Who we are

Yasmine Djidel

EA Berlin Intern

Yasmine Djidel is currently an intern at EA Berlin, supporting the School of Transnational Organising. 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.

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.

Sharlen Sezestre

Fierce Project Coordinator

Sharlen Sezestre, is an activist who has been involved since the age of 13 in feminist associations fighting violence against women and in groups helping asylum seekers.

After obtaining a Master’s degree in Human Rights, she worked as jurist at France Terre d’Asile, then as International Advocacy Officer at le Planning Familial (a French feminist association promoting sexual and reproductive health and rights). She was also a member of the Political Board of the Black Feminist Fund for the last 6 years, a fund aiming at supporting the funding of black feminist organizations through an anti-racist and decolonial perspective.
Today, she is The Fierce Project Coordinator at European Alternatives.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Jana Ahlers

EA Berlin Head of Learning and Education

Jana is the Head of Learning and Education, working at European Alternatives Berlin and Paris. She is dedicated to creating transformative learning spaces and building capacity to collaboratively strategize for system change. 

Myriam Zekagh

Project coordinator

Myriam Zekagh coordinates EA’s programmes focused on youth and social movements, and monitors the impact of EA’s activities through monitoring, evaluation and learning. 

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.