Members

 Per Olsson (Sweden)

Mosaic Chair

Per has a dream of starting a hostel where people from all over the world can meet, plan projects and have their meetings while being on the road backpacking or just travelling. Like a huge self-organising open space meeting over time and cross borders. Meanwhile he work as a policy coordinator at the National Council of Swedish Youth Organisations, convinced that young peoples competences could be used a lot more in the development of society. He is occupied with watering his plants and dealing with the finances of his apartment building. And on thursdays he plays badminton. Moreover, he holds a seat in the board of Education in the City of Stockholm. He has been a member of the committee since 2002.

Enrico Quaroni (Italy)

Babsi Enko (Austria)

Full member - Training Manager

Babsi is living in Graz, Austria and spends her time being obsessed with music, reading, cooking and socializing. She is a Chemist and working on her PhD at the University of Technology. She likes the smell of basil, the colors of the park in fall, the sound of good rock music, the taste of blackberry icecream and the feeling of beach sand between her toes. Babsi is a member of the Mosaic Committee since 2002 and part of the training team.

Mariano Batalla (Costa Rica)

Full member - Educational Manager & Project Approval Commission

Born in Bordeaux, France he is currently studying Law at University of Costa Rica and Photography at Véritas University. Nano works as Legal Assistant at a Law Firm where he coordinates pro bono Project Management and creation of a Strategic Planning for community schools.

Federico Bertolani (Italy)

Full member - Training Team

Hello fella, My name is Ico and I'm part of the IMC Training team. Besides making me Mosaic addicted, CISV made me also have the chance to be Italian NJR and European Regional Coordinator. Fortunately CISV is not all i do - I'm soon completing my Master of Science in International Management and looking for a job. A real one that involves some sort of remuneration. In the meanwhile, I enjoy my life playing the guitar and singing very loud stupid CISVish songs. Kiss on the nose, Ico.

Marcos Tourinho (Brazil)

Coopted Member - Educational Development

Marcos was born in Salvador, Brazil, and is currently studying International Relations at the University of Lisbon in Portugal. He has been a Mosaic Committee member since 2001, and was International Junior Representative from 2006 to 2008.

Coopted Member - Support and Approval Development Team

Juanma is up for everything. Living in London for the past 6 months he came there just for English Studies and now that the experience is almost over the main idea of him being there was more than just that. However he is also a Law Student in Colombia wondering everyday and now how he can be not another lawyer by studying law. He probably had written this while going on a train from Stockholm to Copenhagen and not during his job time (which is at Mazala Zone as a waiter). He has been another member of the IMC since 2005.

Coopted Member - Approval Commission and Operational Relations Team

Pia was born in Lisbon, Portugal and is still in love with the city. She studies Dentistry, but spends most of her time wishing to be part of Grey's Anatomy cast. She also loves to read and would like to have a bike to ride to school. She has been a member of the IMC since 2007.

 Alex Neuman (Canada)

Coopted Member - Operational Relations

Alex has a fondness for things natural, nature, camping, camp, CISV, summertime, easy living, a challenge, scrabble, words, books, film adaptations, theatres, acting, make-believe, making puppets, the muppets, frogs and insects, dinosoars and museums of natural history. He is a student of history in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He also works as a french teacher and is currently setting up a new arts-education programme in local public schools. Alex plays on a soccer team called "the play impulse" and rides his bike most everywhere. His three-year-plan includes perfecting his Spanish and learning to play piano. He appreciates the tactful use of bolding in e-mails. Alex has been a member of the IMC since 2006. 

Chris Stokes (Australia)

Coopted Member - Website & Training Team

Chris lives in Canberra where he works for the Australian Agency for International Development, but he dreams of living in a cottage with solar panels, a horse, a vegetable garden, and lots and lots of books, in either Tasmania, Oregon or Antioquia. He likes beluga whales, books about Lebanon, Malian music, riding his bike, and cooking with pumpkin and feta cheese. He has a Masters degree in Peace and Conflict Studies and wants to learn Arabic, Swedish and New Guinea Pidgin. Chris has been a member of the committee since 2006.

David Kruse (USA)

Trainee - Support and Approval Development

David loves living in San Francisco and enjoys the challenges of working as a Curator at the San Francisco Botanical Garden.  He is working on a graduate degree in Botany and Plant Systematics at San Francisco State University.  He is most excited about his current work on developing a Southeast Asian Cloud Forest garden and hopes to travel to Vietnam in the next few years on some plant collecting expositions.  David is engaged to a wonderful man and hopes to get married this year now that he can legally do so in California!  His future will hopefully include having a family and opening a working artist studio where artists of many genres can come together to create and inspire one another.  He started working with the IMC in August of 2007.

Trainee - Communications Team
Kathy spends a lot of time imagining impossible things and dreaming up ways of achieving them. She likes to hang out at her community garden learning how to grow tomatoes and develop consensus decision-making skills. She likes trivia games, mangoes, avocadoes, and sarcastic books. She lives in Halifax where she is taking contemporary studies and political science. Kathy is in a band that mostly plays acoustic arrangements of rap songs and electronica. In the future Kathy wants to build a cottage by the sea, and work to institutionalize 'unconventional' education for children who need to grow up aware of a world they are expected to inherit. She joined the IMC in August of 2007.

Laura Mesquita Barbosa (Brazil)

Trainee - Training Team