Adviser on Arabic Culture Mohammed works as a lecturer in Industrial and System Engineering at King Fahud Univerity in Saudi Arabia. Currently, he is pursuing his Ph.D. in Industrial & Systems Engineering (ISE) at Virginia Tech University in Blacksburg, USA. His research focuses on modeling resilience in sociotechnical systems. He is also interested in fostering…
Adviser on African and Caribbean Cultures Amina is a political scientist, early childhood educator, with a PhD in Cultural Studies at the University of the West Indies, and Director of the Culture in Education Programme in the Ministry of Education, Jamaica. But above all she is an accomplished storyteller, writer, director, performer, and custodian of…
Adviser on West African Cultures Victor Matthew Ayegba is a passionate climate change activist, environmental and social justice storyteller, teacher of Science and Geography and Environmental Education at Sahel Academy, Kano, Nigeria. He is also an Earth Charter Young Leader, a Climate Reality Leader (trained by former Vice President, Al Gore), a member of Green…
Oneida Nation (Iroquois) / Adviser on North American Native Cultures Laurie Roberts is a lineal descendant of Tsilikomah, an Oneida (Iroquois) healer in Cascaskia, on the Shenango River, ca. 1800, who took up responsibility for a vast Oral Tradition and Learning Way from an Erie/Oneida Keeper of the Old Things who was her patient. This…
Adviser on the Mapuche People Educator, researcher, composer, and interpreter of Mapuche and Latin American music, Nancy San Martín spent much of her childhood in the community of Valle de Imperialito, where she learned the first ancestral toquios from the Kultrún from the Machi María and the continuous song of his Uncle Rosendo and his…
Adviser on Jewish Tradition Dr. Ruben Sternschein is Rabbi of the Paulista Israelite Congregation and has been a professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He founded and directed the Liberal Jewish Community of Barcelona and was selected as a Jewish representative to the interreligious group of UNESCO in the same city. He is currently…
Adviser on education issues from the Global South Dick is a social geographer, educator and writer who has worked as a teacher, head teacher and consultant on educational projects in Tunisia (1974), Zambia (1975-1977), Rwanda (1996, after the Tutsi genocide), South Africa (2000-2007, after Apartheid), Palestine (2005-2007), Kenya (2008-2018), Uganda (2008) and Sri Lanka (2018-2020).…
Adviser on Celtic Cultures George is the seanachaidh –keeper of the oral tradition, tribal memory– of the Macpherson and MacLeod clans in the Scottish Highlands, a charge that has been passed down from grandfather to grandson for more than two thousand years. He is one of Scotland’s best known storytellers, and has told his stories…
Adviser in Peace and Conflict issues and Slavic Cultures Alena has a PhD in Peace, Conflicts and Democracy, and a Master in Peace, Conflicts, Education and Human Rights from the University of Granada, Bachelor of Teaching Spanish Language, Modern Languages from the Minsk State Linguistic University (Belarus), and Bachelor in Slavic Philology and Degree in…
Adviser on Chinese Cultures Xueping Luo was born into a Hakka family in a Cantonese village in Guangdong in southern China. She has lived in Shanghai (east central) and Beijing (northern), and travelled extensively in China and overseas, primarily as an interpreter and translator. Xueping has master’s degrees in Responsible Management and Sustainable Economic Development…