About Me
My work revolves around four pillars of systems change: envisioning life-affirming cultures beyond patriarchy, capitalism, white supremacy and all forms of oppression; practicing international solidarity; supporting regenerative, autonomous bioregions; and fostering communities of practice that embody deep cultural transformation.
I was born in Dresden, Germany in 1990 and grew up in post-socialist East Germany. Since my early youth, I’ve been continuously engaged in various struggles—driven by a deep desire for community, justice and a society based on solidarity and care.
At sixteen, I joined a peace and ecology training at Tamera, a peace research center and intentional community in Portugal, where I lived for nineteen years. There, I served as an educator, writer, communications director, curator, event organizer, network steward, and, in later years, as a facilitator, mediator, and co-designer of a distributive governance system. Along the way, I’ve also learned from frontline communities, elders, practitioners, and visionaries around the world who have profoundly shaped my understanding of collective liberation and regeneration.
In 2017, inspired by the #NoDAPL movement at Standing Rock, I co-initiated the “Defend the Sacred Alliance,” bringing together more than a hundred leaders from Indigenous movements, social struggles, and intentional communities worldwide in the quest and practice of sacred activism. Although the alliance no longer exists as a formal entity, the bonds of solidarity and co-learning with my siblings in Kurdistan, Palestine, Latin America, and elsewhere continue to guide my work.
That same period, I co-led a successful campaign that resulted in the cancellation of all fifteen (then existing) contracts for fracking and offshore oil drilling in Portugal. Since then, I’ve helped initiate a regional alliance of water activists and ecological restoration practitioners (2021) and a local watershed community dedicated to regenerative water management in southwest Alentejo (2023).
I’m the co-director of the award-winning documentary Water is Love: Ripples of Regeneration (2025) and animation short How Water Makes Climate (2025).
My writings have appeared in Kosmos Journal, CommonDreams, TruthOut, Films for Action, and other outlets.
My approach towards system change weaves intersectional analysis with radical imagination, animism, somatic trauma awareness and lessons from existing alternatives. My focus is on how communities can actually embody post-capitalist culture—not only as theory, but lived practice.
If you share this inquiry, I invite you to join my upcoming online course (January 15-25) that provides tools for liberation and regeneration.
