Siamo orgogliosi di avere un team giovane, talentuoso e transnazionale che lavora con impegno per garantire che European Alternatives sia una storia di successo continua. Scopri il team di persone che lavora dietro la nostra organizzazione.
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Aurelia Temi
Imagine & Assemble Intern
Aurelia Temi is an urban governance graduate and cultural practitioner currently interning with the Imagine & Assemble streams. Passionate about the intersections between art, culture, politics, and urbanism, she works towards imagining and building fairer (urban) futures.
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Ilona Hural
Intern
Ilona Hural is currently a final-year student in the Master’s degree program in Global Politics and Society at the University of Milan. She previously earned a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science, with a focus on Law and Market Integration, a path that allowed her to develop a strong understanding of the political, economic, and legal dynamics shaping the international landscape. She is passionate about global politics, international cooperation, and human rights.
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Kaia Nisser
Ecosystem & Network Coordinator
Kaia Nisser is a journalist and researcher working at the intersection of democracy, media, and transnational civil society. Born Swedish-Australian and educated in Cambridge and Stockholm, her work spans youth participation, the arts, and democratic resilience across Europe and its neighbourhoods.
She has supported independent journalism both as a practitioner and as a connector, writing on human rights, freedom of information, and the politics of migration, while building cross-border networks that allow independent newsrooms to grow their reach across the continent. Her published research argues that civil society, journalism, and activism survive best as an interdependent, sustainable ecosystem of resistance and youth participation.
She has coordinated international cross-border youth programmes convening voices from build resilience against the climate crisis, polarisation and sustainable peace-building. Alongside this, she advocates for the safety and political inclusion of young people through work in antiracism, inter-religious dialogue, and the arts, grounded in a belief that cultural expression and civic participation are inseparable paths toward belonging.
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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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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
Assembly and Deliberation Manager
Irene Alonso Toucido is the Assembly and Deliberation Manager at European Alternatives, where she explores how we live, decide, and care together through democratic experimentation. With roots in sociology and a strong interest in the commons, ecofeminism, and community practices, her work seeks to reimagine participation, not only as a right, but as a shared practice of shaping and sustaining life in common.
Irene Alonso Toucido is a participatory practitioner working at the intersection of participatory democracy, deliberation, and social justice. Over the past decade, her path has been shaped by movement, experimentation, and a constant effort to unlearn and re-learn how we live together, decide together, and take care of each other. At the heart of her current work as Assembly and Deliberation manager at EA is a commitment to intersectional democratic experimentation. She believes that people have the capacity, and the right, to shape the decisions that affect their lives. But she also believes that creating truly inclusive and transformative democratic spaces requires more than just inviting people to the table. It means rethinking how the table is set, whose stories are heard, whose time is valued, and what it means to “participate” in the first place.
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Niccolò Milanese
Niccolò è direttore di European Alternatives. Attualmente è un European’s Future’s Fellow all’IWM di Vienna. Niccolò ha studiato a Cambridge, Siena e Parigi, dove è stato borsista dell’Entente Cordiale. A parte European Alternatives, è stato coinvolto nella fondazione di numerose organizzazioni politiche e culturali, riviste e iniziative su diverse sponde del Mediterraneo.
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Marta Cillero
Marta Cillero è responsabile delle comunicazioni. di European Alternatives. Si è laureata in Media Studies, Giornalismo e Comunicazione (Madrid, Istanbul e Chicago) e ha un master in Studi di genere (Roma). Ha pubblicato diversi articoli e rapporti di ricerca sulla violenza di genere nei paesi del Mediterraneo.
È membro del comitato esecutivo e project manager di Chayn Italia, un’organizzazione pluripremiata con sede in Italia, Pakistan, India e Regno Unito che aiuta le donne che subiscono abusi e violenza di genere attraverso risorse multilingue aperte e gratuite sulla sicurezza online.
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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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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
Ophélie coordina il progetto “Assemblee della solidarietà” e diverse altre aree chiave di lavoro di European Alternatives, compresa la coalizione “Citizens Takeover Europe”.
Ha lavorato come responsabile della comunicazione per diverse ONG internazionali, dove si è concentrata sulla definizione di nuove narrazioni comuni e sulla promozione di processi linguistici inclusivi. Ha creato e condotto campagne a livello europeo, impegnandosi con attori che vanno dalle organizzazioni di base alle istituzioni europee. Ha anche lavorato nella comunicazione per un deputato al Parlamento europeo.
Ophélie è una femminista impegnata, che crede in un approccio intersezionale per porre fine a tutte le forme di violenza e oppressione di genere. È appassionata di ceramica e fa volontariato con organizzazioni locali che difendono i diritti LGBT+. Ha partecipato al film “En ce Moment”, selezionato alla Biennale di Venezia.
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Letizia Gullo
Letizia Gullo si è laureata in Storia contemporanea. Ha lavorato come redattrice e traduttrice in Italia, Francia e Stati Uniti. Nel 2010 ha iniziato a occuparsi di documentari come autrice e regista. Ha partecipato come coautore con il regista Stefano Savona a un progetto per un archivio audiovisivo di storie di vita di anziani ex contadini siciliani, da cui sono stati tratti due film, Spezzacatene e Sulla stessa barca. Ha diretto, con Ester Sparatore, Mare Magnum, un documentario sulle elezioni comunali di Lampedusa, un altro punto di vista sulla migrazione nel Mediterraneo. Ha diretto con Dagmawi Yimer il cortometraggio Giocherenda (vincitore del bando Migrarti del Ministero dei Beni Culturali) e il lungometraggio Strade Minori (in corso) entrambi su un gruppo di giovani rifugiati africani a Palermo. Collabora con Arte TV e insegna in workshop di regia per studenti di cinema e giovani rifugiati.
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Lorenzo Marsili
Lorenzo Marsili è un filosofo, attivista e uno dei co-fondatori di European Alternatives. In precedenza ha lavorato nel giornalismo culturale a Londra e Pechino, dove ha fondato la rivista Naked Punch Review. È stato il promotore dell’Iniziativa europea per il pluralismo dei media, una campagna internazionale che chiede una migliore protezione del pluralismo e della libertà dei media a livello europeo, e di Dialoghi transnazionali, un programma pluriennale di scambio artistico tra innovatori culturali in Cina, Brasile ed Europa. Nel suo libro Citizens of Nowhere: How to Save Europe for Itself (Zed Books 2018, scritto con Niccolò Milanese), racconta la storia di Alternative europee all’interno di una più ampia analisi politica e filosofica della crisi dello Stato-nazione. È un commentatore regolare dei media europei e si è laureato in filosofia e sinologia all’Università di Londra.
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Segolene Pruvot
Ségolène Pruvot è direttrice culturale di Alternative europee. Formatasi come politologo e urbanista in Francia, Regno Unito e Germania, ha sviluppato una vasta esperienza nella progettazione e realizzazione di programmi culturali partecipativi transnazionali.
Ségolène ha guidato il Progetto Europa Creativa sulla ricostruzione del Rifugio Europa ed è ricercatrice nell’ambito del progetto H2020-RISE Co-creazione incentrato sulle aree urbane svantaggiate.
Ségolène è appassionata di uguaglianza, femminismo, migrazioni, diritti delle minoranze. È ricercatrice in sociologia urbana presso l’Università di Milano Bicocca e si occupa di come l’arte possa aiutare a costruire una (più) giusta città; esplorando esperimenti di teatro partecipativo in un’area a nord di Parigi (Saint-Denis). Da 15 anni lavora anche come consulente del programma europeo URBACT (www.urbact.eu), che comprende un gran numero di buone pratiche municipali in pratiche alternative nell’educazione e nell’accoglienza dei migranti.