Category Team: Trainer Network

Maria

Maria (she/her). Interested in sharing her enthusiasm for free software, cybersecurity and solutions for the internet without greedy corporations. Works with feminist and no border movements in Poland and western Europe. She was graduated in Electronics and Telecommunication.

Zsófi

Zsófi has been passionate about social and climate justice since her teenage years. She has been involved in Hungarian activism, focusing on economic democracy, mental health, and green sustainability. She volunteered during the founding of Hungary’s first green party and was a member of the Gólya Cooperative from its establishment. After leaving Gólya, she directed […]

Marika

Marika cce trainer

Marika (she/they) is organizer, trainer and facilitator in the climate justice movement in Czech republic. After being involved in grassroot group Limity jsme my for 5 years and organizing several climate camps, she moved to the coal region in Northern Bohemia, where she organizes local communities for just transition from fossil fuels. She worked in Re-set: […]

Jakub Mácha

Jakub (he/him) works at the interface between social movements, academia, and non-formal education. His journey began at anti-fascist blockades, later he became involved in the climate justice movement and the Limity jsme my movement organizing climate camps in Czech coal regions. Those included both collective education and direct actions against fossil fuel infrastructure. Alongside this, he worked for […]

Mónika Bálint

Lives in Budapest, community organizer, and director of Civil College Foundation.  Organizers of the Clear Vote coalition and campaign, to prepare local communities and a network of activists to understand and oppose voter fraud and illegal influence on constituencies. Has experience in neighbourhood organizing, green politics, union organizing, building coalitions and networks, and interest in […]

Mina Jack Tolu

Mina Jack (neutral or masc pronouns) is a trans and non-binary activist, politician, consultant, thinker, writer, and artist from the Mediterranean. They’ve been working on developing campaigns, raising awareness, and storytelling on LGBTQI rights, green politics, electoral campaigns, and roller derby for just over a decade. Mina Jack has delivered workshops on LGBTQI rights, feminist […]

Ralph Underhill

Ralph underhill is communications consultant and trainer specialising in framing – using insights from social psychology and linguistics to help charities and grass roots organisations create messages that better motivate their audiences. Based in Scotland in the UK, he has run workshops and trainings for over a decade and written several communication guides including A […]

Masha Burina

Masha is a social movement organizer and educator, originally from Bosnia and Herzegovina, raised in the United States and now calls Berlin home. Over two decades, she’s organized fast food workers in the Fight for $15, youth for truth and reconciliation in the Balkans, transit riders in NYC, Berliners for refugee rights, and communities for […]

Neus

Neus has been passionate about education since she was 8 years old and went dumpster diving in teachers’ recycling bins for worksheets to help other students learn at break-time. She moved from Castellon to Scotland to study Community Education, with a focus on youth work and adult education, where she co-founded The New Leaf Co-op, […]

Gorana Jovanovic

Gorana is an educator and organizer from Serbia part of the training team of the European Community Organizing Network (ECON). She learned community organizing at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government Executive Education course “Leadership, Organizing and Action” by Marshall Ganz. Since then, she has held over 30 community organizing trainings in various areas, such […]

Margaret Amaka Ohia-Nowak

Margaret Amaka Ohia-Nowak is a racial justice activist, trainer and facilitator, scholar, and educator on racism and anti-racism in Poland with over 15 years of experience. Her approach to teaching is holistic, intersectional and decolonial. She uses cognitive and emotional learning, bodywork and somatic methods. Amaka has advocated and organized for Black, African and Afro-descendant communities […]

Mika

Mika (she/they): Woven with the seeds of my white migration family stories, I joined my first grassroots group 25 years ago. Today, I am a trainer and facilitator as part of the Berlin-based collective Movement School – Bewegungsschule (https://bewegungsschule.org/). Bewegungsschule is integrating Transformative Organizing, intersectionality, Training for Change (https://www.trainingforchange.org/) methodology and Processwork. I’m an organizer for a labor union and constantly learning […]

Jayjay (Jay Jordan)

Jay (formerly John) Jordan (they/them) is labelled a “Domestic Extremist” by the police, and “a magician of rebellion” by the press. Part-time author, sex worker and full time trouble maker, Jay is a lover of edges, especially between art and activism. They Co-founded Reclaim the street and the clown army, have choreographed carnivalesque riots, written a […]

Katherine Wall

Katherine Wall (she/they) is a facilitator, political educator and researcher with a focus on building collective liberation in our society, in our groups and organisations and in ourselves. They have worked with social movements to understand and address oppression in its many forms. Katherine is part of the facilitation and training collective called Resist+Renew. She […]

Yas Necati

I’m the workshop lead at PIRC, and a geek for learning that centres participants—their experiences, knowledge, skills and creativity. I’m really excited about designing and delivering our workshops with this at the forefront, and doing my own learning along the way. Some things I’m particularly interested in are reframing trans liberation and how we talk […]

Marina Tota

Marina is an educator, organizer, activist, and researcher committed to build people power for a just and regenerative society. She has a background in psychology and education and about 10 years’ international experience in facilitating transformative learning processes with movements, civil society groups, and international organisations. Originally from Italy, she has lived and worked most […]

Fergal Finnegan

Fergal is a senior lecturer at the Department of Adult and Community Education, Maynooth, National University of Ireland and is a co-director of the Doctorate in Higher and Adult Education and the PhD in Adult and Community Education programmes. Fergal has been involved in campaigns and social movements most of his adult life. He worked […]

Niccolo Milanese

Niccolo is a director of European Alternatives. He has worked throughout Europe and North Africa networking movements, civil society, academics and artists, with a particular focus on the place of imagination and strategic foresight in opening up a pathway to change. He has been involved in founding various organisations, magazines, festivals and movements on both […]

Jana

Jana is a facilitator, activist and organiser dedicated to creating transformative learning spaces and building capacity to collaboratively strategise for system change. With a background in education, she has a passion for critical and experiential pedagogy and research interest in how social movements learn and engage in counter-hegemonic knowledge production. Organising in different networks across […]

Toni Spencer

Toni works with WildWise (‘Being Nature’ and Call Of The Wild), Ulex, The Emergence Network and Tough Cookie amongst others. She has an Action Research based MSc in Responsibility and Business Practice and is trained in a range of facilitation modalities; embodied awakening, deep ecology, trauma informed leadership, The Work That Reconnects. She says that […]

European Alternatives

European Alternatives works to promote democracy, equality and culture beyond the nation-state and imagine, demand and enact alternatives for a viable future for Europe. They: articulate a radical, long-term vision of democratic, just and culturally-open politics, society and culture beyond the nation-state for Europe and for the world; experiment with forms of action that contribute to transformative change in political […]

Nontokozo Sedibe

Nontokozo says: I have always been passionate about building community, inner engineering, group dynamics, motivating and empowering others. I enjoy tackling women issues, building bridges of hope and healing between Africa & Europe and beyond, I love sharing knowledge on conscious living, advocating for climate and social justice, and regenerative education. My work  includes education […]

Tashy Endres

Tashy Endres has 18 years of experience in movements for social and spatial justice. This includes long-standing involvements in the movement of unemployed and landless workers in Buenos Aires, Occupy Wall Street in New York City, Decolonizing Architecture in Bethlehem, Kotti & Co (a tenants initiative in the Berlin social housing system), Berlin Rent Referendum […]

Meera Ghani

Meera is an activist, facilitator and community builder. After 2 decades of working in activism and non-profit work on climate justice, racial equity, children’s rights, and human rights across her native Pakistan and now home Europe, Meera realized that we can’t move the needle on the things that matter if we don’t take the time to […]

Hilal

Hilal Demir, an anarcha-queer DJing at home is an activist, trainer, facilitator for 20 + years and has experience on organizing, strategizing on nonviolent direct action, campaign and social movement levels, working with power, active solidarity, resilience, repression and security. She is passionate about leading informal learning experiences, community organizing, group dynamics and organisational cultures, […]