Curriculum Vitae 

for

Stefania Strega-Scoz, Dip. Perm.

Intro

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Born: 10 march 1966 in Milano, Italia

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Telf. (0034) 922 40 01 33/ Mo. (0034) 697 590 185

skype: StefaniaStrega

Email - stella(at)finca-luna(dot)com

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Languages: English, Italian & Spanish (fluent, written and spoken)

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Due to parents' work I lived and went to school in Italy, Pakistan, the US, Checoslovakia, Hungary and then Britain (spending very little time in my parents' native Italy), and this I believe gave me a wide-based education together with a good understanding of how deeply language and cultural norms influence our thinking and world-view.

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Always close to Nature from very young, my main interests are and always have been science (how things work), crafts (making things) and social justice (community activism).     From 1994 these have combined into setting up and running community-based permaculture projects of all kinds, first in inner-city London then the Island of La Palma in the Canary Islands (where I moved to, more by chance than design, in the year 2000).

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From 1998 I developed a love and growing skills in ceramics, small-scale farming and permaculture research, which I intend to dedicate increasing time to as I slowly consolidate and then 'pass on' to our students the permaculture education committment I took after coming to Spain (where this was input was requested of me, as one of the few permaculture diplomats in the Country).

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Teaching Experience

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2004 - 2009 – Co-ordinator & Teacher of the 'Nodo Espiral España' of the Permaculture Academy (nodoespiral.net) - on average we teach between 4 and 6 PDCs per year, across Spain.

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2003 - 2009 - Co-ordinator of the Action-Learning Programme in Permaculture of Finca Luna, Canary Islands (aprendizajenaccion.pbwiki.com), a yearly full PDC on La Palma, Canary Islands followed by 3 to 5 months of practical design and maintenance of a working farm still being set up (lots still to design), visiting other farms also.

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2007 (Mar, Oct), 2008, Mar - speaker at the first, second and third Complementary Money Conferences in Spain.

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2007 - 2009 - development of spanish-language permaculture teaching materials as an 'online-book' comprising of many wikis to which permaculture activists can add their designs.  This has in the last year moved to developing audio materials: invited to do two series of radio programmes in 2009 which will be available as 'podcasts' (downloadable from the web): one directly on our Permaculture Course Curriculum and another on the Transition Movement.

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2004 - 2006 – various ceramics workshops (Creativity and Primitive Pottery) in La Palma

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2006, June – speaker, International PC Convergence, Croacia (lecture on the Chaordic Model which I believe is a very important model for the permaculture movement)

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2004, June – one of the tutors on the Summer PermaCulture Design School, British PermaCulture Association (www.permaculture.org.uk)

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1997 a 2000 – PC Design Teacher with Naturewise, a permaculture association in North London (taught parts of PDC on Urban Permacuture and Organization Structures)

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1999 - invited onto a Greater London Enterprise 'think-tank' about Community Economic Development (Community Regeneration) called by the new Blair UK Governament - educating policy-makers on successful grassroots permaculture activity in order to design new Gvt. policy on this issue. 

One of the results of this was the largest ever inner-city regeneration programme which inclued two significant innovations: the inclusion of complementary currencies and a firm commitment to real local community involvement in the design process (I was invited to apply for the post of Community Co-ordinator for this large project because of my track-record in getting both of these off the ground, but decided then to live in La Palma).

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1999, April -  speaker on a conference on Regeneration and Community Currencies organized by the Local Economy & Policy Unit of South Bank University London (about my experience of interfacing two complementary currency schemes).

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1996  a 1998 – invited speaker and workshop leader at various British conferences on Local Agenda 21, Urban Food Growing, Regeneration and Local Currencies (run by Sustainable London, South Bank University Local Economy Unit, Food for London, Southwark Council, Battersea Council)

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Education and Training

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2007, May. – International PC Convergence, Brasil (4 days) + PC projects Tour (10 days)

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2005, Sept.  – course on Agriculture Co-operatives, Universidad de Verano, Canarias (40 hours)

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2005, Jun. – International PC Convergence, Croacia (4 days)

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2005, Jan. - course on Innovation and Business, Cabildo de La Palma (50 hours)

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2004, Jul. – European PC Academy Convergence (5 days)

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2004, Jun. - European Conference on Complementary Currencies, Germany (4 days)

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2003, May  - course on Production and Conservation of Organic Seeds (30 hours)

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2002, Apr. - Beekeeping course (20 hours)

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2002, May - Canarian Pottery workshop (20 hours)

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1999 to 2001 – aprentice on 5 organic, biodinamic and traditional agriculture in La Palma

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1997 to 1996 - Certificate in Management of Small Business, Camden College London

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1996 – National Conference on Complementary Currencies, England (3 days)

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1995 to 1998 - several courses on management and administration of small business in London (sent by NGO I was director of)

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1998 – Diploma in Permaculture Design, British Permaculture Academy (on setting up and running PC projects from 1995)

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1994 – Second Permaculture Design Certificate with Andy Langford, London

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1994 – National Conference on Local Agenda 21 in London (3 days)

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1994 – First Permaculture Design Certificate with Steve Read, London

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1991 to 1994 - Design & Technology with Education and Computer Studies - degree course in Goldsmiths College, London University (took 3 yrs of 4yr course)

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1990 - Electronic Engineering course - North London College

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1987 to 1988 - Youthwork training course - Play Training Project, London

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1988 to 1989 - Construction tranining course (carpentry, bricklaying, plastering, plumbing)  - Camden College London, followed by work experience

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Professional Experience 

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2003 to 2008 – Founder and Co-ordinator of the  "Nodo Espiral España" of the Permaculture Academy, a collective of 6-10 permaculture practitioners all over Spain who get together to do introductory talks and teach courses wherever we are invited to.

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2001 to 2008 – Co-ordinator of Finca Luna, La Palma, Canaries: production and sale of organic vegetables, goat and chicken keeping, co-ordinating an action-learning programme on farm management (for young people), ciber-café on site, ceramics workshop, rural tourism, occasional community events and courses on site.

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2001 – organized monthly meetings of organic farmers in La Palma (with workshops, talks, seed interchange, LETS and a later a small publication)

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2000 – research work for the creation of a database on sustainability for the public (in spanish), employed by the Asociación de Educación Medioambiental Aire Libre.

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1999 - set up the first "Hour Bank" (community complementary currency) in Peckham, London, one of the first in the UK - a project of the New Economics Foundation.

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1999 - co-ordinated the set up of the "LETS International Café", one of the first community cafés in England (the first in London) to operate with a local complementary currency.

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1993 to 1999 - member and co-administrator of local community currency (the Southwark LETS in South London).

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1996 to 1999 - member of the management committee of Lets Link London (acting as connector of LETS schemes in London) and also on Lets Link UK (same thing for the UK)

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1994 to 1999 – founder and co-ordinator of Green Adventure, one of the first urban permaculture organizations in the UK, dedicated to community and local economy projects in the centre of London (www.finca-luna.com/GA).  From 1996 to 1998 we were awarded 5 awards for innovation and good practice, one of these was the "Regeneration Oscar"  for the UK (BURA Award of 1998).

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1988 to 1993 – member then president of the management committee of the Peckham Play Training Project, a charitable organization training people in youth work.

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1989 to 1992 – worked in Alistair Little Restaurant, London (first as kitchen assistant then was trained up as chef-du-partie and later sushi-chef)

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1987 to 1993 – Youth and play worker with various local authorities in South London - working with mostly excluded youth in sports, arts & crafts, trips, including design and set up of their play-grounds, education projects, etc.

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1985 to 1987 – self-employed as carpenter, builder and crafts-worker - doing small repair jobs for households in South London and selling at crafts markets and fairs.

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1985 to 1988 – member of the management committee of April Housing Co-op, London whilst working as accountants assistant and other office admin jobs.

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References

See main profile page (at the bottom)