JOHN DEER

More than 20 years ago Mr Deer, after being living in Jamaica and studying and working as a designer in the United States, decided to start using his own forces to make his dream come true: contributing to the empowerment of Jamaican identity through:

• knowledge  of the past,

• awareness of the present

• and  positive building of a shared vision of  future thanks to the appreciation of human artistic sensibility.

Since 20 years Mr Deer – an original rastafari -  is committed to research, restore, offer to the public contemplation and protect in an ecological ambience hundreds of objects both from Jamaica and the rest of the world, witnessing the contribution and influences that brought our nation to its contemporaneity.

RAMONA BAVASSANO

Is a free-lance consultant working since 25 years in developing projects and connections to facilitate sustainable development through culture and social innovation.

Thanks to a strong motivation to continuous change, a degree in Organizational Psychology and a Master in Business Administration, she has been involved as a Project Manager and as a trainer in hundreds of interventions supporting human resources and organizations in defining and achieving their goals.

In 2007 she has started to invest time and energ in volunteering around the world giving her contributions to improve skills and talents of committed people and groups in Mexico, Thailand, Argentina, India, Laos, and mainly Brazil.

In Brazil she founded in 2010 the Internatioal Network of consultants www.responsability.co, developing methodologies for social change and co-designed strategies for sustainable development such as www.corporatesocialforum.org.In 2012 she started to operate in Jamaica creating https://www.facebook.com/WelcomingVibes/?fref=ts, a Guest House and Cultural center in Treasure Beach, South Coast, with the aim to create community based tourism activities and to develop Jamadda ecovillage.

She has a huge passion for art, handicraft, natural architecture, conscious music and collaborative economy and is presently committed in making of Jamadda an inspiring place for everybody wishing to research and implement alternative sustainable life-styles by sharing skills and vibrant ideas ro create a better world.