Our Team
Here you will meet the hearts and hands that weave our narratives.
Behind AYELE stands a constellation of people guided by deep purpose, integrity, collective care,
and love for the Earth.
Each member carries a thread of this shared vision, offering their gifts in service of culture, healing, and collective transformation.
Together, we cultivate a practice of listening, remembering, and co-creating pathways toward a more just and interconnected future.
Selina Giorgio
Selina Giorgio is a documentary filmmaker and media designer focusing on environmental issues, Indigenous rights, and community media. With her film “YARKÁY – The Forgotten Voices of the Amazon,” she has participated in international festivals and events such as the Festival Internacional de Cine y Comunicación de los Pueblos Indígenas, the Festival Internacional Amazônida de Cinema de Fronteira, and FOSPA.
Founder of AYELE Projects, her work operates at the intersection of political, ecological, and spiritual themes, blending cinematic practice with a strong commitment to amplifying the voices of marginalized communities.
Instagram: @ceallii
Email: cealligiorgio@gmail.com
Janne Bierwirth
Janne Bierwirth is a Cologne-based student of Media Culture Studies and Anthropology, working through decolonial, Pan-African, and queer-feminist theories. Her work lives at the intersection of media, climate activism, and performance, guided by a deep desire to reconnect diasporic identities fractured by history. As an Afro-German who has long struggled to locate herself between worlds, she creates spaces where diasporic communities can meet, remember, and reclaim — spaces where identities can grow, heal, and collaborate across continents.
Instagram: @jamabie
Email: Janne.bierwirth@gmail.com
Flora Campello
Flora Campello is a mental health worker and multilingual communicator dedicated to amplifying voices, bridging cultures, and documenting the human experience. With a grounded, people-first approach, she works at the intersection of culture, community, and care, supporting individuals through compassionate listening and culturally aware practice.
She is currently part of Ayele Projects, where she contributes to storytelling and community-focused initiatives that celebrate identity, resilience, and connection. Guided by curiosity and empathy, Flora brings her lived experience, languages, and deep respect for others into everything she does.
Instagram: @Floracampello
Email: floracampello@gmail.com
Ariana Parra
Ariana Parra is a multidisciplinary artist from Venezuela, shaped by the resilience of the humble people she grew up with, and committed to uplifting the voices of marginalized communities. Her work weaves artistic practice with cultural remembrance. As a visual and movement artist, she creates and holds spaces rooted in Afro-diasporic traditions, honoring history through rhythm and storytelling. She facilitates circles and community encounters that invite people to return to the “tribe” and reconnect with collective forms of care.
Her work draws from Indigenous, African, and global ancestral knowledge systems, exploring the symbolic language of art as a pathway to collective healing.
Instagram: @arisartes
Email: arisartess@gmail.com
Casya Childers
Casya Childers is a trauma-informed group facilitator and psychotherapist. She worked for a decade in the Tibetan refugee community as Executive Director of Tibet Women’s Football, a powerful platform that gave rise to the Tibetan cause and shifted the gender paradigm of a nation. She is the founder of Healing Voices for Peace, a retreat program bridging the divides between people from global conflict zones. Casya guides transformational collective healing, weaving together science and spirituality. Community leader and facilitator, she creates spaces that help groups to release blocks, and move forward with clarity and alignment. Her work is a journey into the subconscious, where past experiences are transformed into understanding, growth, and the foundation for an empowered future.
Instagram: @casya_transformativetherapy
Email: cchilders@childerssir.com
Izabella Jamylle
Izabella is an Amazonian woman, ESG consultant, and regenerative strategist dedicated to integrating sustainability, consciousness, and human development. Founder of Inexo Verde and the creator of the Izartezen Method, she connects companies, communities, and public policies to generate real impact in the Amazon. She is also the creator of the Izartezen Method, which combines art, emotional intelligence, and communication to cultivate clarity, purpose, and authentic leadership.
Her work brings together human development, culture, and sustainability, building bridges between the private sector, local communities, and social movements. In collaboration with AYELE Projects, she empowers initiatives that amplify Indigenous and Afro-diasporic voices, promoting care, resilience, and eco-social justice. With sensitivity and vision, she guides processes where ancestral wisdom and contemporary innovation meet, sowing paths of transformation that honor life, territories, and the bonds that sustain us as humanity.
Instagram: @izabellajamylle_
Email: jamyllebastost@gmail.com
Patrick Bormann
Patrick Bormann is a political scientist and journalist who specializes in international relations and environmental policy. He believes that creating an interface between environmental protection, social work and strengthening the voice of marginalized groups is the only way to guarantee truly equitable coexistence, and this informs both his work and his activism.
Although he is from northern Germany, he has developed a very close emotional connection to Latin America. Having spent much of his life in Yucatán, Mexico, he now lives in Quito, Ecuador. This intense period has fostered his deep connection to nature.
He joined Ayele because he believes that men have had a decisive influence on world affairs, and thus on climate and environmental protection, for long enough, and that it is time for women to take on this role in order to create a more sustainable and socially just world.
Inatagram: @paddybormann66
Email: patrickbormann6@gmail.com
Team work & Partnerships
Our team and collaborators bring together vision, and dedication from around the world.
Working alongside partners like GARN, Conservation International, REFA and INEXO Verde, we combine knowledge from diverse fields; environmental science, Indigenous leadership, and cultural preservation. Together, we foster networks of care and shared action for a sustainable future.
We invite you to walk with us
We believe transformation is not built alone, but together, in community.
If you feel called to support, there is a place for you here.
Join us in co-creating spaces where memory is protected and collective healing becomes possible.
This is an invitation to belong.
To care.
To imagine and build, together,
As one.