Sinda Arfaoui currently serves as a Program Coordinator and Virtual Exchange Facilitator at Soliya. Prior to this, she spent two years as an English Language Teacher in Tunisia and one year as a Fulbright Arabic Language Teaching Assistant at Boston University. Sinda is an alumna of the MEPI Student Leaders program, where she pursued summer courses in Civic Engagement and Leadership at Montana State University in 2018.
Maruee Pahuja is a Visual Artist, Intermodal Expressive Arts Therapy Practitioner and an Arts-Informed Ecotherapy Practitioner. She is currently working as an Ocularist and Specialty Contact Lens Consultant at Natasha Eye Care and Research Centre and is the creative trainings co-lead for People Beyond Borders. Maruee is driven by the curiosity to find intersections in the fields of arts and science. She loves gardening and is often found sailing on the ship of her imagination.
Asmaa Sleem is Egyptian and believes that the main hope of any nation lies in the education of its youth. She is also convinced that hope for this world means spreading peace, mindfulness, justice and moral integrity through people’s education, raising awareness, living consciously and the power of togetherness. She sees herself as a lifelong learner and has worked in peace facilitation and conflict transformation.
Hani Abou Fadel began embarking his journey into becoming a changemaker when he began developing a passion for history, geography, politics, philosophy and cultures at the age of 12. This eventually led to him to obtain a Master in Global Studies from Lund University with a main focus on climate change and its politics, gender studies, postcolonialism, and Global South politics. Hani was diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome when he was 7 years old. Although this meant many struggles while growing up he eventually became a changemaker.
Steven Lin is a CPLP alumni from Canada where he works as a Family Outreach Worker, helping young parents achieve their personal and parenting goals. He is passionate about youth leadership and has been engaged in various initiatives to help develop future leaders. He loves to learn new things and to chat with people. If you need someone who will listen, he is the one to go to.
Ahmed Abdelsalam is 26 years old and from Egypt. He is a student, learner, educator, facilitator and story-maker, striving for quality.
Of German origin, Viviane Straub is currently based in Sweden, mostly surrounded by the sea, children, and pine trees. She was deeply moved by her personal journey during the Caux Peace and Leadership Programme in 2019 and has since been part of the Creative Leadership team. She hopes to create spaces for dialogue and connection to self, others, and the more-than-human world. Having studied Human Ecology, she is particularly interested in environmental justice and finding alternatives to dominant narratives.
Ines Mokdadi is a University Agrégée Professor of English at ISEAH in Tunisia and specializes in Applied Linguistics. Her research focuses on critical discourse analysis and power dynamics. She also works as a freelance translator and interpreter and has served as a Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant (FLTA) Alumna at the University of Notre Dame, USA (2020-2021). In addition to her academic and professional pursuits, Ines is deeply passionate about civic engagement, inclusion, and cross-cultural understanding.
Daniel Clements is British and has a passion for working with young people. He is a teacher in Coventry with strong ambitions to engage in educational reform. He sees the challenges people face today as deeply spiritual, and has a desire to enable people to overcome inner darkness and live lives of truth and compassion.
Sidra Raslan is a young Syrian determined to take part in making the world and her country a better place. She believes in the power of youth and the gift of diversity, and that when these are combined with personal stories and an openness to share, they can provide a space that inspires leadership and a cascade of change – the Creative Leadership conference. Her journey with IofC began in 2016. Since then she has carried in her heart a piece of the IofC centre in Switzerland, the Caux Palace, and the people she met there.