Theme: Colouring the world

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Auditorium, UWC Adriatic
Frazione Duino, 29
Collegio del mondo Unito dell'Adriatico
Duino-Aurisina (TS), Trieste, 34011
Italy

Ali Hassanali

Physical Chemist

“I am currently a Junior Research Scientist working at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste. My research interests lie in using a combination of theoretical and computational approaches to understand the fundamental properties of both bulk water as well as water near organic matter. I was born in Tanzania and grew up in Kenya where I did all my high school education. I then moved to the USA where I got my undergraduate at Purdue University. I then moved to Ohio-State University in Columbus, OH where I got my PhD in Biophysics trying tounderstand the structure and dynamics of water at interfaces like proteins, DNA and glass. This is where I got really curious and excited about delving deeper into the properties of water. I then moved to Switzerland for a Post-Doc at the ETH-Z and University of Lugano (USI) after which I moved to ICTP in Trieste.”

Domitilla de Luca Bossa

Student

Domitilla is a first year student at the United World College of the Adriatic. She's seventeen and she comes from Italy. Passionate reader, she has built her communicative skills with nine years of drama courses and here experience in MUN. 
Interested in journalism and international relations, she is committed in the school blog/newspaper, the Adriatic Times. Particularly attentive to issues as equality and human rights, she has taken part to a summer volunteering training camp organised by the CSV Naples and has volunteered with associations that help refugees.

Ellen Henricson

Student

Ellen (Finland, UWCAD'17) a former member of Committee of the Youth Council in Porvoo city, Finland. She has worked as a news reporter and is a competition sailor, a hiker and a motorcycle rider. She speaks multiple languages and has played the guitar and base since before she started school. Through her experience with many varying groups of people, she has a very special insight when it comes to reaching and communicating with different types of personalities.

Jacques Pion

Photographer

Jacques is a French freelance photographer who trained at the Ecole Nationale Louis Lumière (1983). He is particularly interested in humanitarian and societal issues. At the heart of his approach is a close connection and dialogue with his subjects. Each of his photographs is the result of a meeting or an immersion period in which it tries to absorb the life and the circumstances of the people he meets. He has a strong empathy that is expressed both through his choice of subjects and in his intimate, direct and intense portrait work. It is especially through his publications and exhibitions that we are able to feel the intensity of his connection to his subjects. He received the title of the best portrait of the year 2013 awards with a photograph from his series, " African Visions" and the best Achitecture of the year 2015. He is the founder and member of the photo agency DALAM.

Jan Peloza

President of Alcohol Policy Youth Network

Jan is an engineer in computering and informatics and currently finishing his masters in social marketing with a focus on problematic gambling. He is the president of Alcohol Policy Youth Network and the funder of one of the most successful Slovenian non-governmental organizations, the Youth Network No Excuse Slovenia. Being a youth worker for the last 15 years, he contributed to the development of the European health promotion and health-advocacy sector, while at the same time as a trainer and facilitator helped young people to become socially engaged as organizers of many successful international events. As a co-establisher of Sustainaware – the global youth partnership for education on sustainable development and the European Environmental and Health Youth Coalition, he showed leadership towards a world free from fossil fuels, with a special interest in green washing – environmental misleading by big businesses.

Karina Lisboa Basund

Student

Karina is an 18-year old student currently studying in Italy at the United World College of the Adriatic. Growing up in Norway and being raised by her mother from Chile has from a young age given her a different view of the culture in which she grew up. This sparked her curiosity for cultural diversity and her desire to experience other parts of the world. After graduating from UWC in Italy she will spend eight months in Senegal doing voluntary work. Being a former member of the Youth Council of the City of Førde has made her understand the importance of integrating people in society, and nonetheless the effort it takes to do so. Later, at UWC, she discovered the importance of remaining receptive towards different points of view in building one's understanding of the world.

Nursima Nas

Student

Nursima is a second year student of the United World College of the Adriatic. She is eighteen years old and was born and grew up in Hamburg, Germany, but has Turkish origin. Her migrational background was, despite other inspirations, a motivation for two projects she was involved in: „Anti-discrimination“ and „I show you my Hamburg“ which both work together with students or young people in Hamburg aiming an intercultural dialogue between different individuals and groups in Society. She is a very talented student, she especially enjoys working creative. Besides her interest in arts she is also very passionate about music and has played the violin in several orchestras. She is very active in several charity organizations and attended several debates about religious and cultural diversity. She will talk about „images“ in our minds that were build by different environmental influences.

Sarah Denie

International Economist

Sarah is an international economist and educator with a drive for systemic change towards an ecologically and socially sustainable society. After obtaining her Masters in International & Development Economics she started her career in the financial industry. Soon she realised that the questions she held regarding: How to use money for the betterment of society? weren’t shared by most of her colleagues. She quit her job and became a researcher of (un)sustainable business practice for Dutch and international NGO’s. The industries she studied, and the recognition of their depressing patterns of ecological destruction and social inequality, made her return to the field of economics, in search for the source of the problems, as well as for solutions at the root of our values-system. Since then, Sarah has worked as a researcher, teacher, course developer and process facilitator for a variety of alternative and mainstream higher education programmes.

Steve Coughlin

English Literature and Theory of Knowledge Teacher

Steve teaches English and Theory of Knowledge courses at UWC Adriatic. He grew up in Montreal, Canada, and he lived, studied, and worked in a number of different places throughout the world before coming to Duino in 2015. He has spent much of his twenties working in outdoor education and studying both critical social theory and 19th and 20th century American Literature. His academic work has focused particularly on the novels of Herman Melville, William Faulkner, and Thomas Pynchon. Both as a student and as a teacher, he is most interested in exploring the distinctive ways through which literature and culture more generally can both restrict and make possible new forms of experience and new forms of relationships between real human individuals and communities. He is also interested in whales and humour. Over the past eight months he has had the great pleasure of teaching Homer, Joseph Conrad, and TS Eliot to UWC Adriatic students.