VIRGINIA
Building spaces for connection, remembrance and new futures
Virginia Scheele is founder of the GINI ecosystem and works at the intersection of identity, culture, heritage and human connection. Through travel, storytelling, dialogue and public initiatives, she creates spaces that explore belonging, cultural remembrance, systems change and the courage to build new ways of living and connecting.
Virginia brings a warm, sharp and grounded presence to conversations around identity, culture, entrepreneurship, systems change and human connection.
Public speaking & facilitation
Creating conversations that connect
Virginia moderates conversations, facilitates workshops and speaks publicly on themes connected to identity, systems change, cultural remembrance, entrepreneurship, belonging and regenerative futures.
Her approach combines storytelling, reflection, humour and honest dialogue while creating spaces where complexity becomes connection rather than division.
Virginia is available for: Moderation & panel hosting, public speaking & storytelling, workshops & masterclasses, community dialogues, cultural programming and strategic facilitation
What Virginia built
GINI
Over the past years, Virginia has built multiple ventures and initiatives, including cultural tour operating company GINI.travel, community impact initiatives through GINI.foundation and strategic partnership and consultancy work through GINI.services. Together, these projects form the wider GINI ecosystem.
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GINI travel
GINI.foundation
GINI Impact Foundation
GINI.services
GINI professional services
Speaking, moderation & collaborations
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Virginia is available for festivals, cultural institutions, NGOs, public organisations, schools, universities, community initiatives and impact-driven events.
Her work explores themes such as identity, belonging, cultural remembrance, female and diaspora entrepreneurship, systems change, regenerative futures and the ways people reconnect with themselves, each other and the histories that shape our world.
What you can book
Speaking & storytelling
Speaking & storytelling
Moderation & facilitation
Moderation & facilitation
Workshops & cultural programming
Workshops & cultural programming
Strategy & consultancy
Strategy & consultancy
Writing, audiobooks & storytelling
Author
Alongside building the GINI ecosystem, Virginia’s personal journey has also deeply shaped her writing.
Building mission-driven ventures and community initiatives came with significant personal sacrifices and periods of instability, forcing Virginia to rebuild parts of her life while continuing to carry the vision behind her work forward. These experiences, alongside a life shaped by moving between cultures, systems and identities, now form part of the foundation of her writing.
Virginia is currently writing Unrooted, the first part of a planned three-part autobiographical series exploring identity, belonging, inherited systems, resilience and the search for home and connection in a rapidly changing world.
Alongside these autobiographical works, she is also developing a dystopian fantasy series exploring themes such as power, collective memory, inequality, systems collapse and future-making.
Over the coming years, writing and audio storytelling will become an increasingly important part of her work alongside speaking, storytelling and building the GINI ecosystem.
The first book is currently expected around 2028.
Human connection
About Virginia Scheele
Virginia Scheele is a Dutch founder, storyteller and moderator with Indian, Afro-Surinamese and Dutch roots. Her work explores identity, migration, belonging, cultural remembrance and the ways people move between worlds, systems and communities.
Virginia holds a background in science, arts and business, which continues to shape her interdisciplinary approach to storytelling, systems thinking and community building.
Originally, Virginia dreamed of becoming a veterinarian, but her path eventually moved towards science, arts and business instead. This multidisciplinary background, combined with a lifelong connection to animals and nature, continues to shape her perspective on care, systems, storytelling and the world around her.
Her work combines strategy with storytelling, systems thinking with human connection and cultural reflection with practical execution.
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Speaking, moderation & collaborations
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Speaking & storytelling
Keynotes, public storytelling and talks exploring identity, belonging, entrepreneurship, cultural remembrance and regenerative futures.
Moderation & facilitation
Moderating panels, hosting conversations and facilitating meaningful dialogue around culture, systems change and community impact.
Workshops & cultural programming
Interactive workshops, masterclasses and cultural experiences combining storytelling, reflection, dialogue and practical insight.
Strategy & consultancy
Strategic thinking, programme development, partnerships, funding support and interim project work for organisations and impact-driven initiatives through GINI.services.
Speaking, moderation & strategic work
How to work with Virginia
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For speaking, moderation, storytelling, workshops, masterclasses and cultural programming around identity, cultural remembrance, systems change and human connection.
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For strategy, consultancy, funding, partnerships, programme development and interim support for organisations and impact-driven initiatives.
