Our Team

Founder

Nina Schmid is the founder and director of Move Forward. She went to the dance academy of the School of Performing Arts in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Nina uses dance to connect with people from all over the world. She gives dance workshops to refugees and teenagers in shelters for many years. Working with these teenagers made her create the Move Forward program, to uplift those who can use a positive experience in their lives.

Board of trustees

Maxi Hill is the president of the board, she has a professional background in dance and a lot of experience with creative youth projects. Claartje Ten Broek is the treasurer and her background is MSc Forensic Science and BSc Biology. Rosa Moed is the secretary of the board and was an attorney at Law and is a trainee judge.

Coaches

We work with a group of freelance professionals in dance, basketball and rap and social workers.

Producer

Large productions of Move Forward will be run by Loubna Fonseca, founder of MIM Productions.

Film and PR

Director Jon Karthaus creates with his company Johnnywood our trailers. Elena Mariska Jauregui from Elena PR is in charge of the publicity for Move Forward.