As a Ulex core team member, Ella has been part of the project and based in Catalunya since 2008. Her formal education in International Relations and Forced Migration reinforced her commitment to spaces of praxis – leading to 10 years in the UK working with NGOs and community based groups in: advocacy for migrant communities; local engagement in national policy making; community mental health; and linking national education provision with community development initiatives. In Ulex her work is cross cutting: governance, evaluation, fundraising, partnership development and accompaniment as well as facilitation. She holds qualifications in coaching and systems psychodynamics accompaniment. Her training and facilitation experience has traversed formal certified training courses, multi-day residential courses, community focus groups, team and leadership accompaniment, and mental health support spaces. She has 30+ years’ experience of working in teams and has spent the last 18 years living and practicing transformative, solidarity based collaboration – which underpins her approach to collaborative methodologies. She’s committed to staying curious, and holds as her north star the potential in each of us to thrive and transform through interconnection. If she’s not at her desk, she’ll be out on the mountain somewhere.
