Meet our team

Anna is a Berlin-based independent researcher and academic focusing on critical theory, race critical theories, gender and sexuality, cultural theory, settler /colonial theories and psychoanalysis. She works as a lay-judge in Berlin and she still carries her dog Toni everywhere in hear heart. She strongly believes in not eating animals and believes that education and radical politics of emancipation are a way to improve this world.

She speaks German, English, French, and broken Arabic.

Annika is a cultural anthropologist and researcher based in Boston and Istanbul. She believes that social change can come through offering critical analysis and creating emancipatory political, social and cultural initiatives. Having worked in social circus projects from Afghanistan to Thailand, she believes that making knowledge accessible is a creative endeavor that necessitates understanding a multiplicity of perspectives.

She speaks German, Persian and English.

Atria is Madrid-based and strongly believes that feminism applied to development and humanitarian action is an urgent priority. She is thrilled to work for Arqaam, where people are passionate, professional and collaborative.

She speaks Spanish and English.

Clara is a Leipzig-based social scientist with a background in communication and media studies and first experience in practice-oriented sustainability research. Due to her interest in the interdependencies between people, places and the environment, she is pursuing a master’s degree in human geography. She is passionate about rural development – in Germany as well as in the Global South. Thinking gender and sustainability together is an approach Clara wants to focus on.

Frederike is a Germany based evaluator excited about evidence informed decision making and – learning. She loves working with youth-led NGOs, CSOs and start ups, including in the fields of civic tech and digital peace building. She specialises in the hard to measure and is interested in further developing existing participatory evaluation techniques to help implementers and beneficiaries identify and report outcomes that they find significant.

She speaks English, French, Portuguese and German.

Heidi is an Australian based in Turkey. With a background in journalism and communications in both the corporate and not-for-profit sectors, she is currently completing a Masters of International Development. Heidi is passionate about gender equality and sustainable, community-led development.

She speaks English and is learning Turkish.

Kinza is a self-motivated and success driven Independent Consultant based in Pakistan. She has a wealth of international industry experience in the private and public sector, on a wide range of climate change, human rights and environmental projects. She’s passionate about helping cities, organisations and communities transition towards a low-carbon, gender inclusive and circular economy. Her key areas of work and interests include helping organisations accelerate sustainable finance, energy transition and achieve net zero emission targets. She’s vegan for the planet and thrives to be a driver for change.

She speaks English, Urdu, Punjabi and Hindi.

Myriam is a French social science researcher and project manager based in Germany. Her objective is to contribute to the design and implementation of programmes with a positive social impact, in and outside of Europe. To do so, she uses management and evaluation methods that empower the targeted populations, by ensuring they have ownership over programme & project outcomes.

She speaks French, English, and German.

Paniz is a Leipzig-based independent feminist researcher and consultant in the field of gender, migration and labour (geo)politics. She is passionate about centre-staging marginalised knowledges through decolonising practices and learning transnationally from and with activists and communal stakeholders about sensible and sustainable ways to foster social transformation.

She speaks Farsi, German and English.