Maria Arrufat is a feminist, humanist, anthropologist by training and mediator by vocation. She likes to accompany people in their changes and help them improve their relationships.

A little more than fifteen years ago she started her path in mediation. It was in the penitentiary field where, as an intercultural mediator, she learned the first tools of transformative conflict management. Since then, during her professional career she has shared several projects and been part of several teams, with a common denominator, mediation in the municipal sphere, which has allowed her to acquire a community view of social problems. She currently works as a secondary school educator.

mariaarrufat@AHEADedu.org

Xavier Baró is one of the founders, board member and educational adviser of the Association of Human Rights Educators. Xavier has over twenty years of experience in the educational and youth fields as trainer. He combines the work at European level with the local activism in Barcelona.

As trainer and educational adviser Xavier Baró collaborates in a regular basis on the development of Training activities for the European Commission, the Education Department and the Youth Department of the Council of Europe; and the Anna Lindh Foundation for the Dialogue among cultures.

xavierbaro@aheadedu.org

Thomas Duchini is a graduate in Linguistic and Cultural Mediation and with a Master in Development and International Cooperation.

The rights of children and groups at social risk, such as migrants, refugees and LGBTI + people, have always been the object of his interest.

Thomas has participated as a volunteer in international cooperation projects with schools and educational centres in Africa and Brazil and here in Catalonia he has worked with associations that defend human rights.

Currently he combines his activism with his work as an Italian and English teacher.

Thomas was member of the coordinators team of the Living Libraries project and currently member of the Board of AHEAD.

thomas@aheadedu.org

Ljubov Lissina is a founding member of AHEAD. She is the European coordinator of the Living Expressions in Dialogue Library projects. With more than 15 years of experience as an educator and trainer for human rights education.

Ljubov is a member of the Council of Europe’s Pool of trainers where she works on various programs at European level.

ljubov@aheadedu.org

Eva Navarro is a social educator and teacher of secondary education. She combines her profession with illustration and art therapy, and works on the development of human rights education through art.

Eva has collaborated on several AHEAD projects, and is part of the coordination team of the European Project: New Era - New youth work practices on refugee inclusion. She is currently a Board Member of AHEAD.

Eva@aheadedu.org

Coordinators Team Expressions in Dialogue

Project Description Expressions in Dialogue: Innovative youth work practices on refugee inclusion through Living Libraries

Coordinators Team Not Alone in Europe

Project Description Not Alone in Europe: Intersectional youth work on refugee inclusion

Coordinators Team Citizens Cohesion

Project Description Citizens' Cohesion and Community Mediation Project

Bet is a Political Science and Public Management student in the Universitat Autònoma in Barcelona and she is doing her internship with us. She has committed much of her adolescence to the education through sports to children and youngsters.

Thanks to her Erasmus experience in Konstanz, Germany, her interest grew on international politics and, especially, on an European level. With our projects she will have the opportunity to grow and keep learning on other areas of the European Union. In order to be able to define herself on a professional level and start tracing her objectives for the future.

bet.gamell@aheadedu.org

Núria is an International Relations student at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and is currently doing her internship in our association. She has a link to non-formal education among children and youngsters through her participation in the Scout movement in her hometown, Vic. In the future, she would like to keep learning and training in the field of Human Rights and International Law. This interest grew in her during her Erasmus year at Sciences Po Strasbourg, since she had the chance to get introduced to institutions such as the Council of Europe and the European Court of Human Rights.

nuria.gonzalez@aheadedu.org

Maria has almost ten years of experience working in the third sector as trainer, project manager, translator and interpreter, and a few more as a volunteer and activist in social movements. She has worked with minorities, women and children.

Maria worked on Human Rights and Education for Peace in Palestine in 2006, with children from a refugee camp in the West Bank. Since then she has been involved in social projects which bring together both sides of the Mediterranean and in the struggle for a fair peace in the Middle East, as well as in the promotion of intercultural dialogue and social justice back home.

Maria started working with AHEAD as a member of the translation team of the manual "Petit Compass", she was the President of the Association of Human Rights Educators (AHEAD), and nowadays she is a member of the Board.

maria@AHEADedu.org

Marina López is an educational psychologist and teacher

specialised in children with special needs, and counsellor in a public secondary school. Currently she focus on students with an immigrant background.

Marina started her cooperation with AHEAD by joining different on local and international level related with Human Rights Education (HRE).

She has always felt a strong motivation to work close to communities in social risk of exclusion. Currently she is working and strengthening my skills as a teacher in a state school in Catalonia. Marina wants to get to know and get personally involved in other practices on the educational field in different places in the world, so that she can both personally and professionally develop from these experiences.
Currently she is the Vice-President of the Association of Human Rights Educators (AHEAD).

marina@AHEADedu.org

Ramon Tena (andorra@AHEADedu.org)

I have a degree in Political Sciences.

I’m a mediator and trainer in conflict transformation. Two years ago I left my job as a Diplomat to start a social entrepreneurship project. Its main objective is to promote culture of peace within organizations.

I also work in Human Rights Education, both nationally and internationally. I have participated in different projects of the Council of Europe and the Youth in Action program.

At present, I’m following credentialing process for the Council of Europe’s Pool of Trainers.

andorra@aheadedu.org

Thomas Duchini is a graduate in Linguistic and Cultural Mediation and with a Master in Development and International Cooperation.

The rights of children and groups at social risk, such as migrants, refugees and LGBTI + people, have always been the object of his interest.

Thomas has participated as a volunteer in international cooperation projects with schools and educational centres in Africa and Brazil and here in Catalonia he has worked with associations that defend human rights.

Currently he combines his activism with his work as an Italian and English teacher.

Thomas was member of the coordinators team of the Living Libraries project and currently member of the Board of AHEAD.

thomas@aheadedu.org

Meritxell Vidal studied Pedagogy and combined her studies with her passion on environmental projects and in constant contact with education.

Meritxell has worked in education from different perspectives: organising courses, being a trainer and coordinating educational, volunteering related, projects. She is a trainer on environmental education, ecotourism, youth leaders, and training of trainers with different audiences and ages. Nowadays she is working as an English teacher with younger learners.

Meritxell works and lives in Terres de l'Ebre, in the south of Catalonia.

projectes@aheadedu.org