At Passage, we believe in the power of community and lived experience. Our team is made up of dedicated volunteers and co-founders who understand the challenges families face — because we’re parents too. As a non-profit organisation offering parent-led support for parents, we’re here to guide, inform, and empower families navigating education and schooling in Luxembourg.
Lynn has lived in Luxembourg for 18 years. She has 2 children and an incredibly supportive husband. She has a BSc. in Psychology and a Masters in Applied Postive Psychology & Coaching Psychology. She has worked in the voluntary sector all her life either as a volunteer herself or managing, training and supervising volunteers. Previously she has been a Manager and Counsellor for national helplines in the UK. At present she is a freelance trainer and supervisor for Kanner Jugendtelefon, the national children’s and parent’s helpline services in Luxembourg.
She recently retrained to become a Coaching Psychologist and offers coaching for personal and professional development . She specialises in providing programs for adults with ADHD and parents of neurodivergent children.
As well as being a co-founder of Passage, she also volunteers as a fully trained Adult Leader for the International Scout Group Telstar.
Lynn enjoys getting messy with anything crafty and loves to sing, dance and get up to mischief on stage if anyone will let her !
Revathy is a full-time mom, part-time professional writer/editor and an all-time champion of empowered, informed and positive parenting. As an expat mom, the last 20 years of her life were spent moving to places where her husband’s job took her and as a result her two boys have had a taste of growing up in 5 different countries.
Revathy began her career as a journalist in India and moved to Romania soon after she had her first child. After a brief stint in Holland, she first came to Luxembourg in 2008. Her personal experiences of living and raising children in foreign lands with different cultures, have given her some insight into the challenges faced by so many international parents today. This was one of her motivations for starting Passage with Lynn and Mei in 2013. No sooner had Passage taken off in Luxembourg, she was required to travel once again, this time to Kazakhstan, with her husband and two boys.
After 6 years, a couple more countries, and many more experiences under her belt, she returned to Luxembourg in 2019 and has been continuing her work at Passage. She enjoys connecting with other parents and educators through the group, learning about and from their experiences and is committed to helping build a supportive and inclusive community in Luxembourg with a wealth of resources that everyone can tap into.
She continues to work as a freelance writing and editing professional and juggles her time between her job, Passage and her family, now complete with 2 dogs.
Mei’s professional background has always been in the creative and advertising industries and funnily enough a large proportion of her previous 14 years experience has been working for the children’s sector. She can also proudly boast to having designed a 930sqm kindergarten in Hong Kong, complete with pirate ship ball-pool, so surely that was a sign of things to come!
She moved to Luxembourg in 2003 – whilst heavily pregnant – and despite the difficult beginnings, she has since found a wonderful life here in her adopted country. Nowadays she is a mum to two spirited, loving children. However along the path of parenthood she has encountered many trials and tribulations. Consequently at the beginning of January 2013, she set up Passage with Lynn and Revathy, who both had similar ambitions to help and support other parents in need. This, she feels is the start of an incredible journey that she is blessed to share with her very understanding family.
In her spare time, she is happily volunteering with the Telstar Scouts and annually relishes the challenges of camping with the children, braving the elements like a real trooper! Likewise the same tenacity is still in evidence as she tries to master the French language, which is sadly continuing to elude her!
Melissa has lived in Luxembourg for eight years. She grew up in rural western United States. She earned an undergraduate degree in English and Spanish education, and a few years into teaching earned a masters in Special education. She is fascinated by the question about how one learns. She find things in Europe extraordinarily close together. Crossing country borders within minutes and experiencing the merging languages and cultures has been an unreal experience.
She loves sunshine and sky gazing. Gardens are where dreams are fostered and take shape. Active outdoorsy activities, she finds enjoyable. And what is even more cool about here is that Melissa can add the wonderful activities such as a shopping center, indoor pool, movie theater, or a nice restaurant without having to drive three hours.
Melissa devotes most of her time to her family of four children, volunteering at her local church, and learning how things work here — the education system, the clubs for kids, the languages etc. She is grateful for the help and perspective Passage has provided in this search and is happy to join their team.
Alex joined Passage in July 2024. She arrived in Luxembourg in 2022 from the UK with her husband, daughter and dog. Alex has an MA in language translation and loves practicing her French and German here in Luxembourg! Her main passion is working in the field of mental health and neurodiversity. Having suffered with severe anxiety and depression for most of her life, Alex now wants to use her life experiences to help others and to raise awareness.
Alex currently works for Dalza – a digital platform aimed at transforming the way we manage the care and support of neurodivergent children. Have a read of our articles which describe in more detail the wonderful work that Alex contributes to.
Veronica is originally from Uruguay and moved to the Netherlands in 2009. Since 2017, she has been living in Luxembourg with her husband and 14-year-old son.
She has a background in admin and secretarial work, but these days she focuses on being a full-time mom. Verónica volunteers with Passage Luxembourg and stays actively involved in her son’s school through the parents’ committee and discipline council.
Over the years, she has lived in several countries, including Italy, Ireland, and the Philippines, and speaks Spanish, English, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, and a bit of French.
In her free time, she loves traveling, watching movies and series, reading, kickboxing, and crocheting. She is also a big fan of nature, plants, Pinot Gris, and Doritos!
Lately, Verónica has become passionate about learning more about neurodivergence, especially ADHD. She is committed to supporting other parents navigating the challenges of raising kids with special educational needs.
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