Since Movement Hub was founded in June 2021, we have grown into a team of 13 people who not only offer important support services to social movements, but are also deeply rooted in social movements as activists themselves. As a result, we are very close to what movements think, discuss and need and can offer short-term and effective support as required.
Our experience comes from climate policy, anti-racist, queerfeminist, housing policy and self-organized migrant struggles.
We believe that social movements are the driving force needed for social change!
Tajem
sier/sien,
they/them
Position at Movement Hub: Finances
Tajem has a degree in landscape management and nature conservation and lived in community projects aroud Berlin for some years, doing ecological agriculture and environmental education workshops. Recently they are taking a more theoretical approach, researching how readers of climate fiction relate to climate change and activism.
Carol
she/her
Position at Movement Hub: Fundraising and Organizing
Carol joined a first nations led blockade of a proposed uranium mine sight in 1996 and has been hooked on social movements ever since. She brings over 20 years of professional experience working for NGO’s Government and a Manufacturing Union in project management partnership building and evaluation alongside participation in a range of social movements in Germany and Australia including housing and climate.
Simon
he/him
Position at Movement Hub: Fundraising, Project Hosting and Organizing
Simon has been involved in social movements and self-organized groups since the 2010s. He worked for a global humanitarian organization and was key in setting up a collective that develops freely accessible digital educational material with open licenses. He loves long train rides and enjoys listening, especially in 1:1 conversations.
Lucas
he/him
Position at Movement Hub: Fundraising
Lucas has been working for several years on issues relating to technological violence, border profiteers, corruption, whistleblowing and propaganda.
Jësse
no pronouns
Position at Movement Hub: Coordination Grants & Services, Media and Web-Support
Jessë has been active in various social movements since 2011. Jessë is particularly interested in building long-term collective and self-organized spaces, transformative community organizing and cross-movement work. Jessë works in public relations, web/design, process work, facilitation, camp and conference organizing, and project management and funding.
Laura
she/her
Position at Movement Hub: Grants & Services and Process
Politically, Laura moves between climate justice, agriculture and struggles in rural areas. Holding and shaping learning and exchange spaces is the common thread of Lauras work to date, which can also be summarized under the keywords education in the context of climate and activism, conflict facilitation, process work and moderation.
MaJo
she/her
Position at Movement Hub: Grants & Services and Process
Majos movement experience includes internationalist, queer-feminist, anticolonial, and climate justice struggles. She is committed to making German social movements more intersectional, with a focus on class and migration realities.
Trang
she/her
Position at Movement Hub: Communications and Fundraising
Trang has been working for several years at the interface between press and public relations/media and political education. Her focus is on feminist and anti-racist issues.
Anna
she/her
Position at Movement Hub: Administration, Fundraising and Project Hosting
Anna lives in Leipzig, has been politically active for many years and has worked in various NGOs and political organizations focusing on the climate crisis.
Cleo
no pronouns
Position at Movement Hub: Finance and Grants & Services
Cleo has been active in self-organised activist groups for many years. Cleo is passionate about climate justice, a free society and places where this is already being realised today. Drawing on Cleos experience from various contexts, they brings a network of contacts and expertise in the areas of facilitation, process organisation, educational work and public relations.
Kathi
she/her
Position at Movement Hub: Communications
Kathi has been active in various self-organized groups, particularly in the field of anti-racism. Since 2015, she has been organizing collective group processes to build a community cultural space in Berlin. She has experience in public relations and political education.
Karla
no pronouns
Position at Movement Hub: Communications
Karla is organized in the climate justice movement in various contexts. Karlas experience and skills lie in the design and conceptualization of strategic public relations, social media and campaigns.
Lotta
no pronouns
Position at Movement Hub: BFD Angel, Grants & Services and Social Media
Lotta joined the first protest when Lotta was 10 and has been actively working to promote solidarity ever since. Lotta became politically active primarily through the climate justice movement, where Lotta acquired various skills in networking, group building, and press and public relations.
The legal entity of the Movement Hub is Plan:B e.V., based in Berlin. The board of Plan:B e.V. is composed of:
Inken Behrmann
Inken is an activist for climate justice, feminism and the the transition of our mobility sector. To discuss strategic issues in the social movement space more broadly, she hosts the podcast “Was tun?”. As a board member of Plan:B e.V., it is important for her to support grassroots initiatives as quickly and easily as possible.
Adelaide Ivánova
Adelaide is a poet and activist from northeastern Brazil. She has lived in Germany since 2011 and since 2019 she has been active in „Deutsche Wohnen und Co. Enteignen“. As a board member of Plan:B e.V., it is important to her to support the perspective of self-organized migrant initiatives in the German context in the most uncomplicated way possible.
Christopher Laumanns
Christopher is active in the movement for climate justice. He is a member of Ende Gelände, Alle Dörfer Bleiben and the collective wort.wechsel. As a board member of Plan:B e.V., it is important to him that the needs of social movements are the focus of the association’s work.