Kirsten Bruun

Co Chair

Member since 2007

Kirsten Bruun has recently retired from her position as an after-school teacher on the Gobal line at Flakkebjeg Efterskole on Zealand in Denmark. The focus was here on teaching global citizenship and cultural meetings in many different ways. Kirsten Bruun now works as a volunteer in connection with cultural and social work. She is also on the board of the organization Crossing Borders, which works across countries to educate young people for active global citizenship. Kirsten Bruun now lives in Svendborg on Funen in Denmark.

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Rex O. Schade

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Vice-President

Denmark.

Rex has been member of AWE since 1995. He is also the Chair of UN-Committee in AWE. He has been a lifelong educator, taught at Ryslinge Højskole, Denmark for 35 years, 1974-2009, in Pedagogic/Education and Politics. International manager of World Class NGO and EU-Projects. Member of the Association for Folke Højskoler, FFD in Denmark since 1974.

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Alla Nazarova

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Vice President

Member since 2013

Alla is a lifelong learner and educator at heart. She implements international projects in education, enlightenment, pedagogy and ecology, consistent with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. She is engaged in the study/dissemination of the experience of Danish Folk Schools and the heritage of Danish educator, priest and poet N.F.S. Grundtvig.

Alla lives in Belgium.

Dechen Wangmo

Vice President

Member since 2025

Dechen Wangmo is the Principal of the Siddhartha High School Stok, Ladakh, India. She is trying to integrate leadership development skills including awareness on SDGs among students through  formal school program. She is an active member in the local community and also promotes Ladakhi cultural heritage through school activities. 

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Igor Folvarochnyi

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Vice President

Igor Folvarochnyi is from Ukraine. He is a Doctor of Education (Dr.hab) at the National University of Ukraine on physical education and sport. His interests are in the history and theory of world education. As an activist, he encourages his students to build a democratic society, develop the skills and attitudes of active citizenship, and cooperate with the government and non-government educational and scientific institutions.

Noël Bonam

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Global President

Member since 2008

Noël has been the Global President of the organization since 2013 and is currently serving his third term. He is the State Director of AARP Maine. He is the Founder and former Head of The Global Institute, a public benefit organization, specializing in social equity, leadership development and organizational sustainability. He is a Director of the Global NGO Executive Committee (affiliated to the United Nations). He is also a visual and performing artists. He lives in Portland (Maine), United States.

May Rendon Cinco

Member AWE & UN Committee

May is a grassroots educator from the Philippines. Her 38 years of experience in development work includes working with sectors like the farmers, fisherfolks, women, indigenous people, persons with disabilities, urban poor/informal settlers, marginal handicrafts producers/artisans, and Muslims in Mindanao Island of the Philippines, in the fields of leadership formation and empowerment, education advocacy, adult learning and education, community-based socio-economic enterprises, environmental protection, gender and development, and local governance. She also writes modules and workbooks for grassroots education.

Gina Nzeba Tshiswaka Hagebro

Member AWE & UN Committee

Gina Nzeba Tshiswaka Hagebro. Member of AWE Danish chapter and International member 2022.

She was born in the Democratic Republic of Congo and has been living in Denmark since 1998. She participated autumn of 1998 in a five-month NGO Management program at The Danish Ryslinge Højskole's international World Class Project. Gina has a bachelor's in social education and a diploma in social work from the University College of Copenhagen. She works now as a Family therapist with families, young people, and children, in Furesø Community, Copenhagen. DK. She is the founder and front woman of the NGO Congos Børn in Danmark and the founder of NGO Maison VIGALEX in Kinshasa in DR.CONGO. These 2 NGOs are in close collaboration with each other and the goals are to provide a better life for the kids living in the street in DR.Congo.

Doraci Engel

Porto Alegre, Brazil

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Member since 2018

After 25 years working as a journalist and communication adviser for several organizations, Doraci decided to engage in a new background in philosophy. He has just completed his PhD with a dissertation on epistemic agency, a topic at the intersection of epistemology, theory of action, and ethics. At present, he is locating his intellectual interests in what contemporary philosophy and anthropology describe as the indigenous thought. More specifically, he is trying to come up with some theorization about the epistemological and political implications of the notion of practical knowledge that has been used in these descriptions. Doraci is also  co-founder and former president of Ipanema Comunitária 87.9 FM, a community radio station based in his neighborhood and broadcasted to the southern suburbs of Porto Alegre.