The Green Living Lab
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Our Team

Aveen Colgan
Aveen is founder of the Green Living Lab. She feels blessed to have grown up in beautiful countryside in Ireland. Her experience of and deep respect for the regenerative power of nature is the heart of her designs for the Green Living Lab’s education programmes and gardens.

Maggie Mulley
Maggie graduated from the Green Student Bootcamp Challenge 2017 and now develops GLL events. She grew up in England and has a Masters in Geo-Information Science from Wageningen University. Recent research on an ecosystem in Norway showed her the regenerative power of nature firsthand.

Gabi Figueiredo
Gabi is a psychologist exploring the power of nature connection to benefit mental health. From Brazil, she discovered the GLL while studying at the VU University Amsterdam. She completed the Green Student Bootcamp Challenge in 2018 and now helps us develop interactive learning tools.

Deeksha Sharma
Deeksha joined us in summer 2019 to help facilitate ‘Paradise Earth’: our regenerative culture programme held at the Tolhuistuin Amsterdam. She grew up in India and works as a software engineer in Amsterdam. She now helps us to develop interactive learning tools for all of our events.

Gabriela Dankova
Gabriela is a PhD candidate of molecular biology at the Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam. She grew up in a small village on the edge of a forest in the Czech Republic where she developed a strong bond with nature from an early age. She helps us with programme development and learning facilitation.

Kristina Kalpaklieva
Kristina is a copywriter and amateur artist, with a passion for art therapy. She encourages playful curiosity in all of her GLL creative workshops including art from nature and crafts from recycled materials. She has a Masters in Social Science from the VU University Amsterdam and hails from Bulgaria.