Astra Taylor

anthropologist, social scientist, organizer of the festival

Yana Smetanina was born in Belebey. She has lived in Siberia, spent a long time in Moscow. and is now a Berlin-based artist.

Curator, activist, organizer of Femfest and Media Impact

Henry Readhead is a grandchild of A. S. Neill, the founder of Summerhill School.

Yacov Lurie is a student of anthropology and a film maker. He lives in Helsinki, Finland

Anastasia Khoroshilova is a Russian artist, living and working in between Germany and Russia.

William Kentridge is a South African artist best known for his prints, drawings, and animated films.

Frank is Ph.D in philosophy and involved in activism and wide educational initiatives for many years.

Artem Slota - project coordinator at "Children of St. Petersburg".

Kolbeinn Hugi is an artist, musician and storyteller. He was a part of the Iceland a4kids Nation book project, as well as the Project What is Privacy with the migrant kids in Berlin in 2019.

Ingolf Hoppmann and Olga Kouvchinnikova are well known translators from Russian to German.

Nataša Ilić (born in Zagreb) is a freelance curator and a member of the curators collective What, How & for Whom / WHW

Polina Yermakova - director of publishing books for the State Hermitage in St. Petersburg, publishing house "Arka".

Artist, researcher, activist

Ilona M. Otto is a senior researcher at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK).

educator, author of the books and an activist of children rights

David Graeber is professor of Anthropology at the London School of Economics and
author of Debt: The First 5000 years; he was involved in the Global Justice Movement
and Occupy Wall Street.

Elfa Lilja Gisladottir is a music teacher from Reykjavik, Iceland. She is a project manager for List fyrir alla (Art for all) a cultural project for children and youth under the auspices and funded by the Icelandic Ministry of Education and Culture.

David Gribble is an educator and an author of many books

Ingolf Hoppmann and Olga Kouvchinnikova are well known translators from Russian to German.

Sam Chermayeff is an architect, designer and teacher undertaking projects worldwide.

Activist. artist, one of the founders of Utopian Union

Anna Leonenko is a producer at Mediaost (Cultural and Educational agency, Berlin, D).

Jerome Gold is an american book author

social worker at KARUNA Drugstop

Keith Hart, most known as an economic anthropologist and the inventor of the term
“informal economy”, he is looking at the definition of what does it mean to be a citizen
from the economic point of view and how it affect the rights and define the role in a
society for a different

Adam is an artist, who is interested in experimental projects about privacy, security, and biometric technologies. He lives in Berlin.

Vera is a social pedagogue and educator, who is working with homeless kids in St Petersburg, Russia and immigrants in Berlin, Germany.

Nika is an author who is working on several publishing and art projects, including A4kids.org, an open-source platform experimenting with new educational formats, co-created with her late husband David Graeber, an anthropologist and activist.

Mehdi Belhaj Kacem - French philosopher, activist and friend of David Graeber - Mehdi Belhaj Kacem, initiator and co-author
Anarchy-In a Manner of Speaking Conversations With Mehdi Belhaj Kacem, Nika Dubrovsky, and Assia Turquier-Zauberman - Anarchies.

Olof Sverrisdottir - storyteller and writer of childrenbooks.

Nica Davidoff is an anthropologist

Hanna Niittymäki is a teacher and a peace educator. She is training teacher around Finland about equality and peace education issues. H. N. also produces teaching materials in cooperation with several NGOs especially the Finnish Peace Committee.

Alexander Koch is a curator, galleries, writer, and cultural mediator.

Zandile Ngubeni

Alexandra is working for the progressive children publishing house Samokat. She is a founder of No Kidding website and reading group.

Ksenia has been a volunteer in St. Petersburg's Children since 2015 (with short breaks to live and work in Poland and Sweden), and conducts Russian language classes in groups for teenagers.

Graduated from the European University in St. Petersburg, was engaged in children's projects in the Kunstkammer, now works in the department of development of libraries of Frunzensky district of St. Petersburg.

Nikolay OLEYNIKOV is a St. Petersburg based artist, member of CHTO DELAT

Activist, artist and member of Rose's school in Saint-Petersburg

Olumide Abimbola political economist and economic anthropologist with research and analysis experience in trade, regional integration, political risk, extractive industry.

Vadim Maximov is a specialist of Russian avant-garde theater and professor of Theater Academy in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Lea Irmish - project Curator of What is Wealth book.