Member Directory

Lucio Piccoli is an activist from Bloque Latinoamericano Berlin and scholar interested in housing, history of architecture and urbanism

Shuruq Josting is a German-Palestinian student and researcher based in Berlin. Throughout her studies and in much of their work their focus has been to better understand the intersections of the Palestinian struggle and other movements for liberation and justice. As an activist, Shuruq previously organized with a variety of grassroots initiatives in and beyond Berlin. In 2020, she was one of the co-founders of the Zait wa Za3tar Festival, a festival celebrating Palestinian arts and culture and hosted a panel discussion on Palestinian feminisms. Shuruq also hosts a podcast called “Area D – Decolonizing with Palestine”.

Laura Miles was a senior lecturer in social science and a former National Executive Committee member and National Negotiator for the University and College Union in the UK. She is the author of Transgender Resistance: Socialism and the fight for trans liberation and a number of pamphlets and articles addressing LGBT+ issues. She is a longstanding member of the Socialist Workers Party.

Miho Soon is a Berlin-based independent researcher & designer from Malaysia. Her work focuses on the systemic impact of financial and economic trauma. She runs workshops around trauma-informed economic activism, and currently writes the Money Trauma newsletter, and is preparing to launch the Beyond Money Trauma podcast https://beyondmoneytrauma.org/

Markus Jögiches is a resume writer, aspiring journalist and part-time football fan.

Evan Bermel was born and raised in San Diego California. Today he is a Bachelor student for politics and law and a member of DIE LINKE Berlin, Linksjugend [Solid’], Deutscher Hanfverband, and the trade union “Ver.di”. For years he was active in the Berlin group of the Deutscher Hanfverband.

Rasha Al Jundi, a Palestinian documentary photographer based between Nairobi and Berlin

Lana Birley is a journalism graduate who lived in Germany when on the Erasmus programme.