Damaris Pietsch is the project manager and dialogue designer of Cultures of Welcome and works at the intersection of organizational development, systems change and cultivating collective change capacities needed to navigate complexity, uncertainty and rapid societal shifts. As a certified resilience facilitator and systemic coach & organisational development expert she supports leaders and cross-sector actors in developing future skills, organisational resilience and systemic coherence. Damaris works internationally in emerging crisis contexts and complex organizational transformation processes, creating learning architectures that strengthen not only individuals, but the systems they shape.

Sonita Mbah serves as the communications manager of Pocket Project and co-project manager of Cultures of Welcome. She is a passionate food grower, regenerative systems designer and skilled facilitator, born in Cameroon. She co-initiated the Bafut Ecovillage, an off-grid learning center in Northwest Cameroon, and served for over a decade as Administrator of Better World Cameroon. As Executive Secretary of the Global Ecovillage Network Africa, she brings regenerative community and social enterprise development to several African communities.  Sonita received the Gender Just Climate Solutions Award (2017) for pioneering climate smart technologies across several African countries. Driven by her passion for healing colonial trauma, Sonita took the Principles of Collective Trauma Healing course with Thomas Hübl. She is also the co-host of What is Collective Healing? podcast and 2 online summits reaching out to over 15.000 people globally.