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manages Diversity Arts Culture and consults the cultural department of the Berlin Senate. She is a cultural studies scholar, curator and equity manager whose work focuses on racism and empowerment in the arts. Her work also examines the power and effects of colonial imagery, politics of the body, and representation and equality in the German speaking arts and cultural sector.

Julia Tonndorf is an anti-discrimination consultant at Diversity Arts Culture. From her previous work as an AGG/anti-bullying officer and as chairwoman of the works council at Dussmann das Kulturkaufhaus, she brings with her diverse and long-standing consulting experience in the field of working life. As a business mediator, she is also familiar with a wide variety of conflicts in the work context. She worked as a freelance tap dancer in the cultural sector for several years.

is responsible for developing awareness raising and empowerment programming. Prior to assuming her current position she was the diversity officer for the Berliner Projektfonds Kulturelle Bildung and worked as a curator for Kulturprojekte Berlin (Interventions  2016 & 2017), Maxim Gorki Theater (Berlin Calling) and Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden. Bahareh Sharifi was part of the conference team, which organized and curated  “Vernetzt Euch! Strategies and Visions for a Critical Practice on Discrimination in the Arts and Cultural Sector“ housed at the Berlin University of the Arts in 2015.

is a political and cultural scientist with a Master of Arts from Kings College London. As a former stage dancer, she knows the cultural industry from the inside and has carried out and supported independent projects in the performing arts in Berlin and London. At Diversity Arts Culture, she was a consultant for disability in arts and culture from 2018 to 2025 and designed training and empowerment programs for cultural workers with disabilities. Since 2025, she has been a consultant for process consulting and accessibility and increasingly advises on transformation processes, inclusion, accessibility and diversity development. She also works as a freelance process consultant, trainer and access consultant for cultural and civil society organizations.

is responsible for the empowerment program for artists and cultural practitioners with disabilities. She graduated in cultural education and worked as an inclusion and accessibility consultant at Un-Label in Cologne. Her focus was on the "Access Maker" project, a three-year project for inclusive opening processes at the theater. She is also a coordinator and board member of the nationwide INK - Inklusives Netzwerk Kultur e.V. and works as a freelance consultant in the field of inclusive performing arts.

is a literary scholar. She has worked for the press and PR team at Schauspiel Frankfurt and the Brandenburg Association of Music and Art Schools as well as editorially for Theater der Zeit and Unionsverlag. At Diversity Arts Culture she was responsible for the conception and implementation of the barrier-free website, among other things. She is part of the control group of FAIRSTAGE and advises cultural institutions on diversity development.

works at Diversity Arts Culture as a communications officer for digital media and studies musicology. At the theater Ballhaus Naunynstraße, she worked in the press and PR team. As a freelance journalist, she wrote on music-related topics and has contributed to Missy Magazine, taz and SWR2, among others. Neneh is also active as a musician herself.

is an actress and scholar of cultural studies. At Diversity Arts Culture she coordinates the workshop program for the area of awareness/anti-discrimination, is part of the control group of FAIRSTAGE and advises cultural institutions on diversity development. Lisa Scheibner was part of the organizing and curating team of the conference "Vernetzt euch! Strategies and Visions for an Art and Culture Scene Critical of Discrimination" (2015). In 2016/17 she served as production manager of the conference "Interventions". She has worked as a freelance actress in various ensembles.

is a music producer, musician and cultural manager. He works as an officer for awareness and is responsible for the administrative tasks at Diversity Arts Culture. As a project manager and fundraiser, he developed projects such as the “OrienTunes” festival, the inclusive street festival “Uhlandstraßenfest” and “Crossing Borders - Musik überwindet Grenzen” in collaboration with the Babylon Orchestra and together with marginalized cultural actors and cultural institutions. He has also been involved in cultural education cooperation projects at elementary schools in Berlin.