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, 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.
Contact: @ceallii
Ariana Parra
Ariana Parra is from Venezuela. Her work weaves artistic practice with ethnic remembrance. As a visual and movement artist, she holds spaces rooted in Indigenous and Afro-diasporic traditions, honoring ancestral history through rhythm, storytelling, and communal sharing. She facilitates circles and community encounters that invite individuals to confront and integrate their multigenerational trauma, fostering reconnection with collective forms of care. Her practice is informed by Indigenous, African, and global ancestral knowledge systems. Ariana contributes to projects that seek to protect memory and foster collective healing. Her work stands as a powerful testament to art's capacity as a potent tool for social transformation, the empowerment of the most vulnerable communities, and the enduring strength of ethnic identity.
Contact: @arianaparra.art
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.
Contact: @jamabie
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.
Contact: @floracampello
Kankwana Canelos
Social communicator, radio broadcaster, journalist. Community engagement coordinator, facilitating meetings, workshops, and collaborations with Indigenous and non-Indigenous groups.
Her work focuses on the defense of the rights of women, children, and territories through local and regional media. With a solid background in radio, Kankwana has produced and collaborated in the creation of news, reports, and audiovisual content that reflect the reality of Indigenous peoples. Her work seeks to break the media blockade and ensure that the voices of her community are heard in decision-making spaces.
Kankwana currently promotes community engagement and multimedia storytelling as a key collaborator of mullu.tv, a digital platform made up of journalists, filmmakers, and Amazonian, Afro, and mestizo communicators for communication and digital rights.
Contact: @kankuanacanelos
Yanua Vargas
Social communicator, journalist, and multimedia creator. Community engagement coordinator, facilitating meetings and collaborations with Indigenous groups.
Her work focuses on raising awareness of the realities and challenges faced by Amazonian peoples, with a particular emphasis on the rights of Indigenous women and youth.
As a community filmmaker, she uses the power of audiovisual media to document and share the stories of her community, contributing to cultural preservation and the exposure of social issues. She is an active voice in the Pan-Amazonian Network of Women Communicators, an initiative in which women from the Amazon collaborate to build networks and amplify their messages.
Her commitment also extends to advocating for the rights of girls and women in the Amazon.
In addition, Yanua Vargas has collaborated with collectives such as the Digital Lancers of CONFENIAE, strengthening community communication in the territory and confronting media barriers to ensure that Indigenous voices are heard.
Contact: @vangstay.yanu
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.
Contact: @casya_transformativetherapy
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.
Contact: @paddybormann66
Team work & Partnerships
Our team and collaborators bring together vision, and dedication from around the world.
Working alongside partners like GARN, Conservation International, REFA, CINEFRONT and TINKU KOLLEKTIV, 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.
With sincere appreciation, we acknowledge the funding and collaboration from the German Diplomatic Missions:
• Embajada de la República Federal de Alemania - Quito
• Embaixada da República Federal da Alemanha - Brasilia
• Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany - Port of Spain
• Embajada de la República Federal de Alemania - La Paz
• Embajada de la República Federal de Alemania - Bogotá
• Embajada de la República Federal de Alemania - Caracas
• Deutsches Bundesministerium für Auswärtige Angelegenheiten
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.
