Higher Education

2015 - 2021
MA, Development Studies, University of Vienna, Austria

Master Thesis: “How does a civic organisation promote social transformation?” 

2012 - 2015
B.A., Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology/Sociology, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany

Bachelor Thesis: “Creative Cape Town – regulating and reacting within the global competition of creative industries.”

Extracurricular Activities

June 2020 – Dec. 2020
Regional Academy on the United Nations (RAUN), “Partnership and Cooperation for the Future: 75 Years of UN Action” - Transdisciplinary Research Project with Mentorship by the Ban Ki-moon Centre for Global Citizens

July 2016 – Dec. 2016
Semester Abroad (Free Mover) Stellenbosch University (South Africa)

Sept. 2014 – Oct. 2014
Ethnographic Field Research for Bachelor’s Thesis (Cape Town, South Africa)

Voluntary enaggement and other projects

Since April 2019

Volunteer Project Management and Coordination, Cooperation and Documentation Center for Southern Africa, Vienna

Project Management:

• Annual Cultural Walk on International Nelson Mandela Day, Seestadt Vienna (since 2019)
• Dialogue project “Encounter with Southern Africa – Work and Life in a Global Context,” funded by the Austrian Development Agency (2022–2023)

Coordination of various activities:

• Member management and correspondence
• Grant management
• Coordination of the “Southern Africa Forum”