Georg Blokus | He/Him

Polit­ic­al Organ­izer, Edu­cat­or & Cur­at­or |
Co-founder & Director

Georg, born near Gdansk in 1987, is a psy­cho­lo­gist who lives in Ber­lin and works across Europe as a polit­ic­al cur­at­or, artist, train­er, facil­it­at­or, con­sult­ant, and author with pro­gress­ive social move­ments, trade uni­ons and civil soci­ety organ­iz­a­tions, cul­tur­al insti­tu­tions and migrant com­munit­ies. He works at the inter­sec­tion of com­munity organ­iz­ing, edu­ca­tion and arts, cre­at­ing trans­form­at­ive spaces where solid­ar­ity and human­ity can become lived exper­i­ence. He cur­rently leads the SCHOOL OF POLIT­IC­AL HOPE after being Dir­ect­or and Head of Organ­iz­ing Edu­ca­tion of the Ber­lin Hub of European Altern­at­ives and the School of Transna­tion­al Organ­iz­ing.

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Sujin J. Noël | She/Her

Com­munity FACIL­IT­AT­OR, Coach & Consultant

From an early age, Sujin has lived in, between, and with dif­fer­ent cul­tures. As a com­munity coach and con­sult­ant, she works wherever people col­lab­or­ate who are very dif­fer­ent and want to or must face the chal­lenges of diversity. But what do vul­ner­able groups and lead­ers, (post-)migrant com­munit­ies and demo­crat­ic ini­ti­at­ives need in order to cope with com­plex changes and (re)build func­tion­ing com­munit­ies? As a Seni­or Fel­low of Human­ity in Action (HIA), as a mem­ber of the Lead­ing Change Net­work and the Rad­ic­al Daugh­ters, and as part of the SCHOOL OF POLIT­IC­AL HOPE, she deals with this ques­tion in change pro­cesses, con­sult­ing, and training.

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Csenge Schneider-Lonhart | She/They

Polit­ic­al Theat­er Maker & Cul­tur­al Organizer

Csen­ge is a cul­tur­al organ­izer and act­iv­ist ded­ic­ated to build­ing strong, transna­tion­al and inter­sec­tion­al net­works that strengthen solid­ar­ity across move­ments at European Altern­at­ives Ber­lin and for the SCHOOL OF POLIT­IC­AL HOPE. She stud­ied theatre in Cluj, Romania, while act­ively fight­ing in the loc­al hous­ing move­ment with Social Hous­ing Now and the European Action Coali­tion against urb­an gentri­fic­a­tion and dis­place­ment, and for the right to hous­ing and to the city, an exper­i­ence that shaped her com­mit­ment to the arts, edu­ca­tion, and polit­ics. She believes in the power of care, trust, and cre­ativ­ity as fun­da­ment­al tools for social change and res­ist­ance against ali­en­a­tion and xenophobia.

Max Gede | He/Him

Cre­at­ive Dir­ect­or & Com­munity Educator

Max Gede, who comes from a Rus­si­an-Ger­man fam­ily, is a cre­at­ive dir­ect­or, graph­ic & game design­er, and polit­ic­al edu­cat­or. He is par­tic­u­larly inter­ested in the play­ful design of social, edu­ca­tion­al, and organ­isa­tion­al trans­form­a­tions for diverse and demo­crat­ic soci­et­ies. He co-foun­ded the demo­cracy ini­ti­at­ive Sprich e.V. and the SCHOOL OF POLIT­IC­AL HOPE. He also worked as Cre­at­ive Dir­ect­or for the pan-European move­ment DiEM25, where he developed and imple­men­ted par­ti­cip­at­ory com­mu­nic­a­tion and cam­paign­ing strategies. He is lead­ing a game design team at the NS Doc­u­ment­a­tion Centre in Cologne, which is devel­op­ing an inter­act­ive game app for polit­ic­al edu­ca­tion in schools. As a polit­ic­al edu­cat­or, he works in par­tic­u­lar with Rus­si­an and Ukrain­i­an com­munit­ies for the BVRE and the bbt on migra­tion, anti-dis­crim­in­a­tion, and the cul­ture of remembrance.

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Elisa Calosi | She/Her

Cul­tur­al Man­ager & SOMAT­IC BODYWORKER

Elisa stud­ied Media – Cul­ture – Com­mu­nic­a­tion in Ger­many, France, and Bul­garia. From 2012 to 2014 she was head of the Art and Cul­ture Depart­ment of the Inter­na­tion­al Eli­as Canetti Soci­ety in Ruse, Bul­garia. In 2015, she was Fel­low for Art Coordin­a­tion at the Akademie Schloss Solitude. She developed and man­aged numer­ous pro­jects, from lit­er­at­ure fest­ivals to art exhib­i­tions, theat­er per­form­ances, and films, with a focus on inclus­ive and par­ti­cip­at­ory formats. Since 2016, she has been liv­ing in Ber­lin again and works as a freel­ance cul­tur­al man­ager for the IIPM – Inter­na­tion­al Insti­tute of Polit­ic­al Murder, the SCHOOL OF POLIT­IC­AL HOPE, and oth­er cul­tur­al insti­tu­tions and polit­ic­al organisations. 

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