Our Tutors

Sonita Mbah serves as Communications Coordinator at The Pocket Project and holds a Masters in World Heritage Studies. She is a passionate food grower, Permaculture designer and facilitator. For over 10 years, she was the Administrator of Better World Cameroon and co-initiator of Bafut Ecovillage, an off-grid learning center North West of Cameroon. As Executive Secretary of the Global Ecovillage Network Africa, she brings regenerative community and social enterprise development to several African communities. In 2017, Sonita received the Gender Just Climate Solutions Award by the Women and Gender Constituency for empowering women on the earthen cook stove technology and in 2021, the One World Award for her work on fostering Organic / Agro-ecological practices within the Ecovillage Movement.

Sonita holds a Diploma of Applied Permaculture Design from the German Permaculture Academy. She is a trained Regenerative Development Practitioner and has taught Permaculture Design Courses (PDC), Ecovillage Design Education (EDE) and Permaculture Teachers Trainings (PTT) across more than 10 countries in Europe and Africa. Driven by her passion for healing colonial trauma, Sonita took the Principles of Collective Trauma Healing course with Thomas Hübl.