Our Team
Aveen Colgan
Education Design & Partnerships
Aveen grew up in verdant countryside in Ireland, inspiring her curiosity and reverence for the natural world. She founded the Green Living Lab in 2015
to help students of all ages become informed, inspired and engaged citizens.
She has been a nature educator for seven years and designs interactive gardens for learning and community. She also works as a consultant for social impact organizations.
Aveen guides development of Green Living Lab programmes, partnerships and collaborations.
Joshua Glass
Education Design & Workshop Host
Joshua has been a nature explorer since his childhood fascination with frogs, snakes and salamanders in his home in Massachusetts, USA.
He is a gardener and a graduate of Interdisciplinary Arts, and education, participatory design and mindfulness inspire him as tools for growing social and ecological wellbeing.
Joshua helps develop Green Living Lab workshops and programmes for children and adolescents and hosts workshops on sensory awareness and participatory design.
Maggie Mulley
Education Design & Workshop Host
Maggie grew up in England and graduated from our Green Student Bootcamp Challenge programme in 2017. She has a Masters in Geo-Information Science from Wageningen University. She helps develop workshops and programmes and has co-hosted several online workshops for children 7-11 years, and sensory awareness and craft workshops for all ages.
Kristina Kalpaklieva
Creative Workshop Host
Kristina is a copywriter and amateur artist, with a passion for art therapy. She encourages playful curiosity in her 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.
Deeksha Sharma
Learning Support
Deeksha grew up in India and works as a software engineer in Amsterdam. She helps us with the development of interactive learning tools and provides training and support for our online workshops.
Gabi Figueiredo
Learning Support
Gabi is a psychologist from Brazil and she discovered the GLL while studying at the VU University Amsterdam. She completed the Green Student Bootcamp Challenge in 2018 and now helps to facilitate workshops and programmes.
Gabriela Dankova
Learning Support
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. She provides support for workshop facilitation.