Academy of Migrant Organizing

Ali is a human rights activist from Iran, who is living in Germany. He has been an activist of Amnesty International for 5 years and of Fridays for Future Europe since 2018 now, and currently he is busy with evacuating activists at risk from Afghanistan. Apart from this Ali is a member of Grüne Jugend Deutschland and the Steering Committee of the Global Young Greens as well as its Regional Coordinator for Europe.

Anna Krenz (she/her) was born in 1976 in Poznań (Poland). She is an artist, architect, author and activist based in Berlin. She graduated from the Faculty of Architecture at the Poznan University of Technology and completed her Master’s degree at the Architectural Association in London. Anna is the founder and member of the informal activist collective Dziewuchy Berlin, chairwoman of Ambasada Polek e.V., and member of the Sinus_3 design studio. Since 2001, Anna works for Nordic Folkecenter for Renewable Energy (Denmark).

Berena Yogarajah is a political activist and educator based in Cologne. She has mainly been active in anti-racist struggles in Germany. She is primarily concerned with identity politics and utopia. Observing that some debates around anti-racism make us paralyzed instead of powerful, determined and witted, has influenced her work strongly. Therefore, her political work focuses on overcoming social hardships and fears towards social justice.

Daniel is a movement researcher and organizing trainer focused on the problem of workers’ organization, power, and strategy. He has participated in workplace, migrant, and housing struggles in the United States and Germany. Through the Werkstatt für Bewegungsbildung, he facilitates spaces where ordinary people can experiment with toolboxes that help them build rewarding, resilient, and politically effective organizations. As a co-host at Spadework podcast, he helps circulate organizing insight more broadly. He lives in Berlin.

Karam, born and raised in Damascus, Syria before moving with family to Amman, Jordan. Started his academic career as an English language student at the Arab College in Amman. After graduating in 2011, Karam started his Bachelor’s degree at Hashemite University in Zarqa City, Jordan, specializing in literature and cultural studies. Beside studies, he was an active member of the university theatre, which qualified him to play in several international theatre festivals. In 2013, he graduated from Hashemite University and started to work with ActionAid ARI as a Community Mobilizer at the Zataree refugee camp. Currently he is focusing on his on research in Social Anthropology, refugeness, migration after myth and its implications on mental health for new comers.

Tarek Shukrallah (they/them) is an activist, educator, community organizer, writer and researcher based in Berlin. Tarek is a PhD student at the Doctoral School for Intersectionality Studies of the University of Bayreuth with a focus on intersectionality studies, queer studies, postcolonial studies, and queer of Color critique, and a lecturer at the Political Science Department of Philipps University Marburg. Tarek is active in political struggles against exploitation and oppression from a queer of Color perspective.

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Vincent is a Berlin-based musician, author and activist working at the intersection of art and politics. In recent years, his artistic and political projects have focused in particular on migration, flight, decolonisation, exploitation and resistance, as well as the search for positive visions for a just society in which we can all be different without fear. Vincent is a member of numerous civil society initiatives such as the NSU Tribunal and the Initiative Black People in Germany (ISD-Bund e.V.). His publications include the audio walks "ZURÜCKerzählt" and "Unser Land. Punkt", the theater performance "Eigensinnige Leben" as well as the anti-racist music-pedagogical writing "Africa Bling Bling Hakuna Matata".

Yağmur was born in Izmir, Turkey, and moved to Germany when she was 21 years old, to continue her studies, which she had started in Istanbul. She has been involved in activism for a long time and she was mostly influenced by the Gezi Park demonstrations, which she experienced when she was 18. She worked as a journalist for different media and right now works for a human rights organization and is active at the campaign Deutsche Wohnen und Co. Enteignen, which focuses to expropriate private housing companies in Berlin.

Zeynep Karlıdağ is a former rider for Gorillas and one of the founding members of the Gorillas Workers Collective. She is currently pursuing her master’s at Friedrich Schiller University Jena and working as a student research assistant for Fairwork project, based at the Oxford Internet Institute and the WZB Berlin Social Science Center.