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Chateau Neuf
Slemdalsveien 15
Lillesalen
Oslo, Oslo, 0369
Norway

Adela Sánchez Askeland

Adela Askeland is passionate about empowerment, acknowledgement and intersectional equality and justice. Her work is related to empowering youth with tools for anti-discrimination/anti-racism, bias awareness and talent development. She is studying cross-cultural understanding, with an aim to bridge people from different backgrounds. Her background is rooted in law, dialogue pilot, and leadership. Currently, she is wrapping up a bachelor in religion, society and gender perspectives, and she is the vice president of the UN student association of Norway.

Alliance Victoire mUSANA

Alliance Victoire Musana was born in Rwanda and came to Norway with her Mom and sister in 2003. She debuted as a writer in the magazine VIBRO magazine in 2015. She is an animal rights activist, and the founder of Million Bright Minds Organisation, a non-profit organisation, where young people, engage and form development projects to create more inclusive and sustainable communities. She currently studies Economics at the University of Oslo

Aon Raza Naqvi

Aon Raza Naqvi (b.1989) is a writer from Larvik who now lives in Oslo, Norway. As a writer Aon has worked as a journalist in Norwegian media, creator in advertisement, artist in the former collective B.A.W.S and as a host/comedian in the Gullrute-nominated BroShow (NRK P3). He's also launching his new novel "Third Culture Kids" - which deals with the topic of growing up between cultures - which launched 6th of May 2019. In this anthology he is the author, editor and project-leader.

Danat Tekie

Danat Tekie is a young and engaged earthpreneur (the word earthpreneur means making sustainability business as usual). She is the Chief External Relations of the global organization, Young Sustainable Impact. It is a global organisation working to solve the sustainability challenges through entrepreneurship and innovation by gathering the smartest young minds from all over the world to create impact startups from scratch. Prior to YSI, Danat was part of building the organisation Future Leaders Global, which has become the biggest and fastest growing leadership program for youth in the Nordics. She is passionate about leadership and making sustainability business as usual

Hanan Abdelrahman

Hanan M. Abdelrahman has worked as a teacher for 14 years, both in elementary and middle-school as well as in adult education. Today, Hanan works as a lecturer in university college in mathematics and mathematics education at the university college Innlandet Campus Hamar and teaches MGLU 1.-7. class and holds courses. She is the founder and owner of 'Matematikkhjelperen' - a site dedicated to helping young people imagine math in new ways and improve their skills. In 2017 she won the Holmboe-prize - a prize given to teachers who have excelled in their work in teaching mathematics.

Hans Gerhard Meier

Hans Gerhard Meier is a teacher and artist living in Fredrikstad. His multi-disciplinary design background has opened up to a playful seriousness in his many side-projects, with the aim to engage the viewer and make the world a little bit better every day. Apart from studio time, he holds a position as assistant professor at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design.

Jonas Njau

Jonas Njau is a master’s student in International Relations at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU). Jonas is also Vice President of the university’s African student association and founder and director of Finesse, a consultancy firm within media and art. Prior to his involvement in the ‘Decolonizing the Academy’ movement in Norway, Jonas had been working with what he terms the ‘reclaiming of narratives’ through media and art in Tanzania.

Marie Synnøve Hellevang

Marie is 19 years old, and started University this January 2019. She has Asperger’s, which gives her a lot of recourses, according to herself. However, she cannot always use them, since the society is afraid of people that are different. Her plan is to become a linguist, and right now she is very interested in the syntactic aspect of languages. Yet, no language can cover all of her thoughts, which is probably why she at times do art. She draws and choreographs, and people seem to like what she creates. Marie's goal in life is to contribute to science, and to use art and other media to inspire people to think a bit differently

Merritt Moore

Merritt Moore is a quantum physicist and professional ballet dancer. She graduated with Magna Cum Laude Honors in physics from Harvard and graduated with a PhD in Atomic and Laser Physics from the University of Oxford. She has also pursued a professional ballet career with the Zurich Ballet, Boston Ballet, English National Ballet, and is currently dancing with Norwegian National Ballet. She was awarded Forbes 30 under 30, Michael von Clemm Fellowship, Suzanne Farrell Award at Harvard, and featured in "Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls" Vol 2. She was one of the 12 selected candidates, out of thousands of applicants, to undergo rigorous astronaut selection on BBC "Astronauts: Do you have what it takes?", and she continues to pursue the dream of becoming an astronaut, while pursuing a professional ballet and physics career.