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.

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.

Lucy Alice Thomas is a multidisciplinary consultant, facilitator, and social movement activist whose work focuses on building sustainable, intersectional, and community-based infrastructures for social and cultural change. After her time as founding Director of Give Something Back to Berlin, she went on to co-initiate the Women*s Funding Initiative and the Fundraising as Movement Work event series. In recent years, she has worked with grassroots initiatives and established NGOs in Germany and internationally, supporting collaboration, funding strategy, and organisational development across movements and sectors. Her practice is grounded in solidarity, collective care and long-term capacity building. (From November 2025, she joins the European Alternatives team to further develop work at the intersection of funding, movement building and programming.

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.

He is a visual artist and performer from Budapest whose work explores queer experiences across local and global contexts, engaging with questions of visibility and identity and weaving personal narratives through a queer lens. Currently completing an internship with European Alternatives, he contributes to design and cultural programming that connects creative practice with social imagination.