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BERLIN FELLOWSHIP
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Table of Contents
About Humanity in Action 4
Happy Birthday, Berlin Fellowship! 5
Meet Our Founder 8
Code of Conduct 9
Ombudsperson 14
Fellowship 2021 15
Program Overview 16
Day-by-Day Agenda 17
Speakers International Program 35
Speakers Berlin Fellowship Program 45
Berlin Fellows 55
Fellowship Team 63
Berlin Team 66
Beyond the Fellowship - Action Projects 69
Contact 72
About Humanity in Action
Humanity in Action is an international organization that educates,
inspires, and connects emerging and established leaders committed
to promoting human rights, pluralism, and active citizenship in their
own communities and around the world. Since its founding more
than two decades ago, Humanity in Action has engaged over 2,500
young leaders in their 20s and 30s in a variety of educational human
rights programs in Europe and the United States. They now form a
unique international alumni community committed to social justice
and the advancement of minority rights.
Humanity in Action Germany is part of the transatlantic Humanity in
Action network with non-profit, non-partisan partner organizations in
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Denmark, the Netherlands, Poland, and the
United States.
Humanity in Action Germany is proud to partner with:
Goethe University Frankfurt/Main
Alfred Landecker Foundation
Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich's Project Team "For
Democracy"
Humanity in Action Germany is a member of:
Berlin branch of the association Paritätischer Wohlfahrtsverband
European Network – Countering Antisemitism through Education
Network Democracy and Human Rights Education in Europe
Together, we think about the big questions in life and society – like
social responsibility, values, universal rights and empathy, including
for those whom we disagree with.
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Happy Birthday, Berlin Fellowship!
Dear 2021 Fellows:
You are joining our community during a very special year. The Berlin
Fellowship turns twenty and we are happy to celebrate this occasion
with you. You are just starting your journey with us and we wish all of
us a Happy Birthday!
Dr. Judith Goldstein, a visionary historian from New York, founded
Humanity in Action in 1997 with the aim to empower future
generations to be active citizens, and to protect freedom,
democracy, human rights and minorities. Over the last 25 years,
students from the US and Europe have come together each year to
learn about the few bright spots of resistance, civil disobedience and
moral integrity in countries such as Denmark and the Netherlands
during the Nazi occupation.
Including the country of Nazi perpetrators into the slowly expanding
international Humanity in Action family in 2002 was a humbling
gesture. While Germany has come a long way since 1945,
democratic institutions here and elsewhere continue to be
threatened. The work of Humanity in Action is far from being done.
People everywhere need to reflect on the role and future of social
justice, democratic institutions, and the need to protect human and
minority rights. And fighting for democratic values, human rights,
and the rule of law is as important as ever before.
As such, we are proud of Humanity in Action Germany’s mix of
historical and contemporary educational programs. They promote a
spirit of personal engagement and open discussion, in which
everyone is able to express and share their experiences, thoughts,
and visions for a brighter future.
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All Humanity in Action Fellows have the chance to expand their
horizons and grow personally during our memorable programs and
conferences. Many of our alumni – and hopefully you will, too –
become public voices in their respective fields as activists,
intellectuals, business leaders, media representatives, in academia
or as civil society leaders. Regardless of their roles and positions,
Humanity in Action’s purpose is to create a community of societal
leaders and make a lasting impact on individuals who are committed
to personal development and improving the societies they live in.
Today, the Humanity in Action Senior Fellow community represents a
remarkable diversity – all united in their desire to learn, co-create,
grow and support each other across the globe. Our staff works
tirelessly to prepare the programs and facilitate safer spaces in
which our Fellows can meet to discuss and challenge each other.
They engage each other and our guest speakers with creativity,
passion, and knowledge.
We, the German Humanity in Action Board, are honored to be part of
Humanity in Action’s mission. Most of us have been where you are
now and have actively shaped the organization as Senior Fellows.
We are grateful to our donors, partners, staff, and Senior Fellows for
making this network such a unique community of friends.
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Dear Fellows: The Fellowship is only as good as what you make of it.
We wish you a meaningful and inspiring journey throughout the
month of June, filled with new knowledge and perspectives,
empathy and mindfulness, laughter and humor, and last but not least
new friends.
Yours ,
Henry Alt-Haaker, Chair (Berlin Fellowship 2005)
Anne Aulinger (Berlin Fellowship 2014)
Siddik Bakir (Berlin Fellowship 2005)
Lukas Goltermann, Treasurer (Diplomacy & Diversity Fellowship 2015)
Barbara Orth (Berlin Fellowship 2016)
Linnea Riensberg (Berlin Fellowship 2011)
Dr. Henriette Rytz, Vice-Chair (Berlin Fellowship 2005)
Dr. Klaus Scharioth (Ambassador rtd.)
Judith Scheer (Berlin Fellowship 2015)
Cornelia Schmalz-Jacobsen, Honorary Chair
Dr. Carolin Wiedemann (Berlin Fellowship 2010)
(Board of Humanity in Action Germany)
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Meet Our Founder
JUDITH S. GOLDSTEIN
Founder and Executive Director
Dr. Judith S. Goldstein received a Bachelors degree from
Cornell University in 1962 with a concentration on European
and American history. As a Woodrow Wilson Scholar at
Columbia University, she then studied for a Masters degree in
European history and wrote her thesis on the “Mouvement
Republicain Populaire and the Franco Vietnamese War,
1946-1954.” In 1972, Judith completed her doctoral studies at
Columbia University after writing her dissertation on “The Politics of
Ethnic Pressure: The American Jewish Committee Fight Against
Immigration Restriction: 1906-1917.” This work was the beginning of
a sustained concentration on immigration and diversity in America
and Europe. She then continued to work at Columbia University over
10 years by focusing on an oral history project on Ethnic Groups and
American Foreign Policy.
In the late 1980s, she began to write a book on the integration of
Jewish immigrants in Maine which William Morrow published in
1992. Subsequently, she worked as the Executive Director of Thanks
To Scandinavia, started by the Danish pianist Victor Borge to
acknowledge Scandinavians who resisted Nazism and protected
Jews during the Second World War. In 1997, Judith founded
Humanity in Action and began to serve as its Executive Director. She
also has an abiding interest in conservation and landscape design
and history, especially as it relates to Maine and Mt. Desert Island.
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Pre-Fellowship 2020
Code of Conduct
understand that different terms
mean different things in different
HUMANITY IN ACTION
contexts, languages and countries.
If you have any questions, please
Humanity in Action is committed to
ask for clarification.
providing a respectful environment
to all those involved in its programs.
Fellows, Senior Fellows, Staff,
Program Interns and Board Members
RESPECT FOR THE COMMUNITY
in all participating countries
(collectively, “Network Members”)
All Network Members approach
are ambassadors of Humanity in
each other with respect. The themes
Action and should demonstrate
presented during Humanity in
appropriate conduct in the programs
Action programs are challenging,
and in public during the duration of
often contested, highly complex and
Humanity in Action programs. This
potentially sensitive. Network
Code of Conduct describes
Members are expected to approach
Humanity in Action’s expectations
and engage in discussions with
for the behavior of its Network
respect, maturity, honesty, and an
Members throughout their
openness to explore their own
participation in the Fellowship
perspectives and those of others in
programs and all other network
ways that are constructive for each
activities. The envisioned purpose of
individual and the group.
this Code of Conduct is to promote a
constructive learning environment
for all Network Members, particularly
our Fellows. Guest speakers,
volunteers, freelancers and trainers RESPECT FOR GUEST
will also be informed about our SPEAKERS & TRAINERS
network’s Code of Conduct. The
Code of Conduct is not intended to Network Members approach guest
be comprehensive or to address all speakers and trainers with respect
possible applications of, or and with a desire to learn – even
exceptions to, Humanity in Action’s from guest speakers with whom
expectations, nor is it intended to in they strongly disagree. Humanity in
any way limit a Network Member’s Action does not assume that
rights to communicate with a Network Members will agree with
government agency, as provided for, all the viewpoints presented by all
protected under or warranted by guest speakers. Humanity in Action
applicable law. In addition, we encourages Network
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disagreements in a respectful and
constructive manner. ACTIVE PARTICIPATION,
ATTENDANCE & TIMELINESS
Network Members may attend
sessions during the programs that
Network Members are expected to
are sensitive in subject matter,
be active participants and to attend
confidential, or off-the-record. They
each scheduled session at the
agree to follow the requests of guest
designated times. Should a Network
speakers and the Staff regarding
Member need to arrive late, the
confidentiality, attribution,
Network Member should contact
recording/ photography and social
Staff in advance. Staff may excuse
media.
absences on a case-by-case basis.
RESPECT FOR HOSTS &
ACCOMMODATIONS DIVERSITY & INCLUSION
Network Members comport Humanity in Action believes in the
themselves in places of value of diversity and is committed
accommodation – whether hotels, to actively creating an environment
hostels, homestays or other where each Network Member feels
locations – with respect and comply empowered to learn, grow, and
with any associated rules or maximize their personal
standards of conduct. Non-Network contribution. Celebrating the
Members cannot stay overnight in similarities and differences that
any Humanity in Action-sponsored shape each of us is important and
accommodations without pre- will help spread our mission.
approval from Staff and, where
applicable, homestay hosts. If We promote an inclusive
placed in homestays, Network atmosphere and ensure that our
Members should be sensitive to Network Members are always
their hosts’ expectations and show treated with dignity and respect.
an openness and eagerness to get
to know the hosts and their family.
10 | HUMANITY IN ACTION | BERLIN FELLOWSHIP 2021 | #HIA2021NO DISCRIMINATION AND/OR pertain to these different contexts.
HARASSMENT & MAINTAINING Although misunderstandings may
CULTURAL SENSITIVITY occur Network Members should
always show respect and a
willingness to understand and work
Humanity in Action is committed to
through these differences both
providing an environment where
respectfully and constructively.
people are free from any form of
harassment, discrimination, abuse,
and retaliation. Network Members In addition, as noted above, sexual
are prohibited from harassing or harassment will not be tolerated
discriminating against another by Humanity in Action. For
Network Member on the basis of purposes of the Code of Conduct,
racial identifiers or race, color, sex, sexual harassment includes
religion, ethnicity, national origin, harassment on the basis of sex,
ancestry, citizenship, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity,
sexual orientation, gender identity
and the status of being
or expression, pregnancy,
transgender. Regardless of
marital/familial status, military or
whether it is unlawful in certain
veteran status, genetic information,
countries, sexual harassment is
cultural, social, political, economic
differences and/or any other
strictly prohibited by Humanity in
characteristic protected by Action, and this prohibition
applicable national, state or local. includes any unwelcome sexual
Network Members must maintain a advances, requests for sexual
program environment that promotes favors and other verbal, physical
mutual respect and dignity and that or visual conduct of a sexual
recognizes the various cultural, nature when any of the following
ethnic, and religious backgrounds occur:
of our Network Members. Our
program environment must remain Submission to such conduct is
free of all forms of discrimination, made either explicitly or implicitly
harassment and retaliation. a term or condition of an
individual’s employment or status
As such, Network Members are
in a program or activity;
expected to be cognizant of, and
Submission to, or rejection of,
sensitive to, differences in both
such conduct by an individual is
historical and contemporary
used as the basis for program
contexts. Network Members are also
expected to recognize that some of decisions affecting that individual;
the beliefs and behaviors could or
11 | HUMANITY IN ACTION | BERLIN FELLOWSHIP 2021 | #HIA2021Such conduct has the purpose or from developing a romantic or
effect of unreasonably interfering sexual relationship where there is
with an individual’s participation in an actual supervisor/subordinate
the network or of creating an relationship. To that end,
intimidating, hostile or offensive consensual personal relationships
program environment even if the between Fellows, volunteers or
complaining individual is not the freelancers and staff, Program
intended target of the sexual Interns or Board Members are
harassment. prohibited during program
participation. Other Network
A sexually harassing environment Members who engage in such
includes, but is not limited to, relationships must use their
words, signs, jokes, pranks, judgment and avoid the
intimidation or physical violence perception or fact of abuse of
which are of a sexual nature or power, undue advantage,
which are directed at an individual favoritism, or exploitation. Should
because of that individual’s sex. a consensual personal relationship
Sexual harassment may also no longer be consensual, the
consist of unwanted verbal or principles around sexual
physical advances, sexually harassment may apply.
explicit derogatory statements or
sexually discriminatory remarks.
Sexual harassment can occur
between any individuals,
NATIONAL AND LOCAL LAW
regardless of their sex or gender. A
harasser can be any Network
Member, guest speaker, trainers, All Network Members must follow
volunteers, freelancers and/ or the laws governing the countries,
other visitor. states, municipalities, and cities
where Humanity in Action activities
take place and are susceptible to
associated penalties for violations
of those laws.
PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS If any matter is referred to the
national authorities, it will be
In order to promote the efficient addressed in accordance with
operation of Humanity in Action applicable law.
and its mission, and to avoid
misunderstandings, complaints of
favoritism, abuse of power and
other problems of supervision,
security or morale, Humanity in
Action prohibits Network Members
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If a potential violation of the Code Humanity in Action will provide a
of Conduct occurs, Humanity in warning of a breach of the Code of
Action asks Network Members to Conduct to Network Members and
promptly inform a Program give them the opportunity to
Director, Program Manager and/or amend their behavior. Humanity in
Ombudsperson so Humanity in Action will address issues on a
Action can promptly and case-by-case basis. Serious
thoroughly review and respond breaches of the Code of Conduct
appropriately. Network Members could lead Humanity in Action to
who fail to comply with Humanity dismiss immediately a Network
in Action’s Code of Conduct may Member from a program and/or
be subject to penalties. When the Network at the individual’s
possible and appropriate, own expense.
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DR. CAROLIN WIEDEMANN
As in society at large, also in Humanity in Action’s educational
programs, and in other ventures of the Humanity in Action
community, situations that are in violation of the organization’s code
of conduct can arise. Humanity in Action Germany has established a
designated point of contact to serve members of the Humanity in
Action network, including the Fellows of this program, who
experience abusive, racist, sexist, homophobic, or other forms of
discriminatory behavior that emanate from other members of the
network. While Humanity in Action staff is at the Fellows’ full disposal
to support victims of any incidents of such kind, a designated board
member is additionally available via phone or e-mail as it might in
some situations be more comfortable to confide in someone who has
a greater distance from Humanity in Action programming or any
parties involved in such incidents.
Dr. Carolin Wiedemann is our Ombusdsperson, our designated point
of contact to serve members of the Humanity in Action network,
including Fellows of this program, who experience abusive, racist,
sexist, homophobic, or other forms of discriminatory behavior that
emanate from other members of the network.
She will listen closely to anyone affected and will advise on a
confidential basis. Where necessary, and only after consulting with
the affected person, the ombudsperson may choose to involve
another person from the Board of Directors and/or involve a
professional to work on the case.
>> Contact: mail@carolinwiedemann.com
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Program Overview
In light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the 2021 Humanity in Action
Fellowships take place virtually from June 1 to 23, 2021. Due to the virtual
nature of the program, we will start and end the Fellowship with the entire
cohort of 109 Fellows joining all Humanity in Action Fellowship programs in
Europe and the United States.
This year's Berlin Fellowship brings together twentythree carefully selected
university students and recent graduates from Europe and the United States to
explore historic and contemporary human rights issues in Germany. The Fellows
meet with activists, artists, experts, and policymakers to explore a variety of
human rights issues, including how and why individuals and societies, past and
present, have resisted intolerance and protected democratic values.
Below is an overview of the important dates for the 2021 Virtual Fellowship.
JUNE 1ST - JUNE 4TH 2021
INTERNATIONAL
GATHERING #1
10:00-14.00 (EDT)
16:00-20.00 (CEST)
JUNE 5TH - JUNE 20TH, 2021
BERLIN
FELLOWSHIP
PROGRAM
10:00-14.00 (EDT)
16:00-20:00 (CEST) JUNE 21ST - JUNE 23RD 2021
INTERNATIONAL
GATHERING #2
10:00-14.00 (EDT)
16:00-20.00 (CEST)
SEPTEMBER 2021 to SPRING 2022
ACTION PROJECT TRAININGS
& COMMUNITY MEETINGS
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June 1st Tuesday,
INTERNATIONAL GATHERING #1
>> CAUSING GOOD TROUBLE
Today we will kick off our 2021 We will learn from Senior Fellows how
Fellowship adventure as well as reflect they continued their civic activism and
on the past year and a half. These focus on the Black Lives Matter
months have been heavily impacted by movement, the fight for reproductive
the Corona pandemic in all our countries rights in Poland as well as countering
and have exacerbated and amplified Anti-Asian hate.
existing injustices.
>> AGENDA
10:00-11:30 (EDT) National Program
16:00-17:30 (CEST) Establish community guidelines and vision
Welcome on behalf of Humanity in Action Germany by
Henry Alt-Haaker (Chair of the Board, Humanity in Action
Germany)
11:30-11:45 Screen Break
17:30-17:45
11:45-12:00 Welcome - A Video Message from the
17:45-18:00 Senior Fellow Community
Welcome to the 2021 Fellowship Programs by Dr. Judith
S. Goldstein (Founder & Executive Director, Humanity in
Action)
12:05-13:20 Civic Engagement and Activism in Times
18:05-19:20 of Covid
Panel Discussion with Senior Fellows and Q&A Panelists:
# BLM, Sara Osman (2017 John Lewis Fellowship)
Protests in Poland on Reproductive Rights, Zuzanna
Krzątała (2019 Warsaw Fellowship)
Anti-Asian Hatred, Hoang Tran Hieu Hanh & June
Thalin Worm Gibba (both 2019 John Lewis Fellowship)
Moderated by Kali-Ahset Amen (Program Director, John
Lewis Fellowship Program)
13:20-13:30 Change of Meeting Rooms
19:20-19:30
13:30-14:00 Wrap-Up in National Programs
19:30-20:00
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June 2nd Wednesday,
INTERNATIONAL GATHERING #1
>> INTERSACTIONALITY, SOLIDARITY & ALLYSHIP
“There is no such thing as a single-issue Intersectionality and allyship are highly
struggle because we do not live single- interconnected. We wish for all of us to
issue lives.” learn from each other about those
connections. Sharing good activist
Audre Lorde practices, identifying and learning from
our own blindspots will guide the
conversations in breakout rooms.
>> AGENDA
10:00-11:00 (EDT) National Program
16:00-17:00 (CEST) Getting to Know Each Other: Bring an Object
11:00-11:15 Screen Break
17:00-17:15
11:15-11:45 Where is the Action in Humanity in Action?
17:15-17:45 Monika Mazur-Rafał (National Director, Humanity in Action
Poland)
11:50-12:50 Talking About Intersectionality
17:50-18:50 Prof. Nivedita Prasad (Alice Salomon University of
Applied Sciences, Berlin)
12:50-13:00 Screen Break
18:50-19:00
13:00-13:30 Solidarity and Allyship – Your Thoughts
19:00-19:30 and Experiences
Breakout Room Session
Facilitated by Lisa Ama Schrade (Program Director,
Humanity in Action Germany)
13:30-13:45 Debriefing
19:30-19:45
13:45-14:00 Wrap-Up
19:45-20:00
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June 3rd Thursday,
INTERNATIONAL GATHERING #1
>> COLONIALISM & IMPERIALISM
Colonialism and imperialism still impact
our global societies today. We will gain
insights into the Danish and Dutch
involvement from a historical
perspective, as well as learn about how
the past continues to shape
contemporary realities.
>> AGENDA
10:00-10:50 (EDT) Introduction & Intention Setting
16:00-16:50 (CEST) Kali-Ahset Amen (Program Director, John Lewis
Fellowship) and Raissa Biekman (Program Manager,
Humanity in Action The Netherlands)
10:50-11:00 Screen Break
16:50-17:00
11:00-11:55 Keynote: Inuit Culture and Resistance
17:00-17:55
Paninnguaq Lind Jensen (Traditional Practitioner of
Kakiornerit, Writer and Filmmaker)
11:55-12:00 Screen Break
17:55-18:00
12:00-12:55 Keynote: The Dutch Involvement in the
18:00-18:55 Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
Jennifer Tosch (Founder and CEO of the Black
Heritage Tours in Amsterdam & New York)
12:55-13:05 Screen Break
18:55-19:05
13:05-13:50 Reflection Session
19:05-19:50
Break-out Groups
13:50-14:00 Wrap-Up
19:50-20:00
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June 4th Friday,
INTERNATIONAL GATHERING #1
>> WORLD WAR II AND SHOA Thereafter we will expand the historic
exploration and work in breakout rooms
Today is dedicated to the Shoa. We will on a number of topics including
take a closer look at the history that remembrance, Jewish life in Europe
prompted Humanity in Action being today as well as Antisemitism. We will
founded in the late 1990s – the flight and close the day by learning more about
rescue of the Danish Jews in 1943. remembrance culture of the Shoah in
Germany today.
>> AGENDA
10:00-10:15 (EDT) Introduction to "Voices in the Void"
16:00-16:15 (CEST) Dr. Judith S. Goldstein (Founder & Executive Director,
Humanity in Action)
10:15-10:35 Film Screening "Voices in the Void"
16:15-16:35
10:35-10:45 Screen Break
16:35-16:45
10:45-11:30 Keynote: Conspiracy, Hatred and Violence –
16:45-17:30 Then and Now
Konstanty Gebert (Journalist, Speaker & Educator)
11:30-12:30 Discussions in Breakout Rooms
17:30-18:30 Politics of Memory or How to effectively raise awareness of young
people on the Holocaust?, Dr. Tomasz Cebulski (Landecker
Fellow 2020)
The Impact of Conspiracy Theory, Konstanty Gebert (Journalist)
Nationalism and Race, Dr. Judy Goldstein (Founder & CEO,
Humanity in Action)
Speaking truth to Power – the her.tiez Initiative, Alexander Busold
(Senior Fellow)
Jewish Youth Communities, Nitzan Menagem (Senior Fellow)
Art, Artists & Antisemitism, Emma Harjadi Herman (Senior Fellow)
12:30-12:45
18:30-18:45 Screen Break
12:45-13:45 Remembrance Culture in Germany – Its
18:45-19:45 Successes and Its Weaknesses
Prof. Mirjam Wenzel (Director Jewish Museum Frankfurt)
13:45-14:00
19:45-20:00 Wrap-Up
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June 7th Monday,
NATIONAL PROGRAM
>> INTRODUCTION TO THE GERMAN CONTEXT
09:45-10:00 (EDT) Optional Coffeehouse
15:45-16:00 (CEST)
Your space to chat, connect and reflect
10:00-10:30 Daily Check-In & Community News
16:00-16:30
10:30-11:00 Greetings from our Ombudsperson
16:30-17:00
Dr. Carolin Wiedemann (Journalist & Author | Humanity
in Action Board Member and Senior Fellow)
11:00-12:00 Creating International Conversations -
17:00-18:00 Introducing the German context
Barbara Orth (Research Associate, Free University
Berlin | Humanity in Action Board Member and Senior
Fellow)
12:00-12:30 Screen Break
18:00-18:30
12:30-13:45 Panel Discussion: Germany as a post-
18:30-19:45 migrant society
Christiana Bukalo (Founder, Statefree | 2020
Alfred Landecker Fellow)
Saad Malik (Consultant and Trainer | Humanity in
Action Senior Fellow)
Jasamin Ulfat (Lecturer, University of Duisburg-
Essen | Humanity in Action Senior Fellow)
13:45-14:00 Wrap-up of the Day
19:45-20:00
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June 8th Tuesday,
NATIONAL PROGRAM
>> HANAU AND NSU - INTERSECTIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON
RACISM AND RIGHT-WING TERROR
09:45-10:00 (EDT) Optional Coffeehouse
15:45-16:00 (CEST)
10:00-10:15 Daily Check-In & Community News
16:00-16:15
10:15-10:30 Fellows Talk: One year after Hanau
16:15-16:30
10:30-12:00 Converation: Education after Hanau -
16:30-18:00 Teaching to Remember
Walid Ahmed Khan Malik (Researcher and Policy
Adviser, the German Institute for Human Rights |
Humanity in Action Senior Fellow)
Mathusa Emmanuel (Student; Volunteer,
Bildungsinitiative Ferhat Unvar)
12:00-12:30 Screen Break
18:00-18:30
12:30-13:30 The NSU Complex
18:30-19:45
Bîşenk Sürgün Ergin (Democracy Trainer, Anne
Frank Educational Center, Frankfurt/M. | Humanity in
Action Senior Fellow)
13:30-14:00 Reflection and Wrap-up of the Day
19:30-20:00
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June 9th Wednesday,
NATIONAL PROGRAM
>> CLASSISM, (DIS)ABILITY AND MENTAL HEALTH
09:45-10:00 (EDT) Optional Coffeehouse
15:45-16:00 (CEST)
10:00-10:15 Daily Check-In & Community News
16:00-16:15
10:15-11:15 Class Matters! Capitalism and Class from a
16:15-17:15 Queerfeminist Perspective
Francis Seek (Anti-Discrimination Trainer and Author |
Humanity in Action Senior Fellow)
11:15-12:00 Fellow Pearls of Wisdom
17:15-18:00
Alicia Terrero - 11:15-11:30 (EDT) / 17:15-17:30 (CEST)
Matthew Fam - 11:30-11:45 (EDT) / 17:30-17:45 (CEST)
Sarah Horwitz - 11:45-12:00 (EDT) / 17:45-18:00 (CEST)
12:00-12:30 Screen Break
18:00-18:30
12:30-13:45 (Dis)ability, Politics and Human Rights in Times
18:30-19:45 of Covid-19
Frieder Kurbjeweit (Research Associate, German Institute
for Human Rights | Humanity in Action Senior Fellow)
13:45-14:00 Wrap-up of the Day
19:45-20:00
14:15-15:30 Optional: How We Experience Ableism: Personal
20:15-21:30 Practices of Resistance
Christine Kindler (PhD Student, Howard University | 2020
Humanity in Action Fellow)
Stacey Reimann (Civil Legal Advocate, Bronx Defenders |
2020 Humanity in Action Fellow)
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June 10th Thursday,
NATIONAL PROGRAM
>> (POST)COLONIALISM, STRUCTURAL RACISM AND CLIMATE
JUSTICE
08:45-09:45 (EDT) Optional: Yoga Moves
14:45-15:45 (CEST)
Kafilat Adeola Naomi Aderemi (Yoga Therapist |
Humanity in Action Senior Fellow)
09:45-10:00 Optional Coffeehouse with Adeola
15:45-16:00
10:00-10:15 Daily Check-In & Community News
16:00-16:15
10:15-11:00 Fellow Pearls of Wisdom
16:15-17:00
Ida Paraskeva - 10:15-10:30 (EDT) / 16:15-16:30 (CEST)
Liam Li - 10:30-10:45 (EDT) / 16:30-16:45 (CEST)
Fogha Mc Cornilius Refem - 10:45-11:00 (EDT) / 16:45-
17:00 (CEST)
11:00-12:00 Coloniality and Institutional Racism
17:00-18:00
Joshua Kwesi Aikins (Activist; Political Scientist,
Kassel University)
12:00-12:30 Screen Break
18:00-18:30
12:30-13:45 Anti-Racism and Climate Justice (TBC)
18:30-19:45
Tonny Nowshin (Climate Justive & Degrowth Activist
| Campaigner, 350.org)
13:45-14.00 Wrap-up of the Day
19:45-20:00
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June 11th
Friday,
NATIONAL AND
INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM
>> TIME FOR REFLECTION AND THINKING BEYOND THE BINARY
09:45-10:00 (EDT) Optional Coffeehouse
15:45-16:00 (CEST)
10:00-10:15 Daily Check-In & Community News
16:00-16:15
10:15-11:15 Fellow Pearls of Wisdom
16:15-17:15
Zhihan Chen - 10:15-10:30 (EDT) / 16:15-16:30 (CEST)
Lucas Schucht - 10:30-10:45 (EDT) / 16:30-16:45 (CEST)
Jiannan Shi - 10:45-11:00 (EDT) / 16:45-17:00 (CEST)
Mareen Brosinsky - 11:00-11:15 (EDT) / 17:00-17:15 (CEST)
11:15-12:00 Open space for discussion and reflection
17:15-18:00
12:00-12:30 Screen Break
18:00-18:30
International Program
12:30-14:00 Beyond the Gender Binary
18:30-20:00 (International program)
Alok Vaid-Menon (Writer and Performance Artist |
Humanity in Action Senior Fellow)
25 | HUMANITY IN ACTION | BERLIN FELLOWSHIP 2021 | #HIA2021DAY-BY-DAY AGENDA
June 14th Monday,
NATIONAL PROGRAM
>> DEMOCRACY AND CAMPAIGNING FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE
09:45-10:00 (EDT) Optional Coffeehouse
15:45-16:00 (CEST)
10:00-10:15 Daily Check-In & Community News
16:00-16:15
10:15-11:00 Fellow Pearls of Wisdom
16:15-17:00
Janine Röttgerkamp - 10:15-10:30 (EDT) / 16:15-16:30 (CEST)
Lea Kërçiku - 10:30-10:45 (EDT) / 16:30-16:45 (CEST)
Ehsan Allahyar Parsa - 10:45-11:00 (EDT) / 16:45-17:00
(CEST)
11:00-12:00 Welcome to Goethe University Frankfurt
17:00-18:00 & Lecture: Democracy and Conflict
Prof. Dr. Nicole Deitelhoff (Executive Director, Peace
Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF))
12:00-12:30 Screen Break
18:00-18:30
12:30-13:30 How to Initiate a Social Justice Campaign
18:30-19:30
Emine Aslan (Activist, Consultant and Trainer)
13:30-14:00 Reflection and Wrap-up of the Day
19:30-20:00
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June 15th Tuesday,
NATIONAL PROGRAM
>> RACISM, MEDIA AND TECHNOLOGY
08:45-09:45 (EDT) Optional: Meditation Session
14:45-15:45 (CEST)
Thy-Diep Ta (Meditation Teacher & Leadership
Coach)
09:45-10:00 Optional Coffeehouse
15:45-16:00
10:00-10:15 Daily Check-In & Community News
16:00-16:15
10:15-11:00 Fellow Pearls of Wisdom
16:15-17:00
Marque Pham - 10:15-10:30 (EDT) / 16:15-16:30 (CEST)
Amy Ndiaye Sow - 10:30-10:45 (EDT) / 16:30-16:45 (CEST)
Mneera Abdullah Saud - 10:45-11:00 (EDT) / 16:45-17:00
(CEST)
11:00-12:00 Racism, Media and Technology (TBC)
17:00-18:00
Nelly Y. Pinkrah (Research Associate; Lecturer; Writer
| Humanity in Action Senior Fellow)
12:00-12:30 Screen Break
18:00-18:30
12:30-13:30 Discriminating Algorithms
18:30-19:30
Dr. Nakeema Stefflbauer (Founder & CEO,
FrauenLoop)
13:30-14.00 Reflection and Wrap-up of the Day
19:30-20:00
27 | HUMANITY IN ACTION | BERLIN FELLOWSHIP 2021 | #HIA2021DAY-BY-DAY AGENDA
June 16th
RIGHT-WING POPULISM AND ANTISEMITISM THROUGH AN
INTERSECTIONAL LENS
28 | HUMANITY IN ACTION | BERLIN FELLOWSHIP 2021 | #HIA202112:30-13:00 Fellow Pearls of Wisdom
18:30-19:00 Brendan Schultz - 12:30-12:45 (EDT) / 18:30-18:45 (CEST)
Ermira Berisha - 12:45-13:00 (EDT) / 18:45-19:00 (CEST)
13:00-14:00 An Intersectional Critique of Antisemitism
19:00-20:00 Ina Holev (Co-Founder, Jüdisch & Intersektional)
Miriam Yosef (Co-Founder, Jüdisch & Intersektional |
Humanity in Action Senior Fellow)
14:00-14:15 Wrap-up of the Day
20:00-20:15
29 | HUMANITY IN ACTION | BERLIN FELLOWSHIP 2021 | #HIA2021DAY-BY-DAY AGENDA
June 17th Thursday,
NATIONAL PROGRAM
>> RECKONING WITH THE PAST
09:45-10:00 (EDT)
15:45-16:00 (CEST) Optional Coffeehouse
10:00-10:15
16:00-16:15 Daily Check-In & Community News
10:15-10:45 Fellow Pearls of Wisdom
16:15-16:45
Celine Cojocar - 10:15-10:30 (EDT) / 16:15-16:30 (CEST)
Alexandra Claman - 10:30-10:45 (EDT) / 16:30-16:45 (CEST)
10:45-12:00 How to (not) talk about violent pasts
16:45-18:00
Sinthujan Varatharajah (Essayist and Political Geographer)
12:00-12.30 Screen Break
18:00-18:30
12:30-13:30 Sinti and Roma History and Activism
18:30-19:30
TBC
13:30-14:00 Reflection and Wrap-up of the Day
19:30-20:00
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June 18th Friday,
NATIONAL PROGRAM
>> MONUMENTS, MUSEUMS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
09:45-10:00 (EDT) Optional Coffeehouse
15:45-16:00 (CEST)
10:00-10:15 Daily Check-In & Community News
16:00-16:15
10:15-11:00 Open Space for Discussion and Reflection
16:15-17:00
11:00-12:00 Museums and Social Justice in Germany
17:00-18:00
Gülay Gün (Consultant, Ministry of Culture and Sport
Hamburg | Humanity in Action Senior Fellow)
12:00-12.30 Screen Break
18:00-18:30
12:30-13:30 Social Movements Dealing with Controversial
18:30-19:30 Monuments
Prof. Dr. Nivedita Prasad (Professor, Alice Salomon
University of Applied Sciences)
13:30-14:00 Reflection and Wrap-up of the Day
19:30-20:00
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June 21st Monday,
INTERNATIONAL GATHERING #2
>> COUNTRY PRESENTATIONS -
LESSONS LEARNED you’ve learned, discussed, been
frustrated with, rejoiced over for the past
The 2021 Humanity in Action three weeks. This is your time to show
Fellowships are drawing to a close. But and tell (and show off). We will dive into
this is not a goodbye. It’s welcome to the our Action Project Labs and what you
network. It’s time to look ahead! The can expect from the fall and winter
three coming days mark the beginning of sessions. Finally, on June 23, we will end
the Action Project period and your future this first intense part of your year-long
engagement as members of our fellowship engagement in a celebratory
community. We will embark on this fashion. Let the real change-making
journey together by recapping what begin!
>> AGENDA
10:00-10:15 (EDT) International Gathering #2: Welcome Back!
16:00-16:15 (CEST)
Raissa Biekman (Program Manager, Humanity in
Action The Netherlands)
10:15-11:15 Country Presentations
16:15-17:15 Fellows from the Amsterdam, Berlin, Sarajevo, and
Warsaw Fellowships share their lessons learned from
the past weeks
11:15-11:30 Screen Break
17:15-17:30
11:30-12.45 Lessons Learned - Lessons Passed On
17:30-18:45 Breakout Sessions
12:45-13:00 Screen Break
18:45-19:00
13:00-14:00 Wrap-up in National Program
19:00-20:00
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June 22nd Tuesday,
INTERNATIONAL GATHERING #2
>> ACTION PROJECTS - ROAD MAP
10:00-10:30 (EDT) Action Projects - Road Map
16:00-16:30 (CEST) Mikaela v. Freiesleben (National Director, Humanity in
Action Denmark) & Zuzanna Krzatala (Projects
Coordinator, Humanity in Action Poland)
10:30-11:45 Action Projects in the Making: Creating Change!
16:30-17:45 Fellows and Senior Fellows share their Action Projects
Yannik Roscher (Humanity in Action Senior Fellow, 2002
Berlin Fellowship) - TBC
Kerim Hodžić (Humanity in Action Senior Fellow, 2020 John
Lewis Fellowship)
Maya Szydłowska & Katarzyna Korytowska (Humanity in
Action Senior Fellows, 2018 Berlin Fellowship)
Lucia Harcegova (Humanity in Action Fellow, 2020
Copenhagen Fellowship)
Marissa Scheiderman (Humanity in Action Senior Fellow,
2009 Copenhagen Fellowship) - TBC
Lecyca Curiel & Lisa Nussy (Humanity in Action Senior
Fellows, 2019 Amsterdam Fellowship)
11:45-12:00 Screen Break
17:45-18:00
12:00-13:30 Activism in the past, present and future -
18:00-19:30 Activism in a Global Health Crisis: A historical,
legal and practical approach to activism
Panelists:
Cassandra Veney (PhD, Department Chair & Professor,
United States International University Africa)
Rodolfo Coutinho Marques (PhD Candidate & Assistant
Professor, Graduate Institute (IHEID), Geneva)
Disha Ravi (Activist and Founder of ‘Fridays for Future’ -
India) - TBC
An Action Project by Aastha KC and Kush Raithatha (Humanity
in Action Fellows, 2020 Copenhagen)
13:30-14:00 Action Project Expectations and Concerns
19:30-20:00 Breakout Sessions
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June 23rd Wednesday,
INTERNATIONAL GATHERING #2
>> THIS IS NOT A GOODBYE - LOOKING AHEAD
10:00-10:15 (EDT) Looking Ahead: Where Do We Go From Here?
16:00-16:15 (CEST) Laura Lasance (National Director, Humanity in Action
The Netherlands)
10:15-11:00 Speed Dating I & II
16:10-17:00
11:00-11:15 Musical Performance
17:00-17:15 Gilberto Morishaw (Humanity in Action Senior Fellow,
2019 John Lewis Fellowship)
11:15-12:15 Looking Ahead: Inclusive Leadership
17:15-18:15 Rev. Cornell Brooks (Professor, Harvard Kennedy School
| Member of the Humanity in Action Board of Directors)
12:15-12:30 Screen Break
18:15-18:30
12:30-12:45 Spoken Word Performance
18:30-18:45 Sarah Rahmeh (Poet, Writer, Author) - TBC
12:45-13:00 Looking Ahead: Let the Change-Making Begin!
18:45-19:00 Dr. Judith S. Goldstein (Founder & Executive Director,
Humanity in Action)
13:00-14:00 Goodbyes For Now - and See You Soon - in the
19:00-20:00 National Programs
34 | HUMANITY IN ACTION | BERLIN FELLOWSHIP 2021 | #HIA2021SPEAKERS INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM
DR. KALI-AHSET
AMEN
PROF. DR.
CORNELL BROOKS
ALEXANDER
BUSOLD
36 | HUMANITY IN ACTION | BERLIN FELLOWSHIP 2021 | #HIA2021PROF. DR. VENEY
interpretation center POLIN TRAVEL
CASSANDRA (www.jewish-guide.pl). It focuses and morphs
Professor & Chair of the history genealogy and guiding into a holistic
Department of visit experience in Central Europe. Tomasz
International Relations at holds multiple state guiding certificates at the
the United States Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, Kraków,
International University -
and Galicia including the Second World War
Africa.
Museum at Schindler’s Factory in Kraków,
Veney is a Professor and Chair of the Polin Museum in Warsaw. He is an
Department of International Relations at the experienced genealogist and licensed tour
United States International University - Africa leader in Poland and Central Europe.
(USIU-A). Prior to joining USIU-Africa, she was Cebulski is an author of multiple articles on
a professor in the Department of Politics and the history of Polish Jews, genealogy, and
Philosophy at Quinnipiac University, Hamden, politics of memory. Cebulski is the author of
Connecticut. She has also taught at the the book, “Auschwitz after Auschwitz. History,
University of Illinois-Chicago, Illinois State memory, politics.” The book debates the
University, The Pennsylvania State University, dynamic of construction of the Holocaust
and Loyola Marymount University. memory, provides an insight into the
Some of her known publications include: The Auschwitz Museum through analyzing the
Effects of Immigration and Refugee Policies politics of commemoration and conflict
on Africans in the United States: From the Civil resolution a the side in the last 3 decades. In
Rights Movement to the War on Terrorism, in 2020 Tomasz established a new visual
The New African Diaspora. project SKY HERITAGE PICTURES to present
historical sites from a new drone vantage
point. He also established the TEEN FLYING
UNIVERSITY to promote education for Polish
youth based on teaching values of social
DR. TOMASZ
diversity, democracy and history awareness.
CEBULSKI Within the project, local sites of memory are
Genealogist and being discovered, taken care of and
interpreted for the sake of awareness and
licensed tour leader in
education.
Poland and Central
Europe, Landecker
Fellow 2020 LECYCA CURIEL
Humanity in Action Senior
Born in Kraków, graduated with his first MA in
Fellow
International Relations from Jagiellonian
University, Kraków, with a thesis on “Polish-
Israeli Relations after 1989.” His second MA
was at the Jagiellonian University in the Building bridges between the corporate world
Department of Middle and Far East Studies and her own generation, Lecyca Curiel
with a thesis on “The Role of the Holocaust currently works as a Generation Z keynote
Memory in Shaping Israeli Identity.” In speaker for international think thank
October 2014, he received his Ph.D. from the WHETSTON. This year she has started her
Department of Political Relations at academic career at Erasmus University
Jagiellonian University, with a dissertation on College, which led her to aspire a bachelor’s
“Political and International Aspects of the in Cultural Anthropology in 2019. On Sundays,
Functioning of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State she teaches children from underprivileged
Museum in the years 1980-2010.” In 2000 he neighborhoods at the IMC Weekendschool. In
founded a research and historical 2016, Lecyca was offered a scholarship for the
37 | HUMANITY IN ACTION | BERLIN FELLOWSHIP 2021 | #HIA2021Women2Women conference in Boston, where to Wall;” in: Sabrina P. Ramet, Christine M.
she has been an annual intern thereafter. Hassenstab (Eds): Central and Southeast
Lecyca has Indonesian and Dutch Caribbean European Politics Since 1989, 2nd Edition,
roots. Her connection to her ancestral history Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2019.
translates into her current practices as she In 2018, he was recognized with the American
continuously strives for cultural diversity and Jewish Press Association Rockower Award.
mutual understanding. Lecyca is passionate Most recent publications: „Salvation and
about hip hop culture, documentary perdition – the Polish Jews’ Russian school of
filmmaking, spirituality, and indigenous modernity and politics” [in Polish], in: Lidia
culture. She uses education, film, and public Zessin-Jurek, Katharina Friedla (Ed.):
speaking to contribute to a more inclusive Syberiada Żydów polskich. Losy uchodźców z
society, create an all-encompassing narrative, Zagłady, Warszawa 2020, Żydowski Instytut
and limber up reference frameworks. Historyczny; “Poland, Israel and History” [in
German], in Gisela Dachs (Ed.):
Freundschaften, Feindschaften. Essays., Berlin
2020, Suhrkamp.
KONSTANTY
GEBERT
Journalist, Speaker &
LUCIA HARCEGOVA
Educator
Humanity in Action Senior
Fellow (2020 Copenhagen
Konstanty Gebert was born 1953 in Warsaw
Fellowship)
and graduated with a degree in psychology
from Warsaw University in 1976. He is
currently an international reporter and
columnist with the leading Polish daily Gazeta Born and raised in Slovakia, Lucia studied
Wyborcza. Democratic opposition activist in international relations and economics in
the 1970s and underground journalist (as Slovakia, Italy and most recently Denmark,
Dawid Warszawski) in the 1980s. Gerbert co- where she graduated with a degree in
founded the underground Jewish Flying International Business and Politics. Through
University and the Polish Jewish intellectual her studies and work, Lucia has experience in
monthly Midrasz among others. He has served advising businesses on aligning their practice
as a board member for the Einstein Forum, with human rights and sustainability
Potsdam; Paideia, Stockholm; and Dutch standards. Due to her interest in the world
Jewish Humanitarian Fund, The Hague. around her, Lucia has developed a great
Gebert has taught at Hebrew University, sensitivity towards environmental and social
Jerusalem, UC Berkeley and the Grinnell issues and is dedicated to focusing her career
College. Gerbert has authored eleven books in in this area. In addition, she has advocated for
Polish, some translated into English, Italian, gender equality in Indonesia and continues to
and Bosnian. His writing covers an array of promote social justice values through her
topics including Poland’s round table work at a homeless shelter in Copenhagen.
negotiations of 1989, the Yugoslav wars,
Israeli history, and commentaries on the
Torah. His essays have been published in
dozens of collections around the world and
his articles have appeared in media
worldwide. Most recent publications: “Poland:
Living Apart,” in: Anders Jerichow and Cecilie
Felicia Stockholm Banke (Eds): Pre-Genocide.
Warnings and Responsibility to Protect, 2018;
“Poland Since 1989 – Muddling Through, Wall
38 | HUMANITY IN ACTION | BERLIN FELLOWSHIP 2021 | #HIA2021confronting the practice of manspreading, and
was also an active performer in Berlin’s theatre
scene. She worked at MSO inklusiv!, a project
overseen by the Migration Council Berlin, that
EMMANUELLE applies an intersectional concept for
HERMAN enhancing visibility and promoting
Head of Education and sexual/gender diversity in self-organised
migrant associations. Currently, she works as
Inclusion at Stedelijk
a consultant on migration, environment and
Museum Amsterdam, climate change.
Humanity in Action
Senior Fellow
KERIM HODŽIĆ
Emma Harjadi Herman is Head of Education
and Inclusion at Stedelijk Museum
Humanity in Action Senior
Amsterdam. Bringing the voices of artists and Fellow (2020 John Lewis
activists to a wider audience is a constant Fellowship)
theme in her endeavours, both professional
and voluntary. Prior to joining the Stedelijk,
Emma worked for global feminist fund Mama Born and raised in Sarajevo, Bosnia and
Cash, the Dutch and European civil service Herzegovina, Kerim Hodžić currently studies
and several non-profits. Emma was a Fellow in marketing management at the School of
the Amsterdam program of 2006 and has Economics and Business Sarajevo. As a
continued to draw inspiration and friendships member of NGOs such as the Youth Initiative
from Humanity in Action through the years. for Human Rights (Bosnia) which strives to
Emma has lived and worked in New York, heal post-conflict societies through
Paris, Cotonou and Brussels. She is now back intentional and inclusive dialogue, Kerim
in her hometown Amsterdam where she lives seeks to address and raise awareness about
with her partner and two children. human rights inequalities through innovative
and creative ways. Kerim organized a project
known as “Paint your Culture” where he
hosted workshops on human rights and
HIEU HANH HOANG utilized street art to encourage expression. In
his spare time, Kerim paints and volunteers in
TRAN local humanitarian non-profit organisations.
Humanity in Action Senior After obtaining his Bachelor’s degree, Kerim
Fellow (2019 John Lewis plans to pursue an MSc in product design and
Fellowship) marketing management.
Hoang Tran Hieu Hanh (Hany) is a Berlin
based community activist who worked with PANINNGUAQ
stateless communities in Malaysia and
Cambodia/Vietnam. As a reaction to the IKIMALEQ
COVID-19 pandemic, Hany co-initiated a Traditional practitioner
group for the Asian Diaspora of Europe with of Kakiornerit, writer and
the aim of virtually connecting with one
filmmaker
another by hosting artist and community talks
on the notions of home, mobility, and the
Paninnguaq Is a Greenlandic Inuk and a
politics of care. As a panelist at the Women*
traditional practitioner of Kakiornerit and
of Colour Europe Conference, she spoke
tunniit, author of children's books, and
about the future of female* identified activism,
filmmaker. She is working with cultural
the sense of solidarity and conflicting
dissemination through her practice and
interests in Communities of Colour. As part of
creative work and raising awareness of
the Misplaced Women project, Hany
cultural traditions within the Inuit culture and
organised a collaborative intervention with
people.
large mirrors in Berlin’s underground
39 | HUMANITY IN ACTION | BERLIN FELLOWSHIP 2021 | #HIA2021Arts in Warsaw. Professionally, she composes
AASTHA KC perfumes and her job is about responding to
Humanity in Action other people’s needs and assisting them in
Senior Fellow (2020 discovering their olfactory preferences.
Copenhagen Fellowship)
ZUZANNA
Born and raised in Kathmandu, Nepal, Aastha KRZĄTAŁA
is currently residing in Malmo, Sweden. Her
Projects Coordinator at HIA
academic background is in human rights
& Humanity in Action Senior
studies specializing in anti- discrimination Fellow (2019 Warsaw
laws. She is currently pursuing a Master’s of Fellowship)
Science programme in Sociology of Law at
Lund University also with a focus on human Zuzanna Krzątała is a Warsaw-based activist
rights and the socio-legal implications of anti- and feminist advocating for reproductive
discrimination laws. She is currently engaged rights and gender equality. She is a graduate
with Copenhagen 2021 as their human rights of the New School for Social Research in New
intern for the LGBTI+ event combining York and a Fellow at Zolberg Institute on
WorldPride, EuroGames, an arts and culture Migration and Mobility.She gained her
program and LGBTI+ human rights forum experience in the third sector at the
happening between 12-22 August 2021 in International Rescue Committee, a global
Copenhagen. relief agency, where she worked directly for
president David Miliband, former British
Foreign Secretary. She was involved in
KATARZYNA drafting a feminist humanitarian policy, which
addressed sexual and gender-based violence
KORYTOWSKA
in conflict and humanitarian settings. Through
Humanity in Action Senior
her fieldwork with refugees in Rwanda,
Fellow (2018 Berlin Jordan, and the Greek island of Lesbos, she
Fellowship) & board focused on women-empowerment initiatives.
member HER Docs She lived and worked in New York for over a
decade, where she advocated for labor rights
Katarzyna Korytowska is a co-organizer and
of fashion models and protection from sexual
one of the originators of HER Docs Film
harassment in the workplace with an
Festival, the first documentary film festival in
organization Model Alliance. In 2018 it was
Poland (and one of few such festivals in
successful in passing the Stop Sexual
general) which celebrates documentaries
Harassment Act, which was signed into law by
directed by women. Her practices revolve
NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio. At the height of the
around interdisciplinary forms of activism and
#MeToo movement, she was involved in the
initiating collective situations in favour of
investigative report from The Boston Globe’s
egalitarian world free from divisions. She's
Spotlight team that shed light on the abuses in
currently studying at postgraduate Gender
the fashion industry.
Studies. Co-founder and program curator of
Since her return to Poland in 2019, she has
the Synergia collective, which organizes a
been involved in numerous social initiatives,
Warsaw cycle of interdisciplinary, socially
from a campaign promoting HIV testing with
aware musical events. Katarzyna is also
the Social Education Foundation to
actively involved in the community Radio
advocating and fundraising for the Women’s
Kapitał. Scholarship holder of the Humanity in
Rights Centre together with Wysokie Obcasy
Action foundation in Berlin. She gained
Foundation, a prominent feminist newspaper.
experience in the field of cultural education
Her journey with Humanity in Action began in
and project management at the education
2019 as a Warsaw Fellow. In her current role
department of the Museum of Modern Art in
at HIA Poland, she is responsible for
Warsaw and at the Department of Visual
communication and project coordination.
Culture Management at the Academy of Fine
40 | HUMANITY IN ACTION | BERLIN FELLOWSHIP 2021 | #HIA2021NITZAN MENAGEM GILBERTO
MORISHAW
Humanity in Action
Senior Fellow (2020 Humanity in Action Senior
Warsaw Fellowship) Fellow (2019 John Lewis
Fellowship)
Nitzan Menagem is a pedagogical
Gilberto, born in Curacao and currently living
coordinator, trainer and speaker for social
in the city of The Hague is a Master’s student
activism, specializing in political participation,
of Public Administration at Leiden University.
conflict resolution and the prevention and
This past year he launched a thinktank about
impact of Gender Based Violence in
food security in the Dutch Caribbean for the
intercultural settings. Based in Berlin, Nitzan is
Dutch ministry of Agriculture. He also
a humanist and a feminist, taking part in
launched the Demcoratic Innovator’s network
different emancipatory groups. Nitzan has
together with the US Embassy. He is a Global
served as representative in the student union
Shaper of the World Economic Forum where
of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, while
he is leading a project on inclusion.
coordinating the Jewish-Arab coalition
Furthermore he is an Ambassador for the
“Campus4All”, and has been long involved in
African Caribbean Pacific Young Professionals
the peace project Willy Brandt Center
Network where he focuses on fighting
Jerusalem. Since 2020 Nitzan is the
inequities. He also co-founded his own
chairperson of Hashomer Hatzair Germany, a
political party in the Hague and was also
progressive Jewish youth movement, which
president of a student-party. Next to all of this
was re-established in 2012 after being
he also sings, plays the piano, does poetry
prohibited during the Second World War. She
and gives workshops about improvisation and
is the founder and director of ROSBOT, a non-
project management and is launching his own
confessional and multicultural initiative,
consulting ocmpany on the Future of Work.
promoting "Fearless Education for a Hopeful
Future", concentrating on political education
for educators and youth workers.
LISA NUSSY
Humanity in Action Senior
ALOK-VAID MENON Fellow (2019 Amsterdam
Artist & Humanity in Action Fellowship)
Senior Fellow (2011
Amsterdam Fellowship)
Lisa is born and raised in Castricum, the
Netherlands. She studied Public
ALOK (they/them) is a gender non-conforming Administration & Organization Sciences at
writer and performance artist. Their distinctive Vrije Universiteit (VU) in Amsterdam, went
style and poetic challenge to the gender abroad for a semester in Istanbul, and took
binary have been internationally renowned. As two years in between studies to work and
a mixed-media artist Alok uses poetry, prose, travel solo throughout Central America. Two
comedy, performance, lecture, fashion design, years ago she started the Master Culture,
and portraiture to explore themes of gender, Organization & Management program at VU
race, trauma, belonging, and the human again, and went to Central Java, Indonesia, for
condition. They are the author of Femme in her master’s research on Ecofeminism in the
Public (2017) and Beyond the Gender Binary Batik industry. She has volunteered for
(2020). In 2019 they were honored as one of Amnesty International for several years and
NBC’s Pride 50 and Out Magazine’s OUT 100. has a passion for activism against racism and
They have presented their work at 500 venues for gender equality. Recently she started
in more than 40 countries. They were a volunteering for Bij1, a newly found political
Humanity in Action Fellow (2011) in party which stands for radical equality and
Amsterdam.
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