Mattieu is a writer, a poet, and a researcher from Trinidad & Tobago. He researches how race and racism manifest in everyday life. His main research interests also include: environmental protection, inequality, education & governance in Small Island Developing States.
He is driven by the transformative potential of what might be considered 'radical' approaches to education. He secretly conspires to transform academia from the inside.
It is rumoured that Mattieu's kindness and presence can transform poetic moments into pure poetry.
Gioel is the director of the research team at Recrear. This team is Recrear’s right brain, in charge of developing Recrear’s methodologies and projects.
Gioel works to make youth's experience and voice part of international development logics. Gioel is also a PhD candidate at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, UK. Through a case study of Colombian youth organizations, Gioel’s PhD project explores how different funding models affect organizational culture as well as the quality of social organizations’ internal and external relationships.
It is rumoured that Gioel was the inspiration to one of the big hits of late 90’s “I’ll fly with you”, as she anytime, anywhere, makes anyone fly high in a show of acro-yoga.
Anna grew up in a small town in Germany, but she has been on the road since she was 17. She loves Latin America, and has an amazing capacity to pick up accents and slang from almost anywhere. Probably because of this talent she decided to earn a master in ‘conference interpretation’ in Cologne, Germany. She interprets her way between German, English and Spanish.
She’s spent the last couple of years working as a German teacher at a Red Cross refugee camp in Cologne, as well as teaching conflict resolution for Global Majority at Rancho Cielo, a school for at risk youth.
Anna is an everyday singer - she sings when she is happy, and she sings when she is sad, so she can be happy again. She loves music and plays a bit of every instrument in her sights.
