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Ljubljana 2025
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Catalina Cock Duque

Co-founder and Chief, Fundación Mi Sangre

Catalina is a social entrepreneur driving systemic change through innovation. As co-founder and President of Fundación Mi Sangre, she leads initiatives to unlock young people’s potential and activate ecosystems for more peaceful, democratic, and regenerative societies. Under her leadership, the organization has impacted over 2 million lives in Colombia, addressing issues like violence prevention, reconciliation, gender equity, and migrant inclusion. Recognized as Social Innovator of the Year by the Schwab Foundation in 2024, she is also an Ashoka Fellow, Synergos Fellow, and Aspen Fellow. Catalina co-created the world’s first social and environmental certification for artisanal gold mining, scaling it across 10+ countries as co-founder of Green Gold and the Alliance for Responsible Mining. Certified as an Integral Coach, she consults globally on leadership, social innovation, and systems change, fostering collaboration across Latin America, North America, Europe, and Africa.

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Bilbao 2022
Ljubljana 2025
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Sam Lee

Artist, Singing With Nightingales

Sam Lee holds a unique place in British music as a Mercury Prize-nominated singer, inventive arranger, song collector, folksong interpreter, conservationist, and creator of live events. His work consistently challenges what traditional music can be—bridging heritage with bold innovation and breathing new life into ancient songs. His journey began with the groundbreaking 2012 debut Ground Of Its Own, a striking blend of traditional and contemporary sounds that earned a Mercury Prize shortlist and was supported by a prestigious Arts Foundation award. It signaled Sam’s immediate and distinct presence on the folk and wider music scene. He followed with albums The Fade In Time and Old Wow, both further showcasing his talent for fusing old and new, earning recognition from Songlines (Artist of the Year) and BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. His 2024 album songdreaming marked another creative peak—named one of Mojo’s Top 10 Folk Albums of the Year and awarded Best European Album at the 2024 Songlines Music Awards. It has remained a fixture on the Official Folk Albums Chart. Songlines magazine wrote: “We’ve seen Sam Lee progress from wunderkind singer and song collector to a respected spokesperson of the planet, its custodians (of all species) and its sounds… A folk voice for the England of the 21st century.” Beyond music, Sam is a storyteller and environmental advocate. In 2021, he published The Nightingale: Notes on a Songbird, exploring the legacy of the bird in folklore, music, and ecology. As a regular voice on radio and TV, and a skilled composer for film, his songs have appeared in major productions including King Arthur (2017), The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (2023), and Speak No Evil (2024) starring James McAvoy. He is the founder of The Nest Collective, an influential platform for folk, global, and acoustic music, active for over a decade. A committed activist, Sam co-founded Music Declares Emergency, served on the boards of the UK’s Featured Artists Coalition and the US Folk Alliance International, and partnered with EarthPercent to donate a portion of album proceeds to environmental causes. Sam’s deep connection to music and nature was sparked in his childhood in Kentish Town and shaped by summers at Forest School Camps. His artistry has been deeply influenced by mentors such as Scottish Traveller singer Stanley Robertson and by years of collecting songs from Gypsy and Traveller communities across the UK. With every project, Sam Lee affirms that tradition and transformation can exist hand-in-hand—creating work that is musically rich, socially conscious, and deeply rooted in the cultural and natural world.

Bilbao 2022
Ljubljana 2025
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Heather Wolf

Musician, voice coach, facilitator; True Voice, Brewess, Teen Talking Circles

Artist for the Remembrance of Folk Wisdom, Heather Wolf is a singer, storyteller, voice coach, and circle practitioner from the islands of the Pacific Northwest. Running through her work is a conviction that folk arts and practices – living within the collective, belonging to the whole, and forming the vital foundation of every healthy culture – can help us embody our sacred relations with other humans and the living world. Heather leads private sessions, retreats, and workshops worldwide, gives mythopoeic performances of folk song & story with the Appalachian mountain dulcimer. Her music spans soothing, entrancing folk ballads to moody, sensuous rock. With a voice both mesmerizing and enchanting, she sings to a wild and ancient soul moving through all things. Heather’s upcoming LP Midnight Hour is out this July, 2025. www.heatherwolf.love

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Aakash Odedra

Choreographer; Performer; Artistic Director, Aakash Odedra Company

Aakash Odedra is an internationally acclaimed contemporary dancer and choreographer based in Leicester, UK. Known for his unique synthesis of classical Indian dance form Kathak with contemporary dance, Aakash has gained significant recognition, including the Bessie Award, the Amnesty International Award for Freedom of Expression, the British Empire Medal (BEM) awarded by HRH Queen Elizabeth II in 2020 and the most recent “Best Show”at the Edinburgh International Festival. Trained under renowned gurus like Nilima Devi, Asha Joglekar, Chitraleka Bolar, and Chhaya Kantaveh, Aakash seamlessly blends the intricacies of classical dance with modern sensibilities. His works, such as Rising, Murmur, Echoes, #JeSuis, Samsara, Mehek, and Songs of the Bulbul, have been performed globally to critical acclaim. He has collaborated with distinguished artists like Akram Khan, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Russell Maliphant, Aditi Mangaldas, Rani Khanam, Sabrina Mahfouz, and David Poznanter. A frequent headliner at major international festivals, Aakash continues to create evocative and thought-provoking performances that resonate with audiences worldwide.

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Elaine Forde

Creative Learning & Engagement Manager, The MAC (Metropolitan Arts Centre)

Elaine has focused in career working with artists and communities to drive personal and social change. As Creative Learning & Engagement Manager she has over ten years’ experience of senior leadership experience in two of Northern Ireland’s leading arts organisations – the MAC (Metropolitan Arts Centre) in Belfast and The Playhouse in Derry. Over the past 20 years her work has been rooted in social practice – working alongside community members, partner organisations and artists to drive positive social change. Her work has resulted in ex-combatants from Northern Ireland’s conflict becoming peacebuilders; hostile policing protocols changing to better support young people; and the testimonies of people in the asylum system contributing to the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission’s action to prevent the UK Government’s illegal Migration Act from being implemented in Northern Ireland. She holds a Masters in Fine Art in Chelsea Art College (London University of the Arts), a Post Graduate Diploma in Arts Management from Ulster University and a BA Degree in Fine Arts from Ulster University.

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Anne Walker

Facilitator and Director, Theatre of Witness Network

Born in 1968, the normalisation of violence and conflict including the Murder of her uncle on “Bloody Sunday” had a profound impact on how Anne lived in the world and identified as a young woman of Derry. At age 18 she became a Republican Activist. In 2010, in search for a deeper personal understanding, Anne engaged with Theatre of Witness in their Production of ‘I Once Knew a Girl’. She shared her story for the first time. This process was revelatory for Anne who felt a profound change had occurred. Since then, Anne has worked tirelessly to effect change through Live Performances, Storytelling & Art Workshop Facilitation, Media Recording or Personal Connection. Anne has used her story to help others on their journey toward reconciliation working with groups of ex-opposing combatants, victims and survivors, police, army, and people from conflict backgrounds locally, nationally and globally. Anne’s work includes regular collaborations with; Theatre of Witness, Schools and community groups, Shared Education, European and American colleges , Warrington Peace Centre, Ex-prisoners and combatants, Member of the Irish Consortium of Women’s mediators, Glencree All Island Women’s Peacebuilding Network. Centreity, Training for Women’s Network and Women in Community, Playhouse Derry (Peace Academy) Research Advisory Committee – NI Arts. OSCE – Organisation for Security and Co-Operation in Europe.

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Paula Moreno

President, Manos Visibles

I am Paula Moreno, a legacy builder, architect of collective dreams, and engineer of social transformation. I have dedicated my life to challenging inequality and building structures of equity. As the first Afro-Colombian woman and youngest minister in Colombia’s history, I learned that profound transformations are born from imagining new futures and charting pathways to make them a reality. For over twenty years, through academia, government, philanthropy, and Manos Visibles, I have worked to impact lives, strengthen leadership, and weave networks of transformation across Colombia and more than fifteen countries.

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Ljubljana 2025
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Mohsin Mohi Ud Din

Artist, Storytelling Activist, and Founder of MeWe International

Mohsin Mohi Ud Din is an artist, community activist, and founder of the global non profit, #MeWe International Inc. (#MeWeIntl). #MeWeIntl is a global network of artists, scientists, and community-builders who design methodologies and tools for creative expression and communication skills-building to advance the healing, equity, and social cohesion in a fragmented and polarized world. For over 15 years, Mohsin has scaled his storytelling methodology across more than 15 countries, from the valley of Kashmir, to the Syrian refugee camps in the Middle East, to the mountains of Morocco, Honduras, and Mexico. His movement has supported more than 20,000 vulnerable youth and caregivers and dozens of community building organizations fighting violence, forced displacement, incarceration, and poverty. Mohsin previously worked for human rights organizations such as Human Rights First, and worked in the Strategic Communications Division for the MDGs and SDGs for the United Nations in New York. His work has received honors from SOLVE MIT at the UN, the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations, Open Ideo and others. As an expert in strategic communication and community storytelling, Mohsin’s documentary films are featured in TIME Magazine, and have premiered at more than 7 international film festivals. He is a 2025 Creativity Pioneer Award recipient by the Moleskine Foundation, and was named a 2024 Tallberg Leadership. Network. In 2009, Mohsin received a Fulbright Scholarship to pilot his methodologies in Morocco. Over the years his words and visual pieces are featured in VICE News, Al Jazeera, Huffington Post, and The Nation.

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Ljubljana 2025
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Cynthia Botello

Experimentation Coordination, Institute for The Future of Education, Tecnológico de Monterrey

Ph.D. in Philosophy with a specialization in Administration and a Master’s in Public Health Sciences from the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León. She is a professor at the Business School of Tecnológico de Monterrey, where she teaches courses on human capital, project management, and multigenerational leadership, integrating wellbeing-centered approaches into educational and organizational practices. Her professional experience focuses on the strategic management of projects that foster educational innovation with positive impact. She has led initiatives that merge experimental design, impact measurement, and emerging technologies—such as artificial intelligence—to build healthier, more empathetic, and sustainable learning and working environments. As a mentor in experimentation and impact measurement, she supports educators and, ensuring alignment with institutional goals and evolving human needs in rapidly changing contexts. She applies data-driven, mixed-method approaches to guide decision-making processes that enhance organizational resilience and individual engagement. She is a member of the Psychopedagogical Research Group at the School of Humanities and Education at Tecnológico de Monterrey. Her research explores organizational factors, engagement, and burnout among students and professionals. During her research stay at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, she investigated the perception of quality of life among university students, reinforcing her commitment to designing more human-centered educational experiences. Her work combines self-directed learning, empathy in education, and the strategic application of technology to explore innovative ways of enhancing wellbeing through advanced analytics and experimental frameworks. With an interdisciplinary vision, she seeks to transform educational environments into spaces of personal and professional flourishing.