Staff

Anne is a project associate of the Feminist Peace Project. As an advocate for social transformation, Anne believes that intersectional approaches are key.  That’s why she dedicates her pursuits to Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI), Peace Innovations and Post-conflict Peacebuilding initiatives on the African Region and Developing Countries. 

She has worked as a project specialist at the Computing for Development (C4D) Lab, at the University of Nairobi; as Elections Observer with the African Women Mediation Delegation, Women, Peace and Security (WPS) in Nigeria; and with UNODC in South East Asia and Pacific. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Conflict and Peacebuilding, with minors in Sociology and Chinese Language & Proficiency, and is an M.A Candidate in Applied Human Rights.

As European Alternative’s Movement Research & Training Officer, Daniel is dedicated to investigating and circulating knowledge that enables civil society actors to develop resilient, rewarding, and politically effective organizations.

Outside of EA, Daniel is an organizing trainer at Werkstatt für Bewegungsbildung and co-host of Spadework podcast. Through the Werkstatt, Daniel has focused largely on empowering migrant workers, such as delivery workers, tech workers, and airline workers.

Georg, born in 1987 near the Polish Solidarnosc city of Gdansk, is the Director of our Berlin Hub, which primarily runs the School of Transnational Organizing providing a space for education and training on movement building, transformative organizing, and popular education for grassroots campaigners, migrant workers, union organizers, climate justice activists and many more seeking for skills and tools to build the next generation of movements and organisations.

He is a psychologist by training and has been working for several years as a documentary theatermaker, before turning to political organizing and grassroots education with progressive movements, trade unions, and civil society organizations. Because of his own family history, his focus is on organizing workers, migrants, and their communities on the frontlines.

Before joining European Alternatives in early 2021, he worked as Artistic-Pedagogical Director of the Academy of the Arts of the World/Cologne from 2014 to 2016 and initiate the SCHOOL OF POLITICAL HOPE as a place for citizens, communities, and civil society actors seeking inspiration, empowerment, and support to overcome our feeling of powerlessness and revive the lost art of organizing solidarity.

Jana is Grassroots Education Manager at European Alternatives, working within the School of Transnational Organizing. She is dedicated to creating transformative learning spaces and building capacity to collaboratively strategize for system change. 

With a background in education, she has a passion for critical and experiential pedagogy and research interest in how social movements learn and engage in counter-hegemonic knowledge production. As a social and climate justice organizer and activist she has experience and a wide network across the Netherlands, Spain, Belgium, the UK, and Germany. 

Most recently, she coordinated the programme of the People’s Summit for Climate Justice in Glasgow. Working with the COP26 Coalition, she draws on capacity organizing with a wide range of civil society groups, ranging from environment and development NGOs, to grassroots community campaigns, youth groups, indigenous groups, and migrant and racial justice networks. 

Outside of EA, Jana is a Berlin-based grassroots organizer and activist, steadily pushing towards new imaginaries and strategic wins by the people.

Marta Cillero is responsible of the communications. at European Alternatives. 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.

Myriam Zekagh is coordinating EA’s Youth Movement & Campaign Accelerator (YMCA) project. As such, she works with young activists and partner organisations throughout Europe to create a space of learning and practice around organising, community building and political activism. Outside of European Alternatives, Myriam works on developing and evaluating projects with high social impact, engaging with local activists, civil society organisations and local authorities outside of Europe, most notably in North Africa, on behalf of European, American and international organisations. Through this work and her training in sociology, she has shown a real interest for social change, and gained solid experience and expertise in conflict resolution, community development projects and participatory processes.

Niccolò is a director of European Alternatives. He is currently a Europe’s Future’s Fellow at IWM, Vienna. Niccolò was educated in Cambridge, Siena and Paris where he was an Entente Cordiale Scholar. Asides from European Alternatives he has been involved in the founding of numerous political and cultural organizations, magazines and initiatives on several sides of the Mediterranean.

Ophélie coordinates the ‘Assemblies of Solidarity’ project as well as several other key areas of work at European Alternatives, including the « Citizens Takeover Europe » coalition.

She has worked as communications officer for several international NGOs, where she focused on defining new common narratives and championing inclusive language processes. She has created and led campaigns at EU level, engaging with actors ranging from grassroots organisations to European institutions. She has also worked in communications for an MEP at the European Parliament.

Ophélie is a committed feminist, who believes in an intersectional approach to ending all forms of gender-based violence and oppression. She is passionate about ceramics and volunteers with local organisations defending LGBT+ rights. She has featured in the movie « En ce Moment », selected at the Venice Biennale.

Ségolène Pruvot is a Cultural Director of European Alternatives. Trained as a political scientist and urban planner in France, the UK, and Germany, she has developed extensive experience in designing and implementing transnational participative cultural programmes.

Ségolène has led the Creative Europe Project on Re-build Refuge Europe and is a researcher within the H2020-RISE project Co-creation focussed on disadvantaged urban areas.

Ségolène is passionate about equality, feminism, migrant; minority rights. She is a researcher in urban sociology at the University of Milano Bicocca working on how arts can help to build a (more) just city; exploring participatory theatre experiments in an area North of Paris (Saint-Denis). She has also been working for 15 years as a consultant to the URBACT European Programme (www.urbact.eu), which includes a wealth of municipal good practices in alternative practices in education and in the welcoming of migrants.