with these movements.

• Hear Lauren's experience bridge building between cutting edge tech & nomad movements and national governments, trying to create something fundamentally new.

Chapters

00:45 Passport Discrimination

06:42 Experiencing Inequality as a Digital Nomad

11:26 Bridging Old and New Systems

17:40 Communicating Across Cultures

25:03 Engaging with Ascending Nations

29:14 Building a New Digital Nomad Identity

29:14 The Genesis of Plumia

35:21 Plumia’s Ongoing Initiatives

41:08 Rethinking Citizenship and Identity

46:13 The Future of Governance and Community Engagement

Connect with Lauren

• Borderless Substack

• Lauren’s website

• Plumia

• Global Natives