BACKGROUND
At the time, Louise Mohn was a single parent to three very young children—just one, two, and three years old. During this chapter of her life, she met Camilla Valdem through a parent-teacher organization (SU). As a committed parent representative deeply involved in the kindergarten, Camilla shared valuable insights on the importance of strong collaboration between home, school, sports, and cultural life. Her passion for building supportive environments for children deeply resonated with Louise and became a lasting source of inspiration and friendship.
Louise Mohn (Left) and Katya Mohn (Right)
In 2019, after relocating from Oslo to Bergen, Louise became increasingly aware of the challenges facing the local environment—particularly a concerning rise in youth crime affecting her community. These observations sparked deeper conversations with her sister-in-law, Katya Mohn, a single mother of three and Chair of the Board at the International School of Bergen (ISB). Katya brought with her a strong background in child development, adding depth and perspective to their shared concerns.
Living next door to each other and raising six young spirits together, the two sister-in-laws began shaping a framework—a set of guiding principles rooted in compassion for youth, community engagement, inclusion, and child wellbeing. This eventually laid the foundation for what is now known as the NextGen Neighbor Network.
Over the past two years, seven days a week, Louise has put her professional endeavors on hold and invested her time in identifying, validating and visualizing social capital within sports with the goal to shift the paradigm from financial to social capital, manifesting it as a building block of society. Louise and her team have created a social capital visual template that will be systematically implemented throughout Norway through a collaboration with NTG (Norges Toppidrettsgymnas). In addition, it can be adopted to enhance Corporate Social Responsibility around each NTG school, emphasizing the importance of sports, public health, and the direct benefit that super role model athletes have on youth.
Louise continues to speak out to the government, businesses, organizations, sports clubs, and private citizens encouraging them to step up in support of super role model athletes, with a key focus on female role model athletes.
The NextGen Neighbor Network mission has been to visualize the SUPER ROLE MODELS from sports and how they impact children in dual excellence, helping them master both school and sports. Louise is dedicated to highlighting how sport is a vehicle for inclusion, development, integration, diversity, and belonging—particularly for young girls.
