What are your professional milestones?

• Studies: Political Science and Cultural and Social Anthropology in Münster. International Master’s program “Global Studies”, among others in Berlin with a foundation scholarship. So I have lived, studied or worked in various countries in five different continents and gained valuable experiences that have made me grow personally and professionally.
• Work experience: Project-related development cooperation, especially development education work. Project work in the field of migration and integration in Berlin as well as freelance as an educational consultant.
• Further education and basics, which shape me and my work: Intercultural communication and change of perspective, empathy, self-reflection and privilege awareness. Mediation, embodiment, design thinking, systemic organizational development, agile management, (systemic) coaching and non-violent communication.

What is your most defining career experience?

In general: recognizing how much my socialization as a woman from a working:class family shaped me, my self-esteem and appearance, and emancipating myself.

Specifically: One of my most formative and recent experiences: Having the courage and self-awareness to stop doing something when it doesn’t feel right and isn’t good for me. Knowing in that moment and also having it confirmed a year later: It was the right decision.

What do you recommend to applicants for the Femtec Career-Building Programme?

I wish I had had more confidence earlier (professionally and academically). And that’s what I wish for the applicants, too: Recognize, value and develop themselves and their own potential. Also, and in particular, to recognize the strengths that we ourselves do not perceive as strengths at all, but rather as things we take for granted. Because these are not a matter of course, but something special.