Shaama Saggar-Malik
Founded DiPA in 2004. Shaama is an Independent Organisational Performance and Executive Development Consultant and Coach, and a former director of HR. She is passionate about public services and the third sector and believes that the quality of life in Britain can only truly be enhanced through encouraging more diverse participation and representation in public life. Shaama has published and co-authored several articles, training materials and books in her field. She herself holds several public appointments and combines these with the equally challenging demands of being a mother of two teenage children. Website: www.dipa.org.uk Email: shaama@dipa.org.uk Telephone: + 44 (0)208 446 1694 |
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Beatriz Hernandez de Fuhr
Is an information specialist and a researcher with KVINFO, The Danish Centre for Information on Gender, Equality and Diversity an institution dedicated to bringing gender’s research to the forefront of cultural debate in Denmark. Beatriz holds an B.S. in Journalism and Mass Communication from Iowa State University (US), and M.LISc. from The Danish Royal School of Library and Information Science. Email: beatriz.hernandez@kvinfo.dk Website: http://kvinfo.org/frontpage |
Anthony Sylvester
Diversity Consultant with The largest trade union in Denmark United Federation of Danish Workers- 3F. 1995- 2001 - Project Manager, Job House, Municipality of Ballerup Member of the Committee for Equal Treatment Alternate member of the Council for Human Rights Central Board Member in the DRC Documentation and Advisory Centre for race discrimination Member of the committee for foreign labor - UNI-Europa. Email: anthony.sylvester@3f.dk Website: http://www.3f.dk/english |
Azadeh Sabouri
Master of industrial design from Politecnico di Milano. User Experience designer and mentee at KVINFO's Mentor Network. Designer of the experience of the Diversity in leadership in Europe-Copenhagen and responsible for photography and visualization. Email: azadeh.sabouri@gmail.com Website:www.azadehsabouri.weebly.com |
Lærke Clausen
Lærke Kamma Clausen is a researcher who focuses on the factors that affect the use of evaluations in the Danish Ministry of Education. Currently she works with Diversity and Education with The largest trade union in Denmark United Federation of Danish Workers- 3F Email: lærke.clausen@3f.dk |
Graciela Alulong
Graciela is a government employee and also an actress. She works as a shop steward at the National Museum of Denmark. Born in the Philippines, Graciela is a naturalized Danish citizen. Email:graciela.alulong@natmus.dk |
Andra Gavrilescu
Communication and diversity consultant for 3F, the United Federation of Danish Workers. Master of Arts in Media Studies (University of Copenhagen), Andra has been involved in the online media and communication, non-profit and diplomatic spaces. Email: andra.gavrilescu@gmail.com |
Katerina Prevelianaki
Master in Media and Games Analysis from the IT University of Copenhagen. Currently helps out KVINFO with a crash course about crowdfunding on the meeting in London as well as being a mentee on KVINFO's mentorship program. She is volunteering in an NGO based in Copenhagen as a PR team leader for the last 1,5 years and is a trained Project Manager on PRINCE2. Email:katringr87@gmail.com |
Catherine Wurth
Project manager for Vielfalt entscheidet in Berlin and is responsible for building partnerships in Berlin, communication and project development. Prior to this, Catherine worked at the Ministry for Family and Integration in Luxembourg on diversity and integration issues. She holds master‘s degrees in Public Policy from the Hertie School of Governance, Berlin and in Migration, Mobility and Development from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. Catherine is member of the Impact Hub Berlin and is interested in topics such as professionalisation of NGOs, social impact maximisation and innovative project management tools. Catherine is born and grew up in Luxembourg. Email: wurth@citizensforeurope.org Website: http://citizensforeurope.org/ |
Martin Wilhelm
Director and founder of Citizens For Europe. He sets up the organisation’s strategic plans and coordinates international partnerships, fundraising activities and project development. This doesn’t leave much time left for other activities, but for some leisure and sport. Prior to CFE, Martin worked in different public and civil society organisations across Europe. He grew up in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Email: wilhelm@citizensforeurope.org Website: http://citizensforeurope.org/ |
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Gizem Adiyaman
Is project assistant at Citizens For Europe. She is an MA student of Sociocultural Studies at the European University Viadrina. Gizem is one of the core members of the German online initiative against racism called #SchauHin and teaches within the project Dialog macht Schule ethics classes at a high school in Berlin. Email: gizem@citizensforeurope.org |
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Sima Fazlali
Works for the IQ Network (Integration through Qualification) in the Berlin Senate for Labour, Integration and Women. She coordinates public communication and welcome culture in order to improve the access to labour market for migrants. Prior to this Sima worked in different national and international organisations in Germany, India, China and Iran on the topics of migration, gender and communication. Sima is member at the "Neue Deutsche Medienmacher" and studied history and culture of the Middle East, political science and media science. Sima is born and grew up in North Rhine Westphalia. |
Sepehr Shahin
Works as a policy advisor at the German Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB), where he leads an international campaign for skilled workers abroad. Prior to this he worked as a policy advisor for the Federal Ministry for Labour and Social Affairs, Stiftung Mercator and the Society for Social Business Consultancy (gsub). Sepehr is a member of the NGO DeutschPlus, where he has initiated several projects aiming at fostering social inclusion of migrants. He has been working as a cooperation partner with CFE since 2012. Sepehr holds degrees from the Hertie School of Governance and the University of Maastricht. Email: sepehrshahin@googlemail.com |
Ayu Udiyani
Born and grew up in Bali, Indonesia and travelled to German in 2006 for study purposes. After graduating from her Master Degree in Construction & Real Estate, she is working for Mainz Government as a project manager and received a scholar from Vielfalt Entscheidet e.V. for an Ambassador Award 2014. Since the beginning of her stay, she has been engaged in supporting international students in Germany and has dedicated herself to sharing diverse value with the other Expats in Germany. Email: ayu_udiyani87@yahoo.com |
Hakan Demir
Director of DeutschPlus e.V, a competence network that has the goal to achieve a plural society in which people with "migration background" are equally represented in the main fields of social life – like: education, employment, politics and media. Email: hdemir@deutsch-plus.de |
Isabel Thiele
She studied Art Didactics, Education and Gender Studies in Bielefeld, Berlin and Turku (Finland). Her academic work focuses on using art and other creative methods within contexts of social discrimination (such as sexism and racism) and trauma in order to foster empowerment and healing on a personal and collective level. This approach also informed her pedagogical work with children andadolescents.Thiele Paredes has worked in various projects with the aim of contributing towards a more just society. Currently she is involved in the Network Inclusion Leader Program for people of color and Black people in Germany and participates within the Interreligious Youth Forum 2015, promoting interfaith solidarity through grassroute action. She grew up in Germany and Mexico." Email:isabel.thiele.paredes[at]gmx[dot]de isabel.thiele@uni-bielefeld.de |
Mahta Woldezghi
My name is Mahta Woldezghi, I was born in Reggio Emilia (Italy) but my parents came from Eritrea. I was graduated in Comparative Politics, Faculty of Political Sciences at the Alma Mater Studiorum in Bologna (Italy): my thesis was focused on immigration policies with the title “Immigration policies in Great Britain and in the Netherlands in the ‘80s”. In 2006, I started to collaborate with the Intercultural Center “Mondinsieme” as intercultural educator with the high schools and also as a reporter for the local newspaper “Gazzetta di Reggio” (a specific insert on immigration issues called “Pagina speciale Mondinsieme”. In 2007, my position within Mondinsieme changed and I became the manager of the intercultural projects involving migrant associations. In this framework I plan and implement cultural events and projects based on the promotion of the intercultural dialogue and the cultural pluralism, and in collaboration with different local actors: citizens, social and cultural organizations, public authorities and private bodies. Email: mahta.woldezghi@mondinsieme.org |
Nicoletta Manzini
Born in 1983 in Reggio Emilia, She has a master degree in International Cooperation and development with a thesis on cooperative work and women empowerment in Palestine. After the University She had work and volutary experiences in Europe, Africa and Middle East, both in the field of microfinance for developement and in the field of peacebuilding. She joined Mondinsieme in 2010 to carry out video projects and intercultural education activities. Since 2011, She is responsible for the International Relations and Project Manager of the organisation. Email: manzini.nicoletta@gmail.com |
Gabriele Mammi
My name is Gabriele Mammi, I was born on 9 February 1989. I grown up in Albinea, a small town around the hills of Reggio Emilia city, where I studied until the age of 14. I started to play basketball at the same age with Polisportiva Albinetana, with which, in later years, we won many times Regional Championship and disputed also a National Tournament in Rome. In 2007 I stopped playing basketball because of knee problems. In the same year, I started to take musical lessons for classical guitar. Rock/modern guitar lessons are taken in subsequent years inside CEPAM school of music in Reggio Emilia. In 2008 I obtained an High School Diploma as a Geometer. In the meantime I started some musical projects (currently I'm guitarist in the female fronted metal band Winter Haze from Parma), also studying numerous aspects of hobbies I like such cooking, gardening, narratives, mythology, legends. In 2014 I graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (in Music), at the University of Bologna, with a thesis on 'music psychology'applied on emotions. From early January 2015 I'm engaged in civil cervice with Intercultural Centre 'Fondazione Mondinsieme' of Reggio Emilia. |
Sinthujha Nagendram
Hi! My name is Sinthujha Nagendram. I was born in Reggio Emilia in Italy on 21.08.1988. I am Tamil. I’m in the last year of law at the University of Bologna and have started the practice at a law firm. At the same time I’m the vice president of the Giovani Tamil Association, an association that aims to reconcile the dual identity of the young Tamils and to sensitize the international community on the issue of the Tamils, the genocide they suffered and are suffering. Also I was elected in 2010 as secretary of the Council of the Eelam Tamils of Italy, other structure that deals with the needs of the Tamil Diaspora in Italy and those always raise the issue of Tamils. |
Teresa Buczkowska
Holds a MA in Ethnology and Anthropology of Culture, obtained from Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland. Her Currently she is a PhD student in Equality Studies in the School of Social Justice at University College Dublin, Ireland. Her main subjects of interest are non-status immigrants in an Irish and a broader EU context. She has more than five years of experience working and volunteering with wide range of migrant-led organisation in Ireland working in the areas of anti-racism, integration and advocacy. Email: Teresa@immigrantcouncil.ie |
Declan Hayden
Declan Hayden is based at the Office for Integration in Dublin City Council, Dublin, Ireland. He holds a Masters in Philosophy in Ethnic and Racial Studies (2000), University of Dublin Trinity College. He has worked in the Department of Community & Social Development in DCC since 2004 and developed the Office for Integration with his colleague Gerry Folan in 2007 from the original Intercultural Relations Unit. The Office is the main centre of integration among the main Public Service bodies in Dublin and Ireland and links closely with the Department of Justice & Equality. The Office works with all migrant and cultural groups in the city of Dublin assisting them with all aspects of Intercultural integration, equality and the prevention of racism and discrimination. A Strategy on Integration: Towards Integration -A City Framework was published and declaration of Intent signed by all members of the Dublin City Development Board in 2008. Dublin became a member of the Council of Europe Intercultural Cities project as part of this work. The OFI have developed numerous projects, initiatives and events to promote integration. Key to these are cultural celebrations and festivals such as the Dublin Chinese New Year Festival. Declan is Director of DCNYF and working on a number of individual Sino-Irish projects. |
Vivienne Kavanagh
Dublin Bus Vivienne.Kavanagh@dublinbus.ie Norman Harte
Irish Rail Norman.Harte@irishrail.ie |
Catia Fernandes
Consultant and Process Facilitator with Brainiact a company commited to value the richness that rises from various cultures, mindsets, qualities and structures: they open us for new perspectives and reveal new opportunities for development. Email: catia.fernandes.neves@gmail.com |
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