Contribuyentes 2023 - Conferencia Reimaginar la Educación

en colaboración con la alianza de ecoversidades

Colaboradorxs

Adam Oosthuizen

Adam is a product manager, immersive media designer, researcher and editor from South Africa. He has recently worked on a book with the Transition Resource Circle about leveraging philanthropic capital towards mitigating the effects of the global ecological, social and political crisis. He assists Culture Hack Labs in coordinating the production of data and publishing tools for activist organizations. He is also a member of the New Economic Thinking group as part of the 2022-23 CHL Rhizome Fellowship. Adam holds a B.A in Philosophy and Film & Media Studies from the University of Cape Town.

Alessandra Pomarico

Alessandra Pomarico is an independent curator, researcher and educator working at the intersection of arts, pedagogy, and community. Co-founder of Free Home University an artistic and pedagogical experiment on sharing knowledge by living in common, the trans-local Ecoversities Alliance, Alessandra’s research currently focuses on ecology of knowledge, care, and relational epistemologies. Recent projects include firefly frequencies radio, M.E.D.U.S.E (Mediterranean Ecofeminist, Decolonial Union for Self-Education) the School of the We, The New Alphabet School #Commoning and #Healing. Editor at artseverywhere, she curated the volume Pedagogies Otherwise (Ecoversities Publications, 2018), co-edited What’s there to learn (Publication Studio Guelph, 2018) and When the Roots Start Moving: Resonating with Zapatismo (Archive Books 2021)

Andrea González Andino

Andre is a Relational artist, Chix'i, Andean, cuir, mountaineer, and climber. In recent years, Andre has worked with global communities related to issues of alternatives to hhiger education and life. Andre also works with the Ecoversities network and Re-imagining Education conference on cultural, social, and educational regeneration. Student of the Escuelita del Amor where the teacher is Ayahuasca, grandmother of the Amazon. Part of the project Following Andean Footsteps, learning with mountains, rocks, and with the pedagogy of Circuits of learning, where the objective is to come back to see ourselves to walk towards our dreams.

Ángel Ramírez

Angel Ramirez, belongs to the Palta culture of the province of Loja, Ecuadorian writer, is a bilingual intercultural educator and is currently a member of the Management Commission of the Intercultural University of Nationalities and Indigenous Peoples Amwtay Wasi. President of the Guanchuro Intercultural Foundation of Ecuador. He attended primary school in Catacocha and Loja, his secondary studies at the Salesian Orientalist School in the city of Cuenca; higher education at the Catholic University of Quito. D. in Educational Sciences and Master in Curriculum and is currently pursuing his PhD at the Benito Juarez University of Puebla-Mexico. He speaks Kichwa, Spanish and German.

Andrés Fonseca

Artista transdisciplinario, investigador y profesor. Magíster en Educación de la Universidad Pedagógica Nacional. Entre sus campos de interés se destacan la educación integral, las artes visuales, la radio, los proyectos ciudadanos, la educación artística y la apropiación creativa de las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación. Actualmente es profesor del curso didácticas para la paz y la convivencia en la Maestría en Docencia mediada con Tics en la Universidad de San Buenaventura y también ha estado vinculado como profesor e investigador en diversas Universidades de Colombia. Sus últimos proyectos son "La Universidad del Futuro", una red ciudadana global de educación superior, proyectos audiovisuales sobre músicas afrocaribeñas y diferentes podcast respecto a educación, los objetivos de desarrollo interior, la espiritualidad, el arte y la ciudadanía.

Ashik Krishnan

Ashik Krishnan is a traveller, venture socialist, and weaver of people, communities and stories. Ashik is the co-creator of Travellers' University, an organisation that facilitates individuals to deepen their knowledge and understanding of themselves and the world by offering experiential learning opportunities through slow and conscious travel. At Travellers' University, Ashik designs and facilitates various travel-based learning programmes oriented towards imagining an inclusive and just world. He also leads the knowledge curation vertical in the organisation, documenting and publishing books and content.

Beverly Bravo

Beverly Bravo is one of the convenors of HIRAYA Collective for the Blind. She's an instructor, researcher, and a disability rights advocate focusing on technology and digital accessibility. She teaches fundamentals of ICT and Web Technologies to first year and second year college students at the Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Muntinlupa. She volunteers as a researcher at User Experience Philippines to know more about the field closest to accessibility and universal design. As a disabled person herself, she advocates for digital accessibility through speaking to different organizations and communities about the impact of accessibility on the digital space. Together with her fellow blind friends, she also manages a YouTube channel called Visually Impaired’s Fashion and Lifestyle (VIFAL), where they produce fun and engaging videos to spread awareness within and beyond the disabled community.

Catherine Hoppers

Professor Hoppers is a scholar and policy specialist on International Development, education, North-South questions, disarmament, peace, and human security. She is a UNESCO expert in basic education, lifelong learning, information systems and on Science and Society; an expert in disarmament at the UN Department of Disarmament Affairs; an expert to the World Economic Forum on benefit sharing and value addition protocols; and the World Intellectual Property Organisation on traditional knowledge and community intellectual property rights.

Daniel Christian Wahl

Daniel is an international consultant and educator specialising in biologically-inspired whole systems design and transformative innovation. He is a biologist (University of Edinburgh and University of California), holds an MSc in Holistic Science (Schumacher College) and a PhD in Design (CSND, University of Dundee, 2006). Daniel currently works for Gaia Education and the SMART UIB project of the Universidad de las Islas Balears. Triarchy Press published his first book, Designing Regenerative Cultures, in 2016.

Darío

My name is Darío, I am 21 years old and since I was 11 years old I knew I wanted to dedicate myself to creating music. I started my self-directed path without knowing it when I finished high school, because I decided not to study at a university and continue with my learning process in a self-taught way relying on the internet and acquaintances with experiences in my areas of interest. I currently manage my own musical artistic project independently and I work with artist friends in their creative projects as well. In the last two years I discovered the agile world and joined the group of young facilitators of Educambiando to deepen in the theory and practice of facilitation, because eventually I would like to be able to support other people in their learning processes, as well as gather tools and experiences to better coordinate collaborative projects in my future.

Dilip Jain

CA & MBA (SPJIMR) by qualification, Dilip Jain had a thriving corporate & business career which he exited at the age of 37 to volunteer for environmental & educational causes with Sonam Wangchuk of Ladakh. Few years back, he started dJED Foundation and works on ecological restoration and regeneration in India’s Maharashtra, Gujarat & Rajasthan. He runs projects like Me2 Kids Club, Save Jawai Wildlife, Aadi Maanav Academy, RevAranya and his Foundation has adopted Chinchwadi tribal village where they do comprehensive work on village development based on Gandhi’s model of Gram Swaraj (self-rule). He is actively involved with Indian Multiversities Alliance and it is his mission to move world's attention from Economy (part) to Ecology (whole) as he thinks that the existing materialistic development oriented belief system are self-defeating.

Emilio Fantin

Emilio Fantin sets the conditions for dialectic exchange between differing forms of knowledge. He pays a great deal of attention to dialogue, expressed as the art of conversation, and to the concept of the invisible community— whereby the poetic and evocative aspects of social life become a form of everyday practice. In addition to numerous seminars and workshops in international art institutions and museums, Fantin conducted workshops on art and architecture in public spaces at the Milan Polytechnic from 2005–2015. He was coordinator of the Oreste project (1995–2001), is a founding member of the Lu Cafausu collective (2007), founder of the Fondazione Lac o Le Mon (2015) and fan of Ecoversties.

Eva

wonderer/wander. storyteller. knowledge weaver. Eva is the founder and convenor of HIRAYA Collective for the Blind. HIRAYA Collective aims to create an alternative and accessible creative learning space for the blind and visually impaired community in the Philippines and beyond. HIRAYA seeks to re-imagine learning spaces that embrace curiosity, play, innovation and creative life. HIRAYA offers various multisensory workshops based on 6 themes: LASAP (flavor & aroma), GALAW (movement & rhythm), DAMA (imaging & sensing), DIWA (words & expression), ARUGA (wellness for all) and SAYA (play & innovation).

Franco Augusto

Franco is a social activist, unprofessionalized intellectual, unschooled father, co-creator of collaborative projects, and documentalist of alternatives around the planet, collaborating with processes of social transformation for more than 20 years now. He co-coordinates the Global Tapestry of Alternatives, an international process connecting networks of Radical Alternatives. Franco also leads the research-action Acervus Project, which seeks to recover and reintroduce the historical roots of post-industrial/post-growth/post-development ideas. He is also a fellow in the Post-Growth Institute. He has been involved in various thematic networks and projects, such as: REEVO alternative education network, Ecoversities Alliance, Enlivened Cooperative, the GNU Project, and The Forbidden Education film project among others. He is friend of the goliards, apprentice of the grandmothers, and follower of the dead

Inés Aponte

Inez has 25 years’ experience in creative facilitation, performance storytelling, participatory design and event management. Focusing on the interplay between language, storytelling and behaviour change, she seeks to cultivate our ‘radical collective imagination’. Her work with young people in communities and education, and her role as a mother, have offered her unique insights into the life world of young people. Her approach is both sensitive and joyful, allowing her to connect to many different individuals and groups.

Jerónimo Derkinderen

Jerónimo Derkinderen is an amateur mountaineer and climber, and member of a quiteño mountaineering club. He is currently completing a PhD programme in Latin American history at the Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar in Quito, Ecuador, where he is specializing in mountaineering history. His research focuses on Ecuadorean andinismo in the second half of the 20th century. His main concerns are the social, the environmental and interconnected facets of the practice of the activity. When not reading about mountaineering history he wonders why he loves to be scared on sketchy terrain in the mountains.

Kageki Asakura

Kageki Asakura has worked in both areas, the practices and the study of democratic education. Asakura has worked at the oldest free democratic school in Japan and founded the first Japanese democratic university, Shure University (TDU/Tekisen Democratic University, now). Asakura is Director there. Asakura visited democratic schools in the world and is also keen to network free democratic schools/ universities internationally. He has been an active member of International Democratic Education Conference for two decades. He loves to help launching democratic universities in the world. Asakura studies and writes about democratic education, history of education and ethnography of youth. Asakura is also a pioneer scholar of “self-ology”, a study about the self.

Katherine Desjarardins

Desjardins earned her MFA in painting in Florence, Italy, where she worked closely with mentors who came out of the Italian Radical Design movement, and with whom she continues to collaborate. This parallel “social” practice engages experiential pedagogy toward the collective creation of objects of speculative design. These projects are intended as catalysts for discussion--rather than answers or solutions--of shared topics of social concern, including gang violence, immigration, and the global climate emergency.

Kū Kahakalau

Dr. Kū Kahakalau is an award-winning Native Hawaiian educator, researcher, cultural practitioner, grassroots activist, visionary, community leader, traditional songwriter, and expert in Hawaiian language and culture. Dr. Kahakalau and her daughter ʻIʻini lead Kū-A-Kanaka, a native Hawaiian social enterprise, specializing in culture-based consulting and online education, targeting Hawaiians ages 15-30 enrolled in EA Ecoversity, a culture-based higher education and career training program founded by Dr. Kahakalau in 2020. EA stands Education with Aloha, since Dr. Kahakalauʻs research confirms that love, compassion, respect and kindness are the most important ingredients in 21st century education, just like they were in ancient times.

Lauren Hage

Lauren (she/her) is Executive Director, co-founder, and facilitator for the Weaving Earth Center for Relational Education. She comes from Ashkenazi Jewish (Odessa), Sicilian, and Scottish ancestry. Lauren has been working outdoors with youth, teens, and adults for 20 years. She is a certified facilitator of the somatics-based body of work called the Resilience Toolkit. She holds a degree in Earth Sciences and Geography, with a focus on the human-earth relationship, and holds certifications in Ecological Agriculture, Regenerative Design & Nature Awareness, Permaculture, Embodied Social Justice, & Integrated Trauma Therapy. She is also a part of Beyond Boundaries and the Fierce Allies practice community.

Marco Andrade V.

Marco Andrade V. (@MakariosAnand) vive en una comunidad de aprendizaje libre y sanación consciente en la Amazonía ecuatoriana junto a Karina, Nico y Luana. Comparte su vida junto a ellxs, explorando el camino de desaprendizaje constante para abrazar una REexistencia en armonía donde todx/todxs podamos florecer. Disfruta mucho como creador de contenidos audiovisuales y amplificador de diversos caminos y oportunidades de aprendizaje. Es parte de "Pulso Articulador" de la Red Mushuk Away (nuevo tejido).

Malaka Shwaikh

I am a Palestinian academic from the Gaza Strip, based in Scotland’s St Andrews University where I teach and research prisons as spaces of power, resistance, and peacebuilding. Much of my research has been on the dynamics of prison hunger strikes. In addition to my research commitments, I am a trustee of BRISMES, Firefly, and STEPS. In 2021, I co-founded Freelancers in Gaza with Candace Amani to connect youths in Gaza with clients around the world and provide them with mentorship. In my spare time, I love to spend time hiking in our beautiful Scotland or swimming in the North Sea whenever it is warm enough. And I have recently become interested in yoga and meditation. I find purpose in giving back to my community, whether it is through teaching, mentorship, volunteering in organisations that fit my life purposes, or simply taking good care of the people I love and myself to stay able to give back.

Michal Osterweil

Michal teaches in the Curriculum in Global Studies at UNC Chapel Hill. She believes that learning how to live into a resilient future requires a pedagogy that considers theory, history, and philosophy as well as more practical, spiritual and embodied knowledges and practices. Michal is a mother and radical homemaker who loves making (collective) life through gardening, cooking & feeding others, making tea blends and medicinal concoctions, and generally de-commodifying life! She’s recently been training in various healing modalities and embodiment practices, seeking to integrate them into her teaching.

Nariman Moustafa

Co-conspirator at the Ecoversities Alliance, I come from Cairo, Egypt with a long lineage of teachers including the Nile, the desert, my grandmother, and the 2011 Tahrir Square revolution. I work at the nexus of education, community organising and research using agile and adaptive methods. More formally, I am a researcher with the Edtech hub and a senior analyst with open development and education. I am in my element when facilitating participatory, arts-based, processes for emergence, assembly and re-imagining. I found several experiences of alternative education in Egypt including Mesahat for kids and Tagawor for adults. I also design and convene temporary autonomous zones around the world for practicing adaptable, intentional communal living.

Natalia Erstman

Natalia is Black Mountains College’s Creative Practice Lead, where she creates and manages our residential short courses, and will be Lecturing on our new Degree programme. She splits her time between BMC and Arts University Plymouth, where she leads the MA Creative Education. She is an artist, researcher and educator specialising in creating spaces where communities can learn their way into an uncertain climate changed future through artful and performative means.

Pavel Cenkl

Dr Pavel Cenkl is Head of Schumacher College and Director of Learning & Land at Dartington Trust in Devon, England, where he has worked since 2019 to support an evolving learning community founded at the intersection of arts, ecology and social justice. Pavel has written and presented widely in the areas of curriculum design, global learning networks, regenerative pedagogy, environmental humanities and ecology and has co-developed programmes in ecology, humanities, and sustainable and regenerative food and farming in the US and the UK.

Ritu-Ngapnon Varuni

Ritu-Ngapnon Varuni better known as Ritu Varuni is a trained architect and designer, who wears many hats that include natural architecture, craft and furniture design, writing and poetry to creative thinking and ethical learning, and natural Himalayan farming. After completing her research thesis in Nagaland in the nineties, she was based in Arunachal Pradesh and Assam for six years, working on researching and developing the use of bamboo in housing and craft along with other grassroots work. Her design work under her studio name of ‘E’thaan’, has centred around traditional Indian craft design and skill development for most of her working life and has been exhibited in India and internationally. She has written many articles for books and journals. Currently based in Himachal Pradesh, Varuni is the founder-director of the Himalayan Rilung Foundation, which is focused on developing a hands-on, skillbased experential learning programme centred around the Himalayan environment called ‘Mountainwind’. Her book titled The Apatani Way of life: Shaping a culture through Bamboo, Cane and Land use. (The Apatani tribe, Arunachal Pradesh, India) is based on her own experiences and research.

Sara Abbas

Sara Abbas is a researcher and current fellow of the Open Society Foundations under the theme "new and radical approaches to confronting economic inequality”. She is researching the imaginations and collective practices that have arisen in the sit-in/protestor-occupied spaces during Sudan's ongoing revolution. Amongst Sara’s publications are contributions to Diversity on Common Ground: Ten perspectives on contemporary feminism (2020 - Rosa Luxemburg Foundation) and A Region in Revolt: Mapping the recent uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa (2020- Daraja Press). Sara is an active member of several groups and coalitions working for a just world – the Global Prison Abolitionist Coalition, the Alliance of Internationalist Feminists-Berlin and SudanUprising Germany. Her current love is learning about plants, planting and indigenous and sustainable growing and farming practices.

Silvia Federici

a feminist activist, writer, political theorist, and Professor Emerita at Hofstra University. She also taught at the University of Port Harcourt in Nigeria. Part of the International Feminist Collective, which launched the campaign Wages for Housework internationally, she is also a co-founder of the Committee for Academic Freedom for Africa, of Midnight Notes Collective, and of the Radical Philosophy Association (RPA) anti-death penalty project. Among her widely circulated works are Wages Against Housework (1975) and Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation (2004), Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women (2018), Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle (2012), Re-enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons (2018), and her recent book Beyond the Periphery of the Skin: Rethinking, Remaking, Reclaiming the Body in Contemporary Capitalism (2020).

Shaun Chamberlain

Shaun co-created and leads Sterling College's year-round online programme 'Surviving the Future: Conversations for Our Time' . As an author and activist, he has served as a pioneer of the Transition Towns movement, one of the earliest Extinction Rebellion arrestees, and chair of the Ecological Land Co-operative. And created the book 'Surviving the Future: Culture, Carnival and Capital in the Aftermath of the Market Economy' from his late mentor David Fleming's legacy.

Suzette Swanson

Suzette Swanson, originally from Alaska; has been living in Egypt for more than 20 years. She combines her background in theater, spiritual counseling, and early childhood educational to create an educational environment that is unique, especially in Egypt. In 2021, along with a team of parents; she opened Luminare- a micro school in Dahab, Egypt. It serves 40 students ranging in age from 4yrs- 13 yrs. Suzette is currently the Principal/ owner, wife and mother of 3 children.

Thamara Monroy Gracia

I study and research the relationship between ecosomatics, corpovocality, parkour/freerunning/add, critical pedagogies and restorative conscious movement. I consider myself an accompanist, workshop leader and facilitator of group dynamics of dialogic learning and conscious movement. Parkour practitioner since 2009 and creator of the proposal "Parkour Silvestre", which takes up the natural training method and adds both the contributions of the somatic training method and the questions and perspective of ecosomatics. I collaborate with the project "KataZ. Nodos de autoformación" as a catalyst of creative processes of collaborative and self-directed learning; I also participate in the Katapulta project as a facilitator of the laboratory "Workids (parkour, crossfit and architecture) focused on the playful coexistence between children from 3 to 11 years old.

Ulises Contreras Vega

Nacido en San Luis Potosí, S.L.P. México Diseñador Gráfico egresado de la Facultad del Hábitat en la UASLP, especializado en producción audiovisual e identidad de marca. Terapeuta certificado en “Medicina de energía” por el CIET y actualmente estudiante de la Terapia del Campo Punto Cero en la Casa de Cultivo el Semillero. Cofundador de “Navegantes de la Consciencia”, espacio de encuentro para practicantes de la meditación y herramientas para el desarrollo de una mejor vida diaria. Profesor de Fundamentos del Diseño en el Instituto Thinkers

Vanessa Meng

Ms. Butterfly is my artistic and public name. I grew up between Hong Kong, Beijing and Taiwan. I graduated from Swarthmore College with a Philosophy and Peace and Conflicts Studies degree in 2020, and am currently attending the California Institute of Integral Studies for a Masters in Applied Psychology. I am part of the Peace and Justice Studies Association and involved with the Asian Pacific Islander Political Alliance. Guided by my heart, I am an educator, a healer, a creator and a friend.

Vera Franco

I am an Abundance Midwife. I open portals to an abundance of possibilities, helping you remove blocks and the veil that stands in the way of new options you didn't see before. I'm an Evolutionary, I take a stand for the evolution of human consciousness and thriving life on Earth (and beyond). I facilitate context-shift for greater consciousness and presence in communities; businesses; next cultures; and learning environments, centered on authentic adulthood initiatory processes. My job is to help you find your inner key, so you can heal and evolve yourself.

Wangũi wa Kamonji

Wangũi wa Kamonji is a regeneration practitioner who researches and translates indigenous Afrikan knowledges into experiential processes, art and honey. Her work is motivated by the twin challenge of healing and generating new realities for the present and future. Informed by research using academic and indigenous methods; storytelling in written and oral forms; traditional Afrikan dance and movement practice; and facilitating spaces for critical consciousness and transformation, Wangũi seeks to provide rooted embodied tools for Afrikans to heal the colonial traumas of past and present, and (re)create ways to live regeneratively with themselves, Earth and ancestors again i.e., for us to decolonise and reindigenise. Her work involves ancestral connection, dance choreography, improvisational movement, ancestral song, ritual design, indigenous food, oral storytelling, written poetry, story and essays, collective creativity, processwork, and nervous system regulation with the Resilience Toolkit™. Wangũi is based in Ongata Rongai, East Afrika.

Yeyo Beltrán

Sergio "Yeyo" Beltrán has designed and participated in multiple intercultural group facilitation experiences. He is co-founder of the University of the Earth in Oaxaca and Tools for Good Living, A.C. He currently supports and disseminates popular communication projects and educational alternatives around the world and practices the Art of Hosting Meaningful Conversations as an external consultant for companies, institutions and non-profit organizations. He is a member of the Ecoversities Alliance among other global networks.

Addie Lentzner

Addie (she/her) is a youth advocate, activist, and first year college student at Middlebury College in Vermont, USA. She is the founder of the Vermont Student Anti-Racism Network, a group of students working to build anti-racist schools through designing curriculum, leading lessons with students, donating books to schools, and working on policy advocacy. She is an Executive Fellow with Our Turn, a national education nonprofit whose mission is to uplift student voices in the fight for education justice. Aside from education and anti-racism, Addie has worked on policy advocacy around homelessness and housing and succeeded in reinstating policy that kept individuals experiencing homelessness housed over the winter. She is dedicated to uplifting youth voices in meaningful ways to make the change we urgently need.

Albert Stephen Salazar Corrales

Albert is an ocean storyteller, oceanographer, unresearcher, trickster, inhabitant of many worlds. He lives along the California Peninsula, in Kumeyaay Country, in-between the desert and the sea. He feels profound reverence and sympathy towards fossils and water stones. As of late, he has been listening to the Land, healing with the weather, learning how to be in service with the aliveness all around him, embracing the more-than-human world, exploring his own voice. At times, his night dreams are visited by wandering whales.

Ana Pura

Wanderer and apprentice since birth, Ana Pura (aka Ana C. G. Marques) is an attention activist who designs regenerative experiences under the principles of love, clarity, transformation and high-level fun. Opening paths for potentials to come to life brings her ultimate joy, alongside the sharpness of disillusionment and the empowerment of responsibility. She moves rapidly and unhurriedly between attentē, where she magnetizes attentionauts around deep attention pratices, and nōvi and MoL, where she supports communities and organizations foment autonomous learning cultures.

Atul Shrivastava

On a continuous path of self-discovery, Atul sees his quest for true education as an outward manifestation of his own inner quest to know his true self. He currently lives in Delhi (India), where he supports the alternative education ecosystem in capacity of a mentor, community-builder, cross-pollinator and an angel invester. In all his passion projects, he strives to strike the right balance between head and heart – the delicate dance between the drive for strategy, rigor, focus (something he picked from his stint in corporate & Tier-A education) and the virtues of surrender, beauty, equanimity (that he imbibed from different masters on his spiritual path)

Catarina Rosa

Catarina, Master-level biologist specializing in animal vocalizations, behaviour and evolution. Dancer and teacher with more than a decade of experience, in Portugal (her native land) and internationally, moving through different styles and somatic and mindfulness techniques and explorations. Eco.femi.activist, communications manager, translator, animal trainer, curator of festivals and workshops. A hoping bird between sea, mountains, desert, rurality and urbanity, deep lover of Nature and the humans that care for her.

Che’vanni Davids

Che-vanni Beon Davids is a social researcher and learning enthusiast who is dedicated to transforming the way we approach learning and personal growth. He founded the Reimagined Learning Community, a platform that incorporates wisdom from young people, nature, and intuition to help individuals achieve their full potential. Chevanni embraces the power of plant medicine, spends quality time with his son and family, and taps into the limitless well of inspiration from his dreams.

Crystal Foreman

Crystal L. Forman, MPH, MHA is the Owner and educator of Holistic Wellness and Health. Holistic Wellness and Health makes healthy living easy, nutritious, delicious and fun with a focus on plant-based foods to help you live a healthier, compassionate and more vibrant life. Crystal uses a whole person approach focused on mind, body, soul and spirit to improve the quality of life for all beings. Holistic Wellness and Health offers healthy plant-based cooking classes, wellness workshops, health coaching, gardening consultation, and mindfulness meditation.

Dan Rudolph

Daniel Rudolph is interested in exploring alternative, experiential learning opportunities for people of all ages. He is passionate about enabling community public spaces for meaningful, transformational gathering. For the last year and a half Dan has been a resident at MAPLE Monastic Academy participating in an awakened leadership training program. During this time he has continued his self-directed learning of juggling, sacred clowning and mindfulness meditation.

Doerte Weig

Doerte Weig’s fascination is to uncover how different facets of human physicality relate to socio-political transformation and ecological awareness. Doerte has a PhD in social anthropology and experience researching with hunter-gatherers, contemporary dancers, citizen scientists, corporate managers and fascia specialists. She enjoys audiovisual media for presenting research results (i.e., Changing Perspectives by Water Magic or The Sounds of Non-Violence). Doerte believes that we cannot think-perceive or speculate about the future of human societies, education, health or work without taking into account more the sensoriality of our moving-sensing bodies. In her book Tensional Responsiveness: Ecosomatic Aliveness and Sensitivity with Human and More-than, Doerte offers new vocabularies around ‘bodying’ and other inspirations for raising responsive ecosystemic sensitivity and awareness in humans. www.movementresearch.net

Geci Karuri-Sebina

Geci is a scholar-practitioner based in Johannesburg working in the intersection between people, place and technological change. She is Associate Professor in Digital Governance at the Wits School of Governance where she is coordinating the establishment of the new Tayarisha Centre and hosting the African Civic Tech Innovation Network. She is also a Principal at The School of International Futures (SOIF), an Adjunct Professor at the University of Cape Town’s African Centre for Cities, Associate of South African Cities Network, and a global faculty member with Singularity University on the future of cities and governance.

Hasnaa Mokhtar

Hasnaa Mokhtar is the Director of Global at Douglass College, Rutgers University. She holds a Ph.D. from Clark University, and her dissertation is focused on narrative power and the invisible trauma of gendered violence in Muslim-majority countries. She is a scholar, researcher, and activist, with expertise in the Arabian Gulf, focusing on narratives of Muslim survivors of gender-based violence. After graduating in 2015 with a M.A. in International Development and Social Change, Hasnaa developed a passion for transdisciplinary approaches to addressing violence in Muslim communities. Previously, Hasnaa served as the executive director of the Center for Nonviolent Solutions in Worcester, MA, and more recently as the special program director at Peaceful Families Project. Hasnaa is passionate about life, personal growth, spirituality, and everything in between

Houman Harouni

Houman Harouni was born in Iran, 1982. He is a lecturer at Harvard University, and his writings on education, philosophy, the arts, politics, and history of science have been published in The Guardian, Harvard Review of Education, American Reader, and the White Review, among other venues. Houman Harouni is a practice-based theorist of culture and education. His work — which combines psychology, philosophy, political economy, and pedagogy — addresses the potential of institutions for maintaining or changing social relations. His study of power-dynamics in culture opens to conclusions relevant for education as well as for leadership, organizational studies, and social theory. He has been an advisor to various ministries of and a long-time organizer and contributor to the training of teachers working with refugee populations in the Middle East.

Jeff Wagner

After a university education didn’t provide sufficient answers, Jeff began seeking answers to the big questions that weren’t answered by academia: how we might reimagine U.S. society in the age of climate change, and what it means to be a responsible human in an unraveling world. As a person dedicated to questioning the mindsets stemming from settler-colonialism, Jeff finds inspiration in the communities working to maintain and strengthen relationships with the natural world and with the sources of food, water, clothing, shelter, and meaning. Jeff likes walking slowly, weaving fabric and baskets, and growing beautiful varieties of heirloom seeds. Jeff founded Groundwork to help people pursue the goal of becoming ancestors that their descendants will be proud to tell stories about. Jeff is a certified Wilderness First Responder.

Joulia Strauss

Joulia Strauss is an artist, activist and multimedia sculptor. She was born in the Soviet Union as Mari, one of Europe’s last indigenous cultures with a shamanic tradition, and lives and works in Athens and Berlin. “Joulia Strauss” stands for a chord of artistic media, resonating in a deep bond with philosophy, technology and the ongoing reloveution for the world beyond Empire. Strauss is the founder and organizer of Avtonomi Akadimia in Athens. She is currently training to earn her third stripe in Việt Võ Đạo Kung Fu and finalizing her film Transindigeneous Assembly.

Kaushiek Pranoo

Kaushiek Pranoo is the founder of Unlearning Ashram through which he offers facilitated experiential unlearning journeys that empower human transformation inside out. Over the past decade, he has delved into authentic inner work, leadership, well being, community building and alternative learning pedagogies and has been serving in multiple roles as a facilitator, life coach, mentor, writer and business consultant, having had the privilege to work closely with people from diverse backgrounds across all age groups - from indigenous, rural to urban communities. He summarizes his unlearning journey thus far as, "I can see. I can respond. I can bow down."

Kristin Bunda

Kristin is a convenor of HIRAYA Collective - drawn to nature, culture, people, and stories. She is interested in engaged ecology and in navigating how lived experiences, with science and storytelling, can remind us of our interconnectedness. With a background in communications and digital marketing, her work seeks to help bridge the gap between science and the general public, as well as help people reconnect with nature. She hopes to help create a space that is welcoming for everyone. One that is inclusive and non-intimidating, with a language that brings people together rather than divides. She believes that all are storytellers and that games are a great way to make it more fun and impactful for everyone.

Liora Adler

Liora is a pioneer eco-social actionist, educator, facilitator, mentor, event organizer and dancer. Raised during the 60s social movements in the USA she came to understand that protest alone was inadequate for making substantive societal changes. While serving on the Board of Directors of the Global Ecovillage Network she also represented GEN in the United Nations. She has organized courses, workshops, events and artistic activities for 100s of people, including farmers, indigenous peoples and permaculture practitioners on 5 continents. In 2005, Liora and her husband Permaculture Designer Andrew Langford co-founded Gaia University With so much on her plate these days Liora dances to the tune of “older and bolder”.

Lynn Murphy

Lynn Murphy is a strategic advisor for foundations and NGOs working in the geopolitical South. She was a senior fellow and program officer at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation where she focused on international education and global development. She resigned as a”‘conscientious objector” to neocolonial philanthropy. She holds an MA and PhD in international comparative education from Stanford University. She is also a certified Laban/Bartenieff movement analyst.

Mama D. Ujuaje

Of the African diaspora routed through the Caribbean, Mama D Ujuaje is a creative, a community researcher and learning facilitator. Trained in Agriculture, horticulture with experience living and working with communities urban and rural across East and West Africa and the Caribbean and with a focus in decolonial and live art based processes, she has developed a variety of interactive learning experiences and explorations around the constitution and wielding of power at different social scales and geographies. She explores and examines the constructs of modernity/coloniality which disrupt and divert attention from somatic and social healing, repair and revitalisation. Her deep care and consistent attention is recognised as a critical mechanism through which working and living relationships have been successfully negotiated at different levels of organisation.

Marcela Scarpellini

Marcela Scarpellini (1985) was born and grew up in Venezuela. She studied law in Caracas, got her LLM in Environmental Law from Stockholm University. Besides teaching yoga and holding space for Darua, she currently works as a death and play doula and is a poet. Through her works she is concerned with connecting the dark and the light, through bringing awareness to those parts of us that may be asleep or afraid, to those shy parts of us keen to explore and play. She relishes in turning places of fear into places of wonder and joy.

Maria Muniz (Mayá)

Mayá, 73 years old, is an indigenous Brazilian woman of the Pataxó Hã-hã-hã-hãe ethnicity. She is one of the most remarkable indigenous educator in Brazil’s recent history, teacher of popular culture, writer, political and spiritual leader. Mayá has carried her school through 396 land retakes over 30 years. This long journey, together with the teachings of her mother, who kept alive the relationship of her children with the spiritual entities, forged this woman as an educator, giving body and intensity to her theory and to her counter-historiographical and decolonizing method.

Riham Aziz el Din

Riham Aziz El Din is an independent researcher of applied linguistics, feminist and critical pedagogies and professional development for educators. Riham holds a Master’s degree in Creative Dramatics with more than 10 years of hands on experience in curriculum design, digital empowerment for marginalized communities, human rights education and humanistic psychology in teaching and learning. Riham is a creative writer and poetess who dreams of a place where we can all live together: animals, trees, humans and find a creative way, perhaps a language or something else, to communicate and thrive together with peace, harmony and connectedness. Riham believes in magic when humans learn something new in their own way, own definition and on their own rhythm. To quote Riham, “When seeing a cat, I say Hello!”

Sarah Harb

Passionate Educational Leader /environmental activist with 10 years of Career Experience in Building Safe Communities, I have a proven track record in leading teams of (kids, youth, and Women) Who effectively engage with Children and Families. Founder of Dai Company for sustainable educational solutions. the company offers educational programs for people with knowledge, skills, attitudes, and values while paying attention to sustainable development and its issues and striving to be eco-friendly... Another program Nussima Educational Space (First Self-directed learning Space in (Alexandria, Egypt) for children and their parents by using active learning Strategies, techniques, and tools in the Education process, providing After School Program service and Alternative Schools based on self-directed Methodology that aspires to redefine Education in Egypt. We designed and implement 10 Educational programs till now.

Shafaat Shahbandari

Shafaat Shahbandari is a writer, journalist, poet and filmmaker. Words and their magical connotations have been his constant companions since he fell in love with them as a teenager and have been wedded to them ever since. Writing to make a difference and giving new meaning to the written word is his undying passion. As a writer, he likes giving voice to the voiceless, telling stories of people who are making a difference to our world quietly. As a poet, Shafaat touches upon a wide range of subjects, from the mundane daily stuff like death to more serious matters such as beauty of a crow. His poetic works are laced with generous doses of sarcasm and dollops of dark humour. As a journalist, Shafaat has worked in India and the UAE in an eventful career of almost 20 years, exploring stories in India, Asia, Middle East and Africa. As a filmmaker, he documents stories that matter, stories that are seldom told, stories that help you take a pause and rethink your reality! Currently based in Bengaluru, he is the founder of Thousand Shades of India, an alternative media initiative that celebrates the diversity of India through visual and literary interventions.

Sophia Bazile

Hello, I’m Sophia: an educator, facilitator, curator, convener, and perpetual seeker. I often serve as a companion or guide on journeys of individual and collective inquiry. As an enthusiastic 'generalist'/’serial specialist’ with a focus on socio-cultural change, I have exchanged in a range of contexts and around many different topics, including but not limited to Futures of: Work, Education, Talent, Tourism, Disaster Risk Resilience, Gender Equality & Women's Empowerment, Artificial Intelligence, Emerging Technologies and Digital Humanities, Spirituality, and Health & Wellness. I enjoy the co-creation of un/learning experiments that are decolonial, feminist, transdisciplinary, and experiential in their mixed methods approaches to re/imagining our possible futures yet-to-be-woven.

Stephanie Knox Steiner

As a peace educator and mindfulness practitioner, I help individuals and organizations integrate peace education into their work. Innovating and facilitating learning experiences that motivate action for a loving and just world is my contribution towards a global culture of peace. My areas of expertise include: sustainability, nonviolence, yoga, mindfulness, leadership, service learning, higher education, online learning and teacher professional development. What I offer is deeply inspired by the transformative work of teachers I’ve studied with: Joanna Macy, Meg Wheatley, and Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh.

Sunisa Janwiset Deiters

She lived and worked as a facilitator at Wongsanit Ashram, a socially engaged spiritual community for about 9 years, and later at Panya Permaculture project in Thailand. She helped create the Next Generation of Global Ecovillage Network of Asia & Oceania (NextGENOA) and is currently mentoring the young leaders of the network. She has facilitated courses in many countries for NGO workers, young Buddhists activists, international students and children. She uses participatory teaching methods and her focus is on deep ecology and nature connection. She founded Gaia Ashram with her partner in 2012. Now she divides her time Teaching, managing Gaia Ashram project and taking care of her kids.

Taskeen Adam

Dr. Taskeen is a Co-Director with Open Development & Education and a Senior Research Lead at EdTech Hub. She specialises in topics such as tech-supported teacher professional development, virtual learning environments and open education. She completed her PhD on ‘Addressing Injustices through MOOCs: A study among peri-urban, marginalised South African youth’ at the University of Cambridge. Her research highlighted that historical injustices, cultural imposition, and economic dependence continue to play a pivotal role in education. Her MPhil thesis focused on the ‘Sustainable Implementation of the One Laptop per Child project in Rwanda’. Alongside her academic pursuits, she pioneered Khwela (a regional online course platform) and Solar Powered Learning in South Africa as well as Mobile Education for Smart Technology in India. Prior to her career shift to EdTech, she worked as an electrical engineer, specialising in measurement and control. Publications available here.

Vaibhav Chhabra

Vaibhav is a Mechanical engineer by training, Carpenter by passion and an Educator by choice! A graduate from Boston University, Vaibhav spent the first 2 years of his career at EyeNetra, a startup from MIT Media Labs, building portable Virtual Reality based eye diagnostic devices. While working with the rural community in India for the eye diagnostic prototype, Vaibhav founded ‘Makers Asylum.’ Maker’s Asylum is a community space focused on fostering innovation through hands on learning. The space houses various labs that are co-located in order to facilitate prototyping of ideas that are interdisciplinary in nature. Vaibhav essentially coupled his degree with his passion to create the first community Makerspace in India. The key focus of this space has been to share the joy of making.

Vasna Ramasar

Vasna Ramasar is currently a Senior Lecturer in Human Ecology and a Research Fellow in Sustainability Science at the Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS) in Sweden. She was born and raised in South Africa, a dynamic country, where she learnt important lessons of freedoms, people’s roles in nature and about inequality. She has 10 years research, consulting and teaching experience across southern and eastern Africa, Asia, Europe and north America. In the past, her work has focused on water governance, environmental assessment and policy, HIV/AIDS and the environment and sustainability but being a generalist at heart, she is most interested trying to understand the big picture of how people and planetary dynamics come together and the complexity of these interactions.

Colaboradorxs

Alexandra Lopes

Hibist Kassa

Mahi Thakur

María Agraciada

Pilar Santiago

Safoora Arbab

Silvana Beraldo

Suzette Swanson

Thamara Monroy Gracia

Ulises Contreras Vega

Vanessa Meng

Canción matutina de Amali

Aser Cortines

Ana Pura

Atul Shrivastava

Camilo Bossio

Ichuni

Julia Wilhelm

Khethiwe Bikirah Mndawe

Maria Muniz (Mayá)

Riham Aziz el Din

Sami Soliman