Rebecca Teclemariam - Mesbah

Rebecca’s main passion is to explore how spirituality, scientific knowledge and creativity can combine to help develop and build sustainable, plentiful and vibrant communities. With roots in Africa and Europe, she is keenly aware that the diversity of voices and inputs is vital to this process.

As a neuroscientist, educator, social scientist and artist, Rebecca has developed a unique experience through consulting, mentoring, administrating, and project management in a wide range of educational endeavours such as institutional growth and transformation, staff development, curriculum development, policy changes and advocacy for inclusion. As a mentor, she is dedicated to raising the capacity and building skills of young people to release their power in addressing the world’s social, economic and environmental issues and bringing social change.

Rebecca was born in Ethiopia where she spent her childhood and lived in Kenya, France, and the Netherlands. She resides in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, where she is engaged in numerous grass-roots programs aimed at raising human capacity to work towards a more just, united, and sustainable planet.