By United Citizens of Europe
The podcast currently has 36 episodes available.
In this week's episode, Sarah Durieux tells us a bit about her time at Change.org and the lessons she learned during her years there, starting as campaign manager until she became Executive Director. She is now co-director at Multitudes and still working on helping out people in campaign organizing.
Many people are precluded from the possibility of running an effective political campaign because of a lack of funding or a lack of connections/networking. Multitudes' goal is to be a facilitator and support future changemakers and give a helping hand to people of all backgrounds.
Sarah is also part of the 2020 cohort of the Obama Leaders Program. As Sarah says during the interview, Leadership Programs are amazing for networking and learning how community organizing works in other countries.
Sarah gave many useful tips on how to become an effective changemaker.
Host of the episode: Luca De Cristofaro
Guest: Sarah Durieux
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What will a Lula-led Brazil look like and what will it mean for Europe? What will happen to the EU-Mercosur agreement?
In this episode, Caterina Bruno and Bianca Cunha help us understand what is going on in Brazil, what happened to Lula and we try to foresee Brazil's role on the international stage.
Host of the episode: Luca De Cristofaro
Guests: Caterina Bruno, Bianca Cunha
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In this episode, we have the pleasure of speaking with Maria Mayrhofer, founder and executive director of Aufstehn.
The digital-fist organization takes the best of both worlds, and Maria explains why their online presence is fundamental to their in-person demonstrations.
Aufstehn can definitely be considered a success story, which is why Maria is part of the 2022 Obama Foundation Leaders of Europe.
You can follow Aufstehn here
Host of the episode: Luca De Cristofaro
Guests: Maria Mayrhofer, #Aufstehn
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In this episode, we discussed the results of the elections recently held in Italy.
The fear of a restriction of civil rights is growing amongst minorities in Italy. The LGBTQI+ community, women and migrants are the ones who might be the most targeted for possible repercussions. Despite Giorgia Meloni's possibility to become Italy's first female prime minister, many women fear her conservative views will put in danger the accessibility to safe abortions in Italy, as it already happened in the region of Marche, governed by Fratelli d'Italia.
Guests: Alessandra Santoro and Giuseppe Lipari
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This week's episode is dedicated to understanding what is going on in Ukraine and Putin's decision to invade the country.
Our second guest is M.B., whose identity is not disclosed as she is doing a traineeship in an institution in Kyiv and, as we did not have the greenlight for the interview by the institution, she prefers to stay anonymous. She also added that everything she says is her own view and do not express the views of the institution she is working for.
Guests: Diplomat Guido Lezzi and our informant M.B.
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In this episode, we talked with Beatrice Chioccioli about her life working in the humanitarian field and how easy this sector can lead to burnout. We also discussed how and why she founded her Paris-based NGO that helps migrants and asylum seekers in the French capital (and now in Europe). Lastly, we briefly talked about who are the LinkedIn job fairies.
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Host of the episode: Luca De Cristofaro
Guest: Beatrice Chioccioli
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Trigger Warning:
In this episode, we discussed with Loredana Speranza this topic which is often overlooked and minimized. Loredana decided to focus her MA thesis research on this issue as she found it was not talked about enough. Her case study was the Syrian conflict.
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Host of the episode: Luca De Cristofaro
Guest: Loredana Speranza
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In this episode, we have a lovely chat with Laura Degiovanni, CEO and founder of TiiQu. Laura is an Italian national with an international mindset who founded her start-up in the post-Brexit UK.
TiiQu's mission is to "provide every individual with the tools to test and prove who they are, crystallize their knowledge and professional evolution into blockchain-based proofs, and benefit from a shareable, privacy-preserving reputation".
We talked about founding a company in the UK as a EU citizen, how the current pandemic affected her company and why she started the company, among other things!
Sorry for my voice in the intro, I have a bit of a sore throat. Hope you enjoy the interview!
Host of the episode: Luca De Cristofaro
Guest: Laura Degiovanni, TiiQu
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This week we gathered some testimonies on the access to the COVID-19 vaccines of non-Europeans living in the EU and EU nationals living outside EU borders.
Emil Aaji told us about his experience in Sweden.
Qingya Wei, a Chinese student living in Groningen, shared with us her experience about booking the vaccine in the Netherlands.
Our Graphic Designer, Anton Meshkov, also shared his issues with booking the vaccine as a Russian living in France.
Tadiwa Mwash, our first guest of the podcast, also recounts her extensive struggle in getting the right documents to get vaccinated in Milan, Italy.
On the expat side, two Italians shared their experience with us. Arianna shared her experience as a EU-national in the UK post-Brexit and Francesca Sfriso shared her experience as a student living in Taiwan.
Host of the episode: Luca De Cristofaro
Guests: Arianna Grande, Anton Meshkov, Emil Aaji, Francesca Sfriso, Qingya Wei, Tadiwa Mwash.
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This week we had a conversation with Remy Bonny, activist and executive director of Forbidden Colours.
We talked about being an LGBTQI foundation and funding projects for the queer community in Europe, diversity, and the state of LGBTQI rights in the Union.
Host of the episode: Luca De Cristofaro
Guest: Remy Bonny, Forbidden Colours
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The podcast currently has 36 episodes available.