Salon 90 SHE-EDE Ecovillage Design Education A Matriarchal Ecological Vision for The Great Turning Part 2

Sabina Santovetti is a 67 years old, mother, designer, artist, educatress, spiritual ecologist, in service to Mother Earth, the Goddess.

In the last 7 years she has abandoned her professional path of architecture where she ran a Boutique Architecture & Design Firm in Rome to devote herself to feminist spiritual ecological activism:

• being in activism for Extinction Rebellion;
• facilitating the Work that Reconnects and Community Building in the Transition Town Movement as a certified trainer;
• studying at the International Academy Hagia, Modern Matriarchal Studies with Heide Goettner-Abendroth
• and an M.A. in Ecological Design Thinking at Schumacher College in the U.K.;
• as well as re-thinking and embodying her life as a new journey of discovery, healing and dedicated commitment to develop new strategies of resilience
• to contrast 5000 years of women’s brutalization created by the patriarchal system.

Presently her eco-sophy and activism focuses on Matriarchal Feminism in the Movement MatriarchyNow! .She is the founder of Feminine Wisdom MatriCulture School in Narni, Italy where her programs She-EDE - Ecovillage Design Education are held since 2023.

Angela Cuevas Dolmetsch, Lawyer, honorary life president of the International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA). Mother of the Colombian gender quota law. Columnist for El País, Cali, Colombia. Hostess of the weekly TV program El Ágora, Charlas con Ángela in Telepacífico. Founder of the matriarchal eco-village Nashira. Author of several books: co-founded the global movement MATRIARCHY NOW.”

Angela Hagley is a Motherful collective member. She has served on the Matriarchs council, planning events for other single mamas. She works as a home visitor, bringing books and educational toys to new moms, helping them build their family library and coaching mom in her role as first and best teacher. She studied Fine arts photography, Graphic and Digital design, and Interactive Media Design. Dabbles in herbalism.

Nyakio Kaniu-Lake, Founding Director of Agatha Amani House. A shelter and farm for survivors of sexual and domestic violence in Naivasha, Kenya, where we steward the women's souls as we steward the land. I am also an anti-abuse activist and eco-feminist in the process of transforming the shelter into a matriarchal ecovillage.

Professionally Nyakio is a Counseling psychologist, with a masters in counseling psychology and an undergraduate degree in business management. I have certificates in Permaculture Design (PDC), Permaculture Train the Teacher (TtT), Ecovillage Design Education (EDE), She EDE, Natural Building and Emotional Permaculture training.

Rojda Yıldız, 32 years old. From Kurdistan. Graduated from Istanbul University with a degree in English Economics. Received a master's degree in sociology from Istanbul Bilgi University. An activist in the Kurdish women's Movement for over 10 years. Editor of Jineolojî magazine. Continues her work in Kurdistan in the field of women's liberation.