Wadzanai Motsi-Khatai holds a BA in International Relations from Grinnell College and is currently pursuing her Master in Public Administration at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin. She has several years of experience working with government, international non-profit organizations, as well as community organizations. Her diverse professional experience includes working with the Government of Zimbabwe to develop national strategies for HIV testing, and treatment for children, working with young political activists in Tunisia, Egypt, Ghana, the Czech Republic and Cambodia, as well as building a community for a circular economy in Berlin, Germany. She is also a regular contributor to the African Affairs Forum in Germany, and initiator of the Sangano Hub, both projects aimed at connecting African policy experts and entrepreneurs, in the German diaspora. Wadzanai is committed to building a more inclusive, mindful and socially just world and collaborating with communities to create new models for living and working together.

I grew up in Dhaka, Bangladesh. I have been involved with the anti-coal movement in Bangladesh from 2012 that started in response to Bangladesh Government's plan to increase share of coal from 3% to 37% in the national energy source composition. During my high school to university years I was involved with a student organisation that were mobilising to protest privatisation of public sectors like health and education according to IMF and World Bank's Structural Adjustment Plan. I studied Economics, and later specialised in International and Development Economics to gain a deeper understanding of the unequal trade relations and International Development co-operations. I have worked with two of world's leading development NGO- BRAC and ActionAid. My study and professional experience brought me to the realisation of limitation of both the economics theories and development discourse in addressing the increasing wealth inequality and ecological collapse that the world is facing today. I started getting involved with the Degrowth and Climate movement as a response to my understanding. At the moment I am working with the international climate campaigning NGO - 350.org. I focus on networking and mobilising the different diaspora groups to amplify their communities' struggle and bring those struggles at the forefront of the climate movement.

Rebecca Abena Kennedy-Asante Studied naturopathy, nature conservation and ecology in Berlin and Potsdam. In addition to botany, Abeni is interested in movements that are anti-racist, queer*feminist and ecological.

Karin Louise Hermes is a PhD Candidate in American Studies at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. She has an MA in Pacific Islands Studies from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa with a focus on cultural identities and national consciousness in urban Papua New Guinea, and a BA in Ethnology & Sociology from the University of Heidelberg. Her PhD project titled “Conflicting Epistemologies on the Relation to the Land in Hawai‘i” on human-environment relations focusses on the Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) concept of “aloha ‘āina” (“love of the land”). She has lived in Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines and Hawai‘i.