Frank Aleph Agrama is an artist, educator, and community builder focusing on therapeutic interdisciplinary approaches and social process.  Frank met Anthroposophy and the Youth Section walking into Elderberries 3Fold Cafe in Hollywood, and joined in weaving healing relationships across the city, country and planet, bridging diverse communities and organizing workshops and conferences in the streams of Anthroposophical Arts, Therapies and Social Ideals.  Frank serves as representative of the Youth Section for the North American Collegium of the School for Spiritual Science.  Currently he is creating performances integrating music, storytelling, movement and colored light, towards a living synthesis of the arts.

Gabel is an Artist and organizer based in Philmont, NY and originally from the Washington D.C. area. Currently, he is engaged in an artist residency at Free Columbia, using mediums of ceramics, music, and visual arts to explore questions surrounding the aesthetic qualities of form and atmosphere in relation to the non-material world. With a formal educational background in community development and work experience with the Schumacher Center for New Economics, he is continuing to expand from these foundations through a study of Goethe's phenomenology and Anthroposophic perspectives of the social organism and spiritual world. He is passionate about fire and wood-firing ceramics, speculative fiction, and folk music, and has been involved with Youth Section organizing beginning in 2024.

Soren is a musician and biography social arts enthusiast  living in New York State. He is currently working to develop a community supported, self directed, arts and music residency program at Free Columbia.  He spent his twenties learning to be a carpenter and playing saxophone and clarinet in bands in Duluth MN on the magnificent Lake Superior. Two years ago he followed his musical inspirations to the east where he met the Youth Section and started engaging as an organizer.

Berenika Lehrman teaches at the homeschool initiative Chrysalis, in Upstate New York. She is an aspiring performance artist, interested in and working with the Chekhov acting technique, dance, and clowning. She is currently in the Foundation year program for Goethean Science at the Nature Institute. She has been involved in organizing Youth Section activities for the past two years, and is passionate about creating spaces for young people to have meaningful encounters with each other.

Adeline grew up in Spring Valley, New York and graduated from Green Meadow Waldorf School in 2019.  Since then she has spent time traveling, as well as weaving through various higher education institutions, including Bard College Berlin and Thoreau College.  She is currently finishing up a degree in creative writing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  She cares a lot about poetry, Russian writers, and the process of self-creation. She has been active in youth section organizing work since the start of 2024 and is working to begin a youth section publication of young people’s original creative work.   

Lucy grew up right outside Detroit, Michigan, where she attended the Ann Arbor Waldorf school. She now spends her time in Philmont, New York where she has been farming for the past 4 years, both with vegetables, and currently with livestock. In addition to her love of farming, she enjoys functional art, ranging from fiber arts to woodworking and glass blowing, and she’s currently two years into her Waldorf Handwork Teacher Training. She has been involved with the North American Youth section for the past two years, and finds great joy in the creative and playful spaces that it facilitates.

Born in Los Angeles, Ezra moved to South America at the age of 18 to begin his adult life at the intersection of spirituality, humanity and the land. In Argentina, Ezra helped to manage El Peregrino Organico, a small farm based in a permaculture learning community. Following his return to the USA, Ezra engaged in the intentional community and principled non-violence spaces at Full Bloom Community in Oregon and The Possibility Alliance in Missouri. He then moved into the non-profit sector, directing Sunfield Biodynamic Farm and Waldorf School in Washington State for five years. After studying one year in Europe at the School of Spiritual Science, Ezra moved to Threefold Educational Foundation in New York State to engage with adult education programming, event planning and organizational transformation. Ezra aspires to create forms capable of hosting the future.

Iona is currently part of running and teaching at the Chrysalis Homeschool Initiative. She lives in Philmont, NY and outside of teaching she is furthering her own education through classes and study groups with other young people in the area.  She attended the Youth initiative program (YIP) and is interested in alternative education for children and young adults and is exploring questions of how education can meet the needs of human beings today. She has been part of organizing Youth Section activities since Spring of 2024.

Em is a storyteller and media maker from Philmont, NY. She’s an alum of NYU Gallatin, and also studied with the International School of Storytelling at Emerson College and at the Goetheanum Studium. Professionally she works in arts marketing and admin, and she has been involved in youth section organizing work in North America and globally since 2021. She likes to bake and take walks with her pup Clover. ☘️