Charlie Moreno Romero

Council member for the European Democratic Education Community

Charlie Moreno Romero is a Colombian-born anthropologist and pedagogue based in Tallinn, Estonia. His PhD research studied democratic education from the perspective of educational efforts for social justice and inclusion at Universidad Autonoma de Madrid. During the last 22 years, he has worked in public, private and international schools and universities in Colombia, Estonia and Spain. In 2019, Charlie funded Estonia’s first democratic school (Suvemäe) within a public school (Tallinn Art Gymnasium), and worked there as the head of studies and subject teacher until June 2024. Additionally, he worked for Tallinn University of Technology’s Ragnar Nurkse Institute of Governance and Innovation researching the implementation of educational commons in order to promote inclusion and reverse exclusion.