The Youth Section's team is made up of people from a variety of cultural and professional backgrounds. All of us are passionate to support young people who are actively questioning the role that their generation plays in the shaping of reality today and for the future.

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Nathaniel Williams (leader since January 2023) is the co-founder of Free Columbia with Laura Summer. He studied visual art and marionette theatre in Basel, Switzerland, graduating with a certificate in visual art from the neueKUNSTschule in 2002. He also received a PhD in Political Theory from the University at Albany. He is currently the director of the M.C. Richards Program in Philmont, New York.

Jacinta Gorchs (co-worker since February 2022) is 22 years old and from Buenos Aires, Argentina. She studied at the San Miguel Arcángel Waldorf School and in 2018 she took a gap year travelling around Europe where she participated in various anthroposophical initiatives and visited the Goetheanum for the first time. Back in Argentina in 2019, she went on to study Social Work at the UBA (University of Buenos Aires). After her experience in the year abroad, she decided to join the Anthroposophical Studies in Dornach from 2020 to 2021, then she studied for one year in the Rudolf Steiner Painting School and since August 2022 she is a student in the Waldorf Teachers Training (AfaP) in Dornach.

Gabriele Nys (co-worker since September 2022) is 19 years old and grew up near Leuven, Belgium. She attended the Waldorf School De Zonnewijzer from kindergarten till graduation in June 2021. Over the past 5 years, Gabriele had the chance to participate in a broad range of (international) youth conferences and projects, such as CONNECT Project in Hamburg (2019), Bundesschülertagung (2019), OberlinImpuls choir conferences and autumn conference (2020 and 2021), International Youth Camp from the Christian Community (2021), Cantare (2022),… In 2019, she volunteered at the Connect Conference in Zeist. She was part of the team for the International Students’ Conference at the Goetheanum in 2021. Gabriele is part of the organising team of the Junge Waldorf Philharmonie; an orchestra project for young people by young people. She moved to Dornach in the fall of 2021. Since September 2022, Gabriele is taking care of the Youth Section House.