Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Many people are fatalistic when it comes to overcoming imminent human-caused problems as climate change, violence, economic exploitation, inequality, or poverty: "We cannot change it anyway!" it is oftentimes argued. I do not want to accept that! I believe that positive change is possible. Creativity, curiosity and a critical attitude as well as a decent amount of boldness, passion, and idealism provide the essential features not for certain success, but to think differently - to begin a journey to achieve the impossible. I studied Political Science and Political Philosophy. My personal goal is to shed light on non-transparent and unjust processes and empower people to understand the subtle mechanisms and hidden interests that prevent humankind from flourishing equally and fairly: so that everyone can make better informed decisions about how we want to live today and in the future. Following this motivation, my partner and I created Buzzard.org, a news app that makes it very easy to access a diversity of voices and arguments about politics online. The future of journalism should not be about clicks, users, and headlines, but about orientation, truthfulness, and impartiality. It should help us to grasp the complex relations of the globalized world, with original reports and efficient access to global conversations. For me, a crisis is always a new beginning, a better start to probe real change. So let's be bold and start now.
Key responsibilities: - Vision and strategy - Business and product development - Strategy and fundraising for education tool for 1000+ German schools
Team leader of a 10-person team for membership recruitment for the German nature conservation organization BUND at the advertising company Holub, Steiner + Partner GmbH for two advertising campaigns, each lasting 6 weeks, in Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg. Over 1,000 new members recruited per advertising campaign in the team.
Writing reports for the college section of the daily newspaper mainly about college politics, but also about events and new trends in college
Research assistant at the DFG-funded project on the Role of the German Constitutional Court led by Professor Thomas Gschwend, Ph.D., Professor for Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences at the School of Social Sciences at University of Mannheim Key responsibilities: - Coding published decisions of the German Constitutional Court - Composing a new data set based on economic indicators and integrating it in the main database - Checking and cleaning data entries of other coders