Rosanna brings an adult education perspective to the partnership with skills developed from working with international and Canadian non-profit organizations. Rosanna’s international and intercultural awareness, and practical experience in community development, team building, capacity development, project management and communications, comes from 20 years as executive director and staff of a diverse international development organization active in 25 countries. Before that Rosanna worked as the education director with several Canadian co-operative housing federations to assist people manage their own housing. Rosanna’s expertise includes developing curriculum, visual and written educational materials and communication tools such as annual reports, brochures and websites.

In her approach Rosanna uses participatory strategies to support local leaders, build teams, improve communication and networks, facilitate mutual learning to improve practice and help organizations and institutions find better ways to meet the needs of those they serve. Rosanna is a skilled group facilitator, education programmer, trainer of trainers, mentor, communicator and leader.

Rosanna is currently the part-time Communications Coordinator for Susila Dharma International Association and works as an on-line facilitator in the Certificate in International Development program at the Centre for Intercultural Communications at UBC.

Rosanna was born in South Africa, and as a child emigrated with her family from Denmark to Canada.
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Moussa currently works as a Human Rights Education Advisor for the University of Victoria where his focus is to enhance understanding of and commitment to the University's human rights and equity goals, through educational trainings and presentations. His duties include designing human rights education and diversity curriculum, and mediating human rights conflicts.

Moussa also works as an instructor and teaches courses in “Cultural Diversity: Managing disputes inside and outside Canada”, “Beyond Diversity & Human Rights: Creating inclusive spaces for social change", “Immigration & Refugees Studies: the Canadian context", and "Indigenous conflict resolution approaches" as a module in the course “Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Sub-Saharan Africa.”

Before joining UVic, Moussa worked with an immigrant service agency in Vancouver, coordinating integration and adaptation programs for immigrants and refugees in Canada.

Moussa has also worked extensively in the international field on post-conflict peacebuilding projects in three of the four continents.

Before immigrating to Canada, Moussa worked in the demilitarization field in post-Apartheid South Africa, specializing in conflict analysis/resolution and non-violence peace education curriculum design, training young adults in "alternatives to violence" conflict transformation skills.  Moussa  currently working on his PhD on social transformation and peace studies.

Moussa was born in Senegal (West Africa) and speaks many languages in addition to English and French.
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