Elena Boukouvala is an action researcher, dramatherapist (MA), psychologist, counsellor of children and young people (MA) and performance activist. She has worked with communities and taught internationally as an action researcher, therapist and community organizer focusing on integration and enacting citizenship processes through creative methods. She is founder and director of the international conference Play Perform Learn Grow that was created in 2017 in collaboration with young people and in response to the refugee crisis.