"The most significant change you can make is the change you make through what you love"
– Paul Watson
This is my .
From participating in high level mock conferences, leading a school-wide march, or connecting at a personal level with humanitarian causes, I bring a unique skillset to the table complimentary to my passions; with plenty of room to grow.
My many experiences, projects, and different learning journeys aid me in my ambition to make positive social, and environmental change through the things that I love doing.
Experiences
Model United Nations
Conferences for young leaders who wish to reshape the world. MUN has changed my interests, hobbies, and become my passion. My goal to work with the UN is one I've set and will achieve
Model United Nations
Model United Nations, are conferences done by students which model and follow real world topics being discussed by the UN right now.
Students are assigned UN committees (Economic and Social Council, Human Rights Council, etc.) and countries, and are expected to think critically in researching and learning more about their role.
Students activate themselves in conferences by debating, engaging as a collaborative to form resolutions, and attempting to come to agreement to solve problems.
Personifying your country and representing REAL opinions is the essence of MUN. It teaches you something you cannot learn in school, and this alone makes it truly special
Participating in more than half a dozen conferences, I've been able to represent a wide array of countries and hone my skills as a delegate greatly. Earning multiple best delegate awards and engaging in high level MUNs with top schools around the world, I have come far from where I started.
MUN is one of my passions, and the things that I have learnt are teachings which I will never forget.
India Service Trip
A school service trip that made me grow as a person. A volunteer community, personal growth workshops, and aiding at an AIDS orphanage all matured me physically and emotionally
India Service Trip
After a selection process of 15 applicants, we began preparing for the trip by fundraising ten thousand dollars in order to support the investment of new transport for Light Partnership, a home for orphaned kids with AIDS.
After team building beforehand, we set off to India and subsequently to Sadhana Forest, a vegan, down-to-earth place where the concept of “REAL community" could actually be felt and seen.
We worked as a collaborative, and cooperated with the rest of the volunteers there to do our part.
We also meditated in the Matrimandir, where my deep subconscious came forth and changed me, even if just a little bit, and after that we set off to Mahabalipuram, where we created pieces of self expression to reveal those buried feelings to the rest of the group.
Eventually we arrived at Light Partnership, where we made connections and truly bonded with each other. It was eye opening to listen to their stories.
After the service trip, we created a performance to explain each story, feeling, inside joke, and change we experienced on the trip to perform in front of the school; a physical reflection. It had short skits, comedy pieces, poems, rants, dancing, acting, and many other things that we used as a canvas to express ourselves.
It was a mind blowing trip that showed me the real meaning of community, embracing the environment, and working as a collaborative.
V-Day
V-Day is a global activist movement to end violence against women and girls celebrated on February 14th, and at Green School we perform Voices, our homage to the Vagina Monologue
V-Day
The "Voices" performance at the Green School is our version of Ensler's "Vagina Monologues" which highlights stories of violence and brings awareness to the problem.
As one of the first ever male cast members in the performance, I brought a new perspective to the table which sought to unite men to change their behaviours.
But besides the performance, Green School also engages its students in multiple workshops, discussions, and activities throughout V-Day, such as the V-Day dance which was something I led in 2022 and involved the whole school: coming together to dance for an end to violence.
GSSA
The GSSA, also know as the Green School Student Association is a student council built on the premise of giving students a voice in their learning to make education the best it can be
GSSA
Created by a group of students in 2018, the GSSA was a small body of High School students who wanted to enhance the Green School experience through student voice, and acted on several different levels to do so.
From creating student-led events to leading student forums, the GSSA steadily gained the approval of the school and became a core part of the community. Now, the GSSA has over fifteen members in High School and more in Middle School, and continues to improve the educational journey of students across the school.
I was one of the founding GSSA members; however I left only to come back two years later to become one of the Board Representatives.
The Board of Learners (BoL) meeting is a conference held between all the heads of school to discuss and formulate the enhancement of the Green School experience.
Becoming the medium of student voice at the BoL was my duty, and during my time, along with my co-representative Gusde, was able to aid the school in becoming the best version of itself.
We strategized problems, created solutions, and voiced concerns and suggestions from the Green School Community.
Projects
Ocean Uprise
As an intern for Parley, I spent 3 months cooperating with other young changemakers to create individual projects for a positive impact in the environment
Ocean Uprise
During my internship, I had the opportunity to meet, listen, and talk to multiple activists from around the world who were leading the march for solving social and environmental activists.
Leaders like, Paul Watson, Sarah Jeanne Royer, and the founder of Parley himself Cyrill Gutsch, who inspired the other interns and I to pursue our own projects to aid the cause of the ocean crisis.
Partaking as a co-leader, along with Ayu Suciati, we led a team of over 70 people on a trash walk for Bali's Biggest Cleanup day.
We also had workshops and events organised by us such as volleyball, coaster making from flip flops, bracelet making, and sunset watching after doing the cleanup.
We collected many bags of waste ranging from glass to straws to cigarette buds and even thrown away wiring.
We presented our work to each other at the end, and made an awareness campaign representing all our projects with Parley to spread our message to communities around the world.
S.O.A.P
SOAP is the Student Ocean Ambassador Program, created by Francis Mollet at Green School to form a group of ocean enthusiasts and make them advocates for our waters
S.O.A.P
As one of the first student members of SOAP, I was one of the many ambassadors charged with the responsibility to protect our oceans.
I participated in cleanups, created products from trash, and made sunscreen to sell at a stand during Green School's Farmer's Market.
A notable experience I had as a SOAP member was partaking in a class that taught special needs children from Matahari Terbit how to surf.
Over the course of six weeks, we spent hours at the beach teaching them how to surf, and the importance of our oceans.
We also did numerous trash walks with the Matahari children to encourage the birth of even more future ocean activists!
SOAP is a program that has become one of my life long commitments, and as I continue my journey through life, I will strive to advocate and represent the will of our waters in my own way.
Project Mahalo
An 8th grade capstone project where I took plastic waste from the beach and turned it into surf fins for surfers to use. To solve this problem, we all need to make steps, this was mine
Project Mahalo
It started with a gut wrenching feeling of paddling through the water on my surfboard and having to pass through mounds of plastic so disheartening that I knew I had to do something about it.
In 8th grade at the Green School, students create a capstone project that is based on their passions and how they can make an impact with them.
For my Quest, I decided to tackle the issue of ocean pollution, and I had to think outside the box how I could contribute to the solution.
I took bottlecaps, which can usually be found on the beach and are hard to recycle, and turned them into surf fins.
These fins would stand as a statement on how even a middle-schooler can have an impact when they want to.
Although the year ended with only a prototype, the project remains as something I passed down through SOAP (Student Ocean Ambassadors Program) and other, fresh and younger minds have continued perfecting these fins after my departure.
If you would like to learn more, click on this link below:
Project Mahalo - Tiago | Quest 2018 - YouTube
Malang Service Trip
A school trip to the coast of Malang city in Java where we camped at a national park which CMC (Clungup Mangrove Conservation) worked at and did service work for them
Malang Service Trip
Taking a bus ride from Bali, onto a ferry, and then halfway across Java to arrive in Malang took about eighteen hours, where we found ourselves at an empty beach owned by the CMC, an organization seeking to raise awareness about the mangroves in Malang whilst doing a multitude of other stuff; reef restoration, fishing sustainability, and more.
We camped, surfed, cooked, and worked during the four days we were there, and got to experience a mangrove's lifespan from start to finish.
We harvested, created seedlings, and planted mangroves for a whole day with mud up to our legs with the expert locals from Pantai Tiga Warna.
The other project we got to work on was when we activated as a team and built a whole new campfire/grill for the CMC from scratch, and had an awesome BBQ dinner with all the CMC crew to celebrate!
After CMC, we also got to stop by Mt Bromo, an active volcano in Java and hike in its sand dunes, and eventually up to its sulphurous crater.
Jembatan Budaya - Bridging Cultures
My 12th grade capstone journey, where I took initiative in becoming more "culturally conscious" and embarked on a journey to bridge the local–expat community in my school environment
Jembatan Budaya - Bridging Cultures
My 12th grade capstone journey, where I took initiative in becoming more "culturally conscious" and embarked on a journey to achieve my goal, and attempting to bring others to do the same
PROJECT MAHALO - PRESENTATION
ABOUT ME
I’m an 18 year old Brazilian third culture kid who’s lived his life immersed in sustainability. I grew up in an eco-village walking the talk of a sustainable lifestyle and advocating for social and environmental change in the way we live.
I have a fiery passion for sports, and a hunger for knowledge about our history, our world, and our environment. My love for surfing made me an ambassador for the ocean and the marine pollution problem.
I give my one hundred percent in everything I do and through the leadership skills that I have cultivated, bring others to do the same.
After witnessing (in person) part of the Amazon forest from where I lived burn down, I realized that I am in the center of the climate crisis, and became an activist because of it, raising awareness and campaigning for change.
Because of my love for learning, the ocean, and public speaking, I want to become an activist who creates positive change through my passions
Skill Set
- Leadership
- Communication
- Public Speaking
- People Management
- Adaptability
- Complex Problem Solving
- Creativity
- Environmental Awareness
- Sustainability
- Athleticism
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