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Nanjira Sambuli

Nanjira Sambuli is a Kenyan researcher and digital strategist. From 2016 to 2020, she led policy advocacy at the World Wide Web Foundation to promote digital equality in access to and use of the web. As an expert on this subject, she advises institutions such as the United Nations and the World Economic Forum on Internet law and digital cooperation, particularly with regard to gender equality. Sambuli collaborated with the Goethe-Institut in 2017 on the presidential election in Nairobi and took part in the Weimar International Cultural Symposium in 2019.

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Nadja Ofuatey-Alazard

Nadja Ofuatey-Alazard is an African-German journalist, curator, cultural manager/activist and public intellectual whose work revolves around (increasing) the visibility, recognition and historical contextualisation of the long presence of populations of African descent and their intellectual and artistic contributions and practices in Germany, Europe and beyond. Since 2017, she has been working as the Co-CEO and artistic director of the Black Empowerment/Advocacy Platform, the Community/Art Centre and the library EACH ONE TEACH ONE (EOTO) in Berlin.

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Tiago Sant’Ana

Tiago Sant’Ana is a Brazilian visual artist, curator and researcher. He is currently completing a PhD in Culture and Society. His works as an artist are imbued with the tensions and representations of Afro-Brazilian identities influenced by decolonial perspectives. He has worked with the Goethe-Institut on a series of projects and publications.

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José Luís Mendonça

José Luís Mendonça is an Angolan journalist, editor-in-chief of the biweekly magazine Cultura and author of a weekly opinion column. He graduated in Law and published volumes of poetry, a novel and a selection of short stories. He is further committed to teaching Portuguese and the development of primary education and reading projects.

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Aldeide Delgado

Aldeide Delgado is a Cuban art historian, curator and researcher. Her work focuses on ethnic identity, feminism and the representation of women in the visual arts. She founded and runs the Women Photographers International Archive (WOPHA). She has worked with the Goethe-Institut on a series of publications for the magazine Contemporary And América Latina.

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Eliphas Nyamogo

Eliphas Nyamogo is currently the head of the online editorial office in Munich. He previously worked as the head of information and library services at the Goethe-Institut in Nairobi from 2002 to 2017 before moving to the headquarters of the Goethe-Institut as an online editorial consultant. Together with the editorial team, he developed the project Latitude. He continues to curate the content and develop other formats for publication in the magazine.

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Stephanie Müller

Stephanie Müller joined the online editorial team at the Goethe-Institut headquarter in January 2021. She is responsible for the editorial supervision and the development of new formats for the Latitude magazine.

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Regine Hader

Regine Hader is a member of the online editorial team at the Goethe-Institut headquarters. ​She is responsible for the development of innovative formats and their editorial realisation.   

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Linda Hügel

As the lead web project manager, Linda Hügel coordinates the planning and implementation of Latitude. She oversees tasks and processes and acts as the interface between the editorial and the technical sides. She developes the concept and design in close cooperation with the design agency and the project team.

Patricia Gugisch-Dolata

There is not a single line on Latitude Patricia Gugisch-Dolata does not know. She creates project descriptions and expert profiles for the website, edits texts by these experts, sheds light on contexts by means of commented picture galleries – and, as a journalist, she is acutely aware of the power that words have when addressing this sensitive issue of postcolonialism which concerns all of humanity.

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Andrea Zell

Andrea Zell works at the headquarters of the Goethe-Institut Munich in the department of Cultural Education and Discourse. She advises and assists the institutes abroad in planning local cultural programmes on current issues, with debates on decolonisation and postcolonialism currently playing a central role. She contributes to the project team of Latitude with her experiences from the cultural programmes of the Goethe-Institutes worldwide.

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Isabel Hölzl

Isabel Hölzl has been heading the Goethe-Institut Finland since 2017, after engagements at the Goethe-Institutes in São Paulo and Munich. Based on her experience in the “global South”, she is working in Finland on the effects of colonialism in Northern Europe. She contributes a series of reflections to Latitude: reflections on intra-European colonial structures and their continued repercussions in a Europe shaped by migration.

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Stefanie Kastner

Stefanie Kastner has worked for the Goethe-Institut since 2003, mostly in the “global South”, and headed the information departments in Rotterdam, Algiers, Abidjan and São Paulo. Since 2017, she has been based in Johannesburg as the head of information of the Goethe-Institutes in sub-Saharan Africa. Kastner is a member of the project team of Latitude and acts in an advisory capacity.
[As of June 2020]

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Alexander Behrmann

Alexander Behrmann is responsible for print and online publishing in the department of Communication at the headquarters of the Goethe-Institut in Munich. He is the deputy head of the communications department, responsible for the cross-media appearance of the topic of postcolonialism and he is involved in the conception of Latitude.

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Regina Sarreiter

Regina Sarreiter has been a consultant in the field of visual arts at the Goethe-Institut headquarters since March 2020. Her work focuses on colonial heritage and museum practice. She was part of the organizing team of the Latitude Festival.

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Soraia Vilela

Soraia Vilela has been working as a web editor at the Goethe-Institut Brazil since 2010. She supervises the Brazilian Portuguese language version of Latitude and contributed to building the expert network.

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Stephanie Hesse

Stephanie Hesse has been the web editor of the Goethe-Institut France since August 2011 and is in charge of the public relations of the library projects at the Goethe-Institut Paris. She coordinates the French language version of Latitude.

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​María Paula Laguna

María Paula Laguna has been working as a web editor at the Goethe-Institut Mexico since November 2020. She supervises the Spanish language version of Latitude.

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Marit Borcherding

Marit Borcherding works in the online editorial office at the Goethe-Institut headquarters. She regularly edits articles for Latitude.

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Miriam Steller

In an advisory capacity, Miriam Steller supported the structural and design development and was the contact person for the technical development of the website. She specified new requirements, communicated these to the developers and was responsible for approving those specifications after their implementation.

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Tatjana Brode

Tatjana Brode was the head of the online editorial office in Munich until the end of October 2020 and, as a digital strategist, she developed, together with the editorial team, projects such as Latitude for the Goethe-Institut. She sees great opportunities in global discourses on important issues such as decolonization/postcolonial societies. In addition to her work for the Goethe-Institut, she is a volunteer editor of the online magazine Carta.info, and this experience inspires her work.

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Eva Fritsch

Eva Fritsch was a member of the online editorial team at the Goethe-Institut headquarters until July 2020. She was responsible for content-based formats and the coordination of different language versions on Latitude.

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Elisa Jochum

Elisa Jochum was a member of the online editorial team at the Goethe-Institut headquarters until August 2020. On Latitude, she was engaged in the development and implementation of formats as well as in the communication with experts.