Portuguese, graduated in Communication Design by IADE - Creative University, Lisbon. With a successful career as a Designer and Consultant for User Interface and Usability. In 2013, together with her husband, she decided to exchange her urban life in Lisbon for the tranquility of a remote village in Romania where she is a co-founder of Aurora Community, an educational center for sustainability, restorative and regenerative practices, and a residential community for an environmentally low-impact lifestyle. Aurora is a project located in the Western Romanian Carpathian Mountains, a region containing the last wildlife refuges in Europe and severely affected by deforestation. Witnessing deforestation so closely led her to found Association Terra Livre in 2014, an NGO with the mission to "buy to protect" threatened landscapes and to preserve them for present and future generations. Terra Livre has been serving as a reference and inspiration for Terra Agora Foundation. Since 2008, she has dedicated an essential part of her life to Vipassana meditation and its practice.

Grew up in a family that lived in numerous countries and continents with an english and american education and fluency in 5 languages. After graduating from UC Berkeley in Political Economy, he began his career in Africa as a volunteer with various development and aid agencies. He then trained as an investment banker, obtained an MBA at INSEAD, and became one of the first persons in Europe involved in private equity. In 2001 he floated an internet company on the AIM exchange in London and then from 2002 to 2009 built up a business in luxury rental homes. From 2011 to 2015 he was in Uruguay constructing social housing. Since 2016 he has been living in Portugal promoting the practise of mindfulness in schools. In 2019 he had a vision that led him to conceive of the Terra Agora Foundation. He lives in Tomar where he dedicates part of his time to growing vegetables.