• 2020-2023: Project manager, cultural coordinator and assistance at various projects / organisations for cultural education and development (ZiiK, BGZ, GIZ)
• 2018 – 2021: M.A. in Religion and Culture, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
• 2017-2018: Cultural coordinator at Goethe-Institut and DAAD, Accra, Ghana
• 2013 – 2018: B.A. in Musicology and cultural studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany

Schools are formative institutions in which children and adolescents enter into multicultural exchange and negotiation of identity. In times of ever-increasing globalisation and plurality, it is important to acknowledge schools not only as places of education and development, but also as crucial spaces of confrontation, in which discrimination and ‘othering’ occur. This applies in particular to students who belong to an ethnic or religious minority as they are specifically challenged by long-established power structures and marginalising constructions of normality, such as members of the Pentecostal churches.

The planned study will strive to analyse the ways in which the Pentecostal youth negotiate their religious identity and its variance at state schools in Germany and Ghana, thereby discerning processes of othering, identifying structures of marginalisation and lending visibility to complex processes of identity formation.