Coordinators

Hi! My name is Katha (she/her) and I am one of the coordinators at OtherWise. This role brings me a lot of connection – to people and their ideas, seeing through the eyes of more-than-human creatures, and inviting play and ritual into our work. I am curious about how we can sense, relate, and imagine other ways of being in the world we are part of. I aim to do this by exploring arts, somatics & body movement, and rituals as pedagogical experiments for collective transformation. How can we invite uncomfortable sensations & emotions into collective spaces to disinvest from the ways modernity and colonialism have conditioned us to act out separation, progress, and supremacy? I am active in the Palestine solidarity movement, organize educational events, and support food sovereignty in the West Bank. I am always up for cuddling cats and stretching. My (proud) pleasure is eating warm pastries straight from the oven. And tahini. Which also means I like experimenting with food and herbal medicine, from growing, to preserving, to saving seeds.

I'm Ania (she/her), the new coordinator of OtherWise from November onwards :) Previously I was with OtherWise for three years as a board member, and with time I've only grown to become more enchanted by all that we create together as an organization. My main topics of interest are spiritual ecology, decoloniality, degrowth, and anarchism, although I'm quite excited with our other theme areas as well. Outside of my role as a coordinator, I'm a meditation guide, writer and artist; weaving alternative realities and imaginations whilst challenging our dual conceptions of nature/culture.

Interns

Hi, I am Foxie (they/them). I will be joining the lovely team of OtherWise as an intern. 

I have been involved in different social movements over the past years from the climate movement to squatting to the pro-Palestinian movement. In these groups, I often bumped into the importance of community, of being together and caring for each other. They are the basis and make it able to not only make the change but also embody and already practice the change that we want to see in the world. This is why Luca and I will organize a course in January on Community Building in Activist Movements. 

I'm Luca (he/him) and am excited to join OtherWise as an Intern this September.

I'm currently active in the Palestine movement and am passionate about community building and movement well-being.

Together with Foxie, we get the chance to realise a passion project of ours, namely a Capital Selecta on Community Building in Activist Movements, where we will turn ourselves into laboratories of transformation and experiment with inner shifts as seeds of new possibility for the larger contexts we’re part of. 

Board Members

Ian here :) I have joined OtherWise this September as a board member. I was drawn here through their events on degrowth and the Capitalist Realism course. I am very interested in the ecological and social impacts of capitalism and the connection to hierarchical human-nature relations. For my internship last year, I created a Capita Selecta course on Degrowth where we explored the anti-capitalist movement from different perspectives.

Hi everyone, my name is Eleni (she/her) and this is the second year being an Otherwise Board member. I am doing a Master's in Food Technology and currently exploring food not as a market-commodity but as a human right and how we can build resilient and socially just food systems. I also see food as an educational tool, source of play and a way to activate our senses. In my everyday life I love taking care of my microbiome, my plants and my people. I spent my last two summers volunteering in off grid eco-villages in my home country, Greece, and abroad discovering how valuable and necessary is communal living, communal healing and collective care. As a member of Otherwise I am excited to contribute to this safe space with artistic collective activities that explore feelings and aspects of mental health, self-love and our relationship with the non-human of this planet.

Hey there! My name is  Teresa  (she/her) and I am a recent graduate at WUR. I'm sticking around as an Otherwise board member and gardener. I am passionate about ecofeminism, textile arts and cultivating spaces of community, resistance and (more-than human) connection through ritual and traditional knowledges. I hope to explore these themes and so much more the coming year as a board member :)

Hey there! I am Pike and I am the treasurer of OtherWise. I was a student of WUR until a few years ago and did my internship with OtherWise, organizing the Capitalist Realism course. After my master’s, I somehow decided I wasn’t finished and I am now back in Germany studying to become a social worker. However, I stuck around and am a board member to this day, managing our finances from a safe distance.

Sara (she/her) is joining us in her second year as a board member. She is passionate about exploring other ways of knowing and being, shifting ecologies, the more-than human perspectives, and pluriversality. Sara also uses sound and music to explore these themes.