Dana started a non-profit school in Latvia. Her teaching approach focuses on enabling students to be resourceful and succeed in real-life situations. Students are encouraged to take responsibility for their own development by planning their specific study topic. Learning outside school in other institutions and interacting with the community are also important components of her method, winning her and her team the Cesis municipality ‘Social Investment’ prize. Dana has been recognized as one of the Ten Outstanding Young Persons of Latvia in 2015 in the category of contribution to children, world peace and human rights. She is also a Reach for Change, Change leader in Latvia 2015, receiving their top prize. Her distinguish as a leader in education has also led her to be nominated as a TOP 50 teacher in the Global Teachers Prize.

Specialist in children and IT in a 360° view
Self taught geek since 1990
Trained as Waldorf/ Steiner Pedagogue
Educator since early 2000
First hand experience as female in Tech
Change Leader since 2015
Chairwoman and Founder of DigiPippi ((a club for girls which teaches them to find interest in technology)
Writer and soon to be author

Sofia Appelgren, is the Founder of Mitt Liv, which she established in 2008. Mitt Liv has chosen to work with a wide array of companies and organizations. As such, Mitt Liv, offers partnership programs to those who embrace the virtues of diversity and the importance of building bridges in the Swedish community. Over 1500 mentees and mentors have participated in the program since 2008. Sofia has been named Sweden's best social entrepreneur and is an accredited Ashoka Fellow. She was recently interviewed by Time Magazine as the representative of Sweden in their series on Next Generation Leaders.

In 2015 Mitt Liv in co-operation with the Innovation for Integration incubator of Reach For Change launched a mentorship program aiming to provide unaccompanied refugee Children with better conditions for pursuing higher education through knowledge, networks and inspiration.

Between 2006 and 2011, she was an award-winning journalist, known in Bulgaria for her work on human rights issues. Her mission was to convince the public on the benefits for us all from the social and economic inclusion of marginalized people.

She worked at Capital Weekly - the most trustworthy, serious and sober weekly newspaper in Bulgaria with the biggest circulation and highest readership. Meanwhile, Nikoleta was freelancing for European media outlets to speak-up for the breach of human rights issues in Bulgaria.

She was the co-author of several important research reports – Beginning and End of Pluralism in the Bulgarian Newspapers, Social Report on Alternative Social Services for People with Intellectual Challenges in Bulgaria and Jobs Boom in Bulgaria Leaves Roma Behind. Nikoleta was fellow of the Balkan Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence and one of the editor of Vice Bulgaria.

Her latest project - LoveGuide – it is an open & honest, short & simple, positive & friendly way of teaching teenagers anything they have to know about their sexual lives and health, love and relationships, so that they can be happy, safe and healthy. It’s effective sexual education for mainstream teenagers, employing comprehensive approach of online and face-to-face tools.

Teodor is a software engineer and entrepreneur, working in the fields of education and social justice. He's the founder of Vratsa Software Community, which aim is to offer challenging and well-paid jobs to the people of one of the poorest regions in Europe through quality IT education.

Giedre is a founder of e-platform www.Anksti.lt. Launched in July 2017, it is the first e-shop in Lithuania that offers a wide range of necessities and cutting-edge premature baby care products: extra small size diapers, clothes, feeding bottles, etc. This social business initiative aiming to provide efficient help for families of premature babies by developing in-depth informational package, consultations of experts as well as advice from experienced parents of preemies.

Giedre is a winner of Reach for Change Lithuania 2017 social entrepreneurship contest.

Antanas Bernatonis – Founder & President of Turing Students – Vilnius and International Business freshman bachelor student at Vilnius University. Having 4 years’ background in project management and sales, for the last 2 years Antanas worked with companies as well as with the events and projects for youth empowerment in the countryside. After the summer internship in New York at World Youth Alliance, an organization that works on promoting the dignity of the human person in bodies like United Nations and European Parliament, Antanas joined Turing Society team and now he helps people solve problems through technologies.

Ieva Daniunaite is a psychologist and the director of the programme “Childhood without Violence” carried out at the Centre for Child Support. For eleven years Ieva has been providing support for children and their families suffering from violence. With the other specialist she launched numerous programmes aiming at prevention of violence against children and providing support for the victims of violence. Ieva has been constantly leading trainings on this topic for specialists in different fields. Ieva Daniunaite is one of the organizers of the campaign launched at the end of 2016 “Protect Children Today”/”Childhood without Violence”. The aim of the campaign is to impose the prohibition of violence against children through awareness building and engaging in a dialogue with the public, specialists and politicians. The outcome of the campaign is the law prohibiting all forms of violence including corporal punishment adopted by the Seimas (The Parliament of the Republic of Lithuania) on 14 February 2017.

Hans Vindeland is the head of Reach for Change operations in Sweden. He has previously worked as political adviser to the Minister for Innovation Mikael Damberg, and joined the Reach for Change team from the role as Head of Strategy and Planning at Amnesty International in Sweden. Hans has previously worked with innovation issues both in Sweden and in Brussels and is educated in history and political science where he has a master's degree.

In Sweden, Hans and his team is currently pushing hard for a political change in the social innovation ecosystem. Just now they got the Government to inject 1,5 Billion Euro into the ecosystem and Reach for Change has now a leading role in creating the further of the Swedish ecosystem for social innovation.

Coordinator of LR President Dalia Grybauskaitė's nationwide social campaign “For A Safe Lithuania”

Meta is thirteen years old. She is growing in a huge family: she’s the second of the six children. Meta is dancing, playing some instruments, scouting for a long time. She thinks it is important to improve the children's world by developing appropriate and comprehensive values ​​and allowing the child to expose as a personality through different and unique ways of expression.

Egle Jokuzyte is one of the pioneers of social business in Lithuania, contributing to reducing the exclusion of people with visual impairment. She carries out various social projects and publishes books and other publications that are intended for the visually impaired and the blind. Having established a social business enterprise "Business or Art", Egle publishes unique books both in ordinary print and in Braille. She applies to illustrations for children's books and magazines a relief printing method so that children could “see” them through touching. These are interactive books that are read in different ways: through seeing, touching, hearing and scenting.

Egle's initiative to bring people closer to the visually impaired through sensing books has been awarded the Breakthrough of the Year Award at the National Equity and Diversity Awards in 2015. In 2017 she has also been awarded the Business Gene Award for Social Initiatives and the Development of Social Business. Egle Jokuzyte's books are well appreciated in Lithuania and abroad. Leonardo da Vinci's fairytale "Winged Letters" won "The Best of Book of 2015" nomination, while in 2016 the book was awarded "The Print of the Year” award.

Egle has also established the "I See it Differently" Charity and Support Foundation helping to fulfill dreams of blind and visually impaired children.

Edita Ziobiene is a lawyer and a child rights protection controller. Previously, she was a professor at the Faculty of Law, at Mykolas Romeris University. 2004-2010 she was the director of the Lithuanian Center for Human Rights.

Brothers Algirdas and Remigijus Gataveckai. Their parents were alcoholics; they experienced poverty and hunger; they used to live in social care centres for children. However strange it might sound, the brothers are proud of their story and recall only the best moments of life. They do not feel anger towards their parents who were not able to ensure normal childhood for them. Holders of the Medal for Merits to Lithuania and ambassadors of the President Dalia Grybauskaitė's campaign For a Safe Lithuania, the brothers from Alytus are well-known break dancers, organizers of social campaigns dedicated to children living in social care centres. In artistic circles they present themselves as autobiographers, social researchers and, of course, masters of realistic drawing.

Director of Educational Helpdesk of Raseiniai District, psychologist, coach, trainer of emotional intelligence, co-founder of the Lithuanian Association for Social Emotional Learning, member of the LASEL Council, co-author of the program for the development of emotional intelligence and social emotional competences, author of the training manual.

Ugnė Laurinavičiūtė- sixteen years old student. In free time she usually is dancing or painting. She is also interested in arts, she often goes to theatre, takes part in culture life of arts. Ugnė has always been interested in unique people, who aren’t afraid of being themselves and respect other people opinion. She thinks that it is possible to change children’s world by mentoring them with good quality’s values, just by letting a child express yourself, raising him as a personality, which will change and will be influenced by the people around him

Helen Nilsson – now she is the director of Nordic Council of Ministers, Lithuania. For ten years she worked for International Organization for Migration as program officer in Counter Trafficking Department (Geneva) and later as program manager and head of office at IOM office in Turkey. Before moving to Lithuania Helen Nilsson was Acting Head of the Department for Communication at the Swedish Institute.

Dance is for everyone! That‘s why we, the Low Air Dance School, are an open dance community consisting of professional teachers and choreographers, dancers, and dance lovers. Our work is being constantly created around the notions of community, respect and belief in each other. We believe that every dance show, every dance class and every dance battle creates opportunities for everyone to become better dancers, people and members of society.

To look for the meaning of Low Air, one has to search somewhere between the constant paradox (as if the Air could ever be Low) and the ever-existing thirst for experiencing and under-standing reality (as if there is never enough of Air). The first reference point is forcing us to live through the discrepancies, question the norms and ways of thinking; the second one insists on always feeling the urge to create, it ignites the constant search for meaning and at the same time it is a reminder that we all are merely small pieces of the never-ending quest for creativity.