Our story

Nasim M. Fluker has been a trusted advisor and engagement strategist for mission-based organizations for over fifteen years. She is an experienced change agent who orchestrates strategy, builds operating platforms, and enables talent alignment, engagement and high performance by harnessing the power of people, purpose and opportunity. Her commitment to high-functioning and transformational communities has guided her professional trajectory that has included experience in international development, applied sociology, and neighborhood revitalization. She brings the unique mix of expertise in developing the socio-cultural, physical, and political infrastructure needed for community building. 

She has previously served as the deputy director of the All We Can Save Project, an organization focused on growing and nurturing climate leadership across sectors. Prior to founding Thrdspace, Nasim was the Director of Programs and Operations at the Westside Future Fund, a Georgia non-profit targeting community revitalization of Atlanta’s Westside. During its development and start-up phase, she provided programmatic and administrative leadership to promote and expand public-private partnerships, formed alliances with private business owners, resident groups, philanthropic leaders, and City of Atlanta agencies to create broad-based community engagement tools including the Transform Westside Summit and the Atlanta Community Engagement Playbook. Prior to her work at the Westside Future Fund, Nasim was the Program Manager at the Atlanta Committee for Progress, a partnership between Atlanta’s top business, civic and academic leaders, and the Mayor to support economic development priorities, public-private partnerships and community development initiatives.

Nasim is a graduate of Lead Atlanta (2016), Arts Leaders of Metro Atlanta (2018), and a member of the Atlanta Civic Collaboratory. She serves on the Board of Directors for the Historic District Development Corporation. She is an active member of the Baha’i Community of Atlanta. In her free time, Nasim and her husband Clint facilitate a dynamic community of thinkers, doers, and dreamers through their monthly salon series. They live in Smyrna, Georgia with their two children, Zayn and Niloufar. 

Nasim holds a Master’s degree and coursework toward a Ph.D. in Sociology from Georgia State University and a Bachelor’s degree in International Development from American University.