NOMADWAYS TEAM
Meet our core team, say hi to Alex, Hélène & Ilaria!
ALEXANDRA NIKOLOVA
Our Alexandra has been working in the fields of illustration, communication design, copywriting, digital communication and entrepreneurship during the last 14 years. She is a non-formal education trainer since 2014 when she started teaching about digital skills and all creative ways to do online marketing and business planning. Whilst working on Erasmus+ trainings, she also became quite excited to design and write such projects. Alex is a graduate in two bachelors: “History of Art” and “Art Education Theory and Practice” in the National Art Academy in Sofia and explores the possibilities of using art as an educational tool as well as an effective tool for communication, inclusion and self-development. She’s currently living in Brussels.
HÉLÈNE CAVAIGNAC
Our Hélène is a pedagogic artivist ! Indeed, for many years she worked as project Coordinator in NGOs involved in the non-formal education workshops and she has been a non formal education free-lance trainer for 5 years. Passionate about the performing arts (pantomime, clown, masks, impro, costume), she uses it as tools to develop critical thought to lead to empowerment. The exploration of new ways of learning is her keystone, she has developed original training courses based on self-directed training and learning experiences. Her involvement in European mobility programs for fifteen years led her to join the Nomadways team. She also works in the professional training field, where she gives sociology courses to social and youth workers.
ILARIA FRESA
Our Ilaria is a visual facilitator engaged to spread the use of visual language as a tool to support the learning processes. Her mission is to help people to explore their full potential and support groups to develop projects and focus on the implementation. As social researcher graduated in Political Science with a Master of Art in communication and sociology of Migration, she conducted a number of researches concerning gender and refugees’ empowerment - focused on financial education and family balance and savings - within European projects. As an expert in cooperative learning methods and visual facilitation, she designed supervised and coordinated several non-formal education trainings for Italian local institutions educational organisations international agencies and NGOs.