Nous sommes fiers de notre équipe jeune, talentueuse et transnationale, qui œuvre chaque jour pour faire de European Alternatives une réussite continue. Faites connaissance avec les membres de l’équipe qui font vivre notre organisation.
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Ava Vermilya
Advocacy Intern
Ava Vermilya is currently pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in political science and sociology. She is joining the Brussels office to support advocacy work on projects and events. Currently, she is coordinating with partner organisations to prepare for an upcoming AI and digital democracy project.
Utilizing the intersection of her political and sociological studies, Ava is passionate about holding governmental institutions accountable and advocating for disadvantaged groups. She studies in Washington, D.C., and is therefore able to bring a transcontinental perspective to compare American and EU institutions. She also has experience with grassroots movements and is excited to continue this work in empowering individuals to create a better future.
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Ruxandra Stan
Administrative Officer
Ruxandra Stan is a Romanian citizen who relocated to Paris in 2015. She holds a degree in Computer Science as well as a Master’s in Commercial Business Law. Her professional career in finance includes experience within banking institutions and government organizations, where she has developed strong expertise in financial operations and regulatory compliance.
Beyond her professional work, she has been actively involved in volunteer initiatives since the teenage years. She has initially contributed to animal welfare causes and later collaborated with Romanian associations supporting children with cancer. These experiences have deeply shaped her values and reinforced her commitment to compassion, solidarity, and social responsibility.
Since September 2023, she has been serving as the Administrative Officer at EA Paris, where she continues to apply her skills and experience to contribute meaningfully both within her role and to the wider community.
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Garance Martin
Intern
Garance Martin holds a bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences and Philosophy and is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Political Theory, following studies in Gender Studies. Her academic work focuses on feminist theory and on ways to make democracies more deliberative and inclusive. She has worked with organisations dedicated to artistic and civic education, as well as to the inclusion of migrants in Paris. She is currently completing an internship at the Paris office.
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Ana-Maria Alucai
Communications Intern
Ana-Maria Alucai is the new communications intern joining our Paris office. She has a Bachelor’s Degree in Applied Foreign Languages and it is currently enrolled in two Master’s Degrees, studying Marketing and International Relations. She is keen to contribute to impactful communication strategies, drawing on her multidisciplinary academic training.
Originally from Romania, she brings a profile shaped by international mobility. Passionate about culture and the arts, she is deeply motivated to contribute to meaningful social change, with a strong commitment to equality, feminist causes, and inclusive democratic values.
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Yasmine Djidel
Advocacy and Programming Manager
Yasmine Djidel is Advocacy and Programming Manager. She holds a Master’s degree in International and European Law, with a focus on migration and decolonial studies, from the University of Angers, France. Her work has engaged with initiatives addressing anti-Muslim racism in Europe and the social and political conditions of the North African diaspora in France. Before settling in Berlin, she collaborated with migration lawyers and NGOs, combining legal counsel with grassroots experience to support displaced populations and marginalised communities.
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Jessica Valdez
EA Berlin Head of Finance and Programme Manager
Jessica Valdez demonstrates a remarkable wit in weaving ideas, narratives, budgets and logistics with the artists, activists and communities she collaborates with. She is also a speaker, political educator and content creator on anticolonial perspectives in cinema, climate justice and education. She has also organized within immigrant rights movements, particularly in relation to access to education, health and freedom of movement. communities.
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Noemi Pittalà
Communications Officer
Noemi Pittalà is a multidisciplinary artivist and cultural professional from Palermo, working at the intersection of art and social inclusion. With a background in visual arts and theatre, she has specialized in communications within the cultural sector, focusing on creating connections and fostering community engagement. Her work emphasizes radical inclusion, collective care, and active youth participation. As a Pop The Vote Changemaker in the 2024 European election promotion campaign by Culture Action Europe, she actively engages in fostering civic participation. Following this project, Noemi founded 800V, an artivism initiative aimed at empowering young people in Southern Italy. She is based in Brussels.
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Irene Alonso Toucido
Project Manager
Irene is the project manager of the Democratic Odyssey, a collaborative and decentralised initiative aiming at institutionalizing a peoples’ assembly and participatory ecosystem in Europe.
As a sociologist, Irene has a profound professional and personal interest in the commons, citizen participation and ecofeminism. She is particularly fascinated by the connections between degrowth, community and ancestral wisdoms.
Of nomadic nature, Irene’s work is driven by a commitment to fostering inclusive and sustainable societies. She has contributed to numerous projects and international forums, advocating for policies that empower communities. Her diverse experience and interdisciplinary approach enable her to connect theoretical concepts with practical applications, making her a bridge for grounding the Democratic Odyssey project.
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Niccolò Milanese
Director
Niccolò Milanese is a poet and one of the founding directors of European Alternatives. He fosters the development of the organisation, its staff and the ecosystem around European Alternatives and is the focal point for the ‘learn’ stream of our work.
He is currently a fellow of BI-Europe in Venice. In addition to longstanding work on transnationalism and political imaginaries, his current interests are in the planetary politics of desire, democratic education and fluid identities. His latest book is ‘Illiberal Democracies in Europe: An Authoritarian response to the crisis of liberalism’ available freely here.
He was previously a Europe’s Futures Fellow at IWM, Vienna, a visiting fellow at PUC Rio-De Janeiro, at UNAM Mexico, and at EUI School of Transnational Governance in Florence. He has been involved in founding numerous civil society initiatives and magazines in Europe and across the Mediterranean. He was educated in Cambridge, Siena and Paris.
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Marta Cillero
Studio Rizoma Director & Communications Director
Marta Cillero is the managing director at Fondazione Studio Rizoma (Palermo) and communications manager. She graduated in Media Studies, Journalism and Communication (Madrid, Istanbul and Chicago) and has a master degree in Gender Studies (Rome). She has published several articles and research reports about gender violence in Mediterranean countries.
She is a member of the executive board and project manager at Chayn Italia, an award-winning organisation based in Italy, Pakistan, India and the UK helping women experiencing abuse and gender violence through open and free multilingual resources on online safety.
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Viktoria Kostova
Project coordinator
Viktoria Kostova has a Bachelor’s degree in Journalism and just finished her Master’s degree in Management of Creative Industries and Cultural Organizations in Sofia, Bulgaria. She has worked for different NGOs in the sphere of culture and education locally and internationally, predominantly in Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Tenerife, Sweden, UK and the USA.
She is interested in sustainability in the arts, activism, youth engagement and audience development.
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Csenge Schneider-Lonhart
EA Berlin Head of Events & Culture
Csenge is Head of Events and Culture at European Alternatives Berlin, where they curate and organize the Summer School, Winter Academy, and other translocal gatherings that bring together activists, educators, and artists for collective learning, reflection, and action. They are a cultural organizer and activist committed to building transnational, intersectional networks of solidarity across movements. Csenge also contributes to the SCHOOL OF POLITICAL HOPE, supporting the creation of spaces for political imagination and shared struggle.
They studied theatre in Cluj, Romania, where they were active in the local housing movement with Social Housing Now and the European Action Coalition, fighting against gentrification and displacement, and for the right to housing and the city. These experiences continue to shape their dedication to the intersections of art, education, and political struggle. Csenge believes that care, trust, and creativity are essential tools for resisting alienation and xenophobia, and for building more just and livable futures.
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Gabriela Siegel
EA Berlin Head of Partnerships and Community Organizing
Gabriela was an intern at the Berlin Hub of European Alternatives, working on the School of Transnational Organizing‘s education and training programs for migrant workers, East German & Eastern European activists, as well as youth activists and campaigners from across Europe.
She has almost fourteen years of experience in direct legal services, community organising, and policy work with refugee and immigrant communities, both in Lebanon and the US. Gabriela worked in the US as a movement lawyer, representing low-income undocumented individuals, first in their immigration cases and later on employment and labour matters. She also worked on designing and implementing benefits and policies to support low-income immigrants in New York State. She is currently completing a master’s programme through the Global Labour University on Labour Policies and Globalisation.
Since April 2023, Gabriela has transitioned into her new role as Grassroots Community Manager building, holding, and caring for our community and network in Berlin and across Europe.
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Billie Dibb
Imagination Coordinator
Billie is the coordinator of the ‘imagination’ stream of European Alternatives, in other words working on and looking over the artistic & cultural projects.They have an academic background in International Politics, with a focus on gendered nationalism and big data.
Currently they are interested in, researching and designing cross disciplinary art-law-science projects around ecofeminism & the rights of nature, and digital rights, digital democracies & AI. Billie also creates spaces of queer art in Paris, with their collectives ‘La Voisin’, an exhbo-cum-party focused on feminism & witchcraft, and ‘hypercore’, investigating internet music culture.
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Ophélie Masson
Deputy director
Ophélie coordinates the programmes that aim at developing and implementing sustainable tools of participative democracy such as citizens assemblies and ECIs. She also co-coordinates the Citizens Take Over Europe coalition.
She focuses on defining new common narratives for citizens and residents of Europe who wish to enhance their political participation through innovative processes. As such, she is deeply involved in expanding European Alternatives partnerships with CSOs and movements that focus on training key individuals who develop and replicate diverse experimental citizens assemblies methodologies.
She has created and led campaigns at EU level, engaging with actors ranging from grassroots organisations to the European institutions.
Ophélie is also an LGBTQI activist and co-chair of the Board of IGLYO. She is also a Board Member of EUMANS, an organisation aiming at promoting civic participation through various instruments such as citizens assemblies, ECIs and petitions.
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Ségolène Pruvot
Director
Ségolène Pruvot is a Director of European Alternatives. Ségolène is a Doctor in Urban Sociology. In the course of her academic career and professional life, she specialised in the exploration of the intersection between arts, the city and social change. She trained as a political scientist and urban planner in France, the UK, and Germany.
Segolene has developed extensive experience in designing and implementing transnational participative cultural programmes, activists transnational networking and collaborative research.