Driven by practical idealism and self-reliance I am currently the driver of an urban gardening project in the backyard of the Mandril Cultural and Political Center. My academic background is a Liberal Arts bachelor degree and a master degree in Cultural Sociology, which I just completed at the start of this year (2016). Now my focus has shiften into the more concrete - "practice what you preach" - realm. I am driven by the realization that I, and other young people with me, often get stuck on theory and dreaming, while what we need is practice, doing and celebration! Holding spaces for this, both literally and methaphorically, is what I aim to do.