Marcella works on-on-one with artisans all over the world to preserve their craft and enhance profitability by linking developing communities to developed markets.
Marcella has a BA in history and literature from Brown University, a certificate in book and magazine publishing from Radcliffe, a Masters in Sustainable Development and many years of experience as a social and cultural entrepreneur. She founded SURevolution, a sustainable fashion company with an outstanding brand recognition and commercial presence in the US.
Her consulting clients include The United Nations (UN), Unesco, USAID, Technoserve, The International Finance Corporation (IFC), Grassroots Business Fund, The Organization of American States (OAS), The Governments of!Colombia, Cambodia, Perú, and Swaziland and many institutions and companies such as Cadex Bolivia, Bavaria Colombia, Repsol Bolivia, Kirah Design Bolivia, Adele Dejak Kenya, Vista Alegre Brazil.
in May 2008 the German First Generation University Student Katja Urbatsch founded the webpage ArbeiterKind.de (“working class kid”) in order to encourage high school students to become First Generation College Students and to support them on their way to their successful degree.
Thanks to the surprisingly large media attention, the webpage has developed to become the only and biggest German Network of current and former First Generation University students with nationwide 5.000 members and volunteers who are engaged in 70 local groups. Also, over 30,000 people use the website every month.
The initiative tackles many of the problems facing German higher education in a systematic manner. By dubbing youth with non-academic parents as “Arbeiterkind”, it gives them a positive identity within society. Through Arbeiterkind.de, children with non-studied parents become aware of the specific problems they face related to their social background, and as they meet peers confronting similar challenges, they gain confidence and self encouragement.
Josef Kreitmeyer works in the field of sustainable cultural transformation and sustainable transformative education. With his team of www.getactive.org he develops and runs programs for empowering transformative young leaders and enabling starting up sustainable projects and businesses.
He is working as a Trainer and Facilitator of Dragon Dreaming – Project Design and other participatory and transformative social techniques.
Harvesthink tackles the common problems of rural areas in many European countries like aging of population, high levels of migration, lack on employment and in pacrticular in Croatia the high dependance on summer tourism and the need for more entreprenurial attitudes and innovativeness.
Harvesthink vision is to build a local diversified economy based on entrepreneurship and fueled by empowered and conscious community members where local resources, heritage, wisdom, skills and social capital blend with global experiences and resources.To achieve this, the Harvesthink team has launched Harvesthink travel lab.
ParliamentWatch is an independent platform which gives German citizens the possibility to ask public questions and receive public answers from their members of parliament over the Internet. 95 percent of all delegates participate in this online dialogue. The platform has been successfully exported to Tunisia, Luxembourg, Austria and Ireland.
