L’équipe d’Ariadne
Julie Broome
Directrice
Debora Guidetti
Responsable Supérieur du programme européen
Basé au Network of European Foundations (NEF) à Bruxelles, Debora identifie les tendances et les opportunités, promeut l’engagement des membres et assure la liaison avec d’autres réseaux de bailleurs de fonds. Debora a 15 ans d’expérience dans les activités professionnelles et bénévoles pour des fondations, des ONG et des organisations internationales. Avant de rejoindre Ariadne, elle a travaillé pendant quelques années en tant que consultante indépendante. Pendant cinq ans, elle a dirigé le travail de lutte contre la discrimination de l’Open Society Initiative for Europe (OSIF) centrée sur l’Europe de l’Ouest. De 2008 à 2011, elle a dirigé le European Programme for Integration and Migration (EPIM), une initiative de NEF visant à octroyer des subventions. Auparavant, elle a travaillé pour l’UNESCO à Cuba et au Mexique et pour Handicap International Belgium. Elle a fait des études de relations internationales, de sciences politiques et de culture et développement en Italie (Padoue), en France (Sciences-Po Paris) et en Belgique (Université de Louvain).
Molly Mathews
Administration and Events Officer
Molly is Ariadne’s Administration and Events Officer. After completing her Bachelors degree in International Relations at Rey Juan Carlos University in Madrid, she joined IFOAM Organics Europe as an Events and Membership Assistant. She has experience organizing physical, virtual and hybrid events, as well as developing membership engagement strategies.
Her main interests lie within the fields of migrant rights, climate justice and youth engagement.
Maya Richman
Responsable du projet (Digital Power)
Maya is Project Manager for Ariadne’s Digital Power initiative. She has been working in the international security and safety field for over 6 years. Previously, she has worked as a web developer, a systems administrator, and a research assistant who studied the politics of hackers and opensource. She has facilitated safety workshops at events all over the world with social justice organisations, foundations, and small nonprofits.
Maya specialises in organisational security, which is different from security for individuals. She loves to nerd out about systems, and how organisational structures feed into digital safety.
Tatevik Sargsyan
Tatevik (she/her) works across design, strategy, philanthropy and publishing. She brings over 10 years of experience developing partnerships across sectors, designing strategic programmes and facilitating workshops – establishing some of the UK’s first of its kind innovation programmes in education, housing and arts for social change. She has worked within and alongside a range of Trusts and Foundations, focusing on racial justice and anti-oppression; co-designed models of grant funding; and embedding learning journeys. She also works with public and private sectors establishing place-based initiatives and place visioning/strategies. Tatevik publishes poetry and essays, and is a Trustee of the Poetry Translation Centre in London.
Comité consultatif d’Ariadne
Sümeyye Ekmekci
Sümeyye is the Programme Manager of Social Initiatives at Adessium Foundation. Adessium Foundation supports initiatives and organizations that target subjects of social importance. Through its Social Initiatives, Adessium strives to create a society where people live together with respect and compassion for one another and in which everyone can participate equally. She holds an MA in Middle Eastern Studies (hons) from Leiden University and a BSc in Anthropology from Utrecht University.
Greg Mayne
Chargé de programme, Programme international des droits humains, fondation Oak
Greg est basé à Londres. De nationalité australienne, il est titulaire de diplômes en commerce et en droit en Australie, et d’un Master en droit international de la School of Oriental and Asian Studies (SOAS) de Londres. Il a travaillé précédemment pour la Commission internationale des juristes et pour le Haut-Commissariat aux droits de l’Homme, où il a assisté le Rapporteur spécial sur l’indépendance des juges et des avocats. Il a également travaillé à l’Institut des droits de l’Homme de l’Association internationale du barreau, où il s’est concentré sur les questions liées à l’Etat de droit, et en particulier sur le renforcement des capacités des associations de barreau en Afrique du sud. Son portefeuille de subventions à la fondation Oak est principalement international, avec un focus thématique sur les questions de procédure équitable, de contentieux, de détention et de torture.
Walter Viers
Directeur régional pour l´Europe Centrale et Orientale de la Fondation Mott
J. Walter Veirs est le directeur régional pour l´Europe Centrale et Orientale de la Fondation Mott. Basé à Londres, Walter Veirs supervise l’ensemble des programmes de financement en Europe Centrale et Orientale et a la charge spécifique du programme dans les Balkans occidentaux. Avant de rejoindre la fondation Mott en 1998, Veirs a exercé sa profession d’avocat, au sein d’un cabinet privé à Washington, D.C. et à Prague, et en tant que procureur des services juridiques à Memphis, Tennessee. Son intérêt pour le développement de la société civile est né de l’observation des changements radicaux qui ont eu lieu dans les PECO dans les années 1990 et du rôle important que le secteur de la société civile a joué dans la transformation de la région. Veirs est né dans le Maryland et a grandi dans le Connecticut. Avant d’entrer à l’université, il a passé un an à l’étranger en tant qu’étudiant américain en service actif en Turquie. Il est diplômé du Hamilton College de Clinton, dans l’état de New York, et de l’école de droit de l’Université de Virginie.
Nienke Venema
Directrice, Fondation Démocratie et Média
Nienke Venema est directrice de Fondation Démocratie et Média (SDM), une fondation basée à Amsterdam et vouée au journalisme indépendant et à une démocratie forte et vigoureuse. Nienke a été la première directrice de la fondation et a été chargée de créer la fondation en tant qu’organisation professionnelle de programme de financement. SDM fournit des subventions pour projets et des subventions à long terme aux acteurs de la société civile et aux organisations qui se concentrent sur les préoccupations relatives aux droits fondamentaux et / ou à l’innovation dans les médias. La fondation agit également en tant qu’actionnaire idéaliste dans des entreprises du secteur des médias, en mettant un accent particulier sur la protection d’un journalisme éditorial indépendant.
En plus des préoccupations relatives aux libertés fondamentales, Nienke se concentre sur le rôle que les fondations et la philanthropie peuvent jouer dans la protection de l’avenir du journalisme indépendant. Auparavant, elle était directrice de Humanity in Action aux Pays-Bas, une organisation éducative internationale qui dirige des programmes sur la justice sociale. Nienke est titulaire d’une Licence en Sciences Sociales et Politiques de l’Université de Cambridge et d’une Maîtrise en Relations Internationales de l’Université d’Amsterdam.
Jon Cracknell
Trustee, The Ecology Trust
Jon oversaw the philanthropic activity of the family of the late Sir James Goldsmith for many years, much of which is directed towards environmental advocacy and campaigning. He was closely involved in the development of the UK Environmental Funders Network and has co-authored multiple reports analysing tens of thousands of philanthropic grants from environmental funders, both in the UK and across Europe. He is a steering group member of the European Environmental Funders Group and served two terms on the management board of the US Environmental Grantmakers Association. He now works with a range of foundations through The Hour Is Late.
Pia Gerber
Managing Director, Freudenberg Stiftung
Dr. Pia Gerber was already addressing the issue of right-wing extremism and democratic culture while studying for her degree in social pedagogics. In her first career, she worked with disadvantaged young people and migrants from Eastern Europe, and was involved in political education on the subjects of National Socialism and feminist theory. After obtaining a second degree in political science and education at Heidelberg University, she worked as a municipal women’s rights officer, as a trainer for social workers, and finally as an academic assistant on the Executive Committee of the Freudenberg Foundation, Weinheim, Germany. She was awarded a doctorate for her dissertation on social innovations in the charitable foundation environment. Since 2008, she has been the Executive Director of the Freudenberg Foundation. She was a Deputy Chairperson of the Amadeu Antonio Foundation and a member of the Council on Integration of the German Government and is still a partner of the German Children and Youth Foundation and the CIVIS media Foundation.
Brandee Butler
Division Director (Civil Liberties), Open Society Initiative for Europe
Brandee M. Butler is a Division Director at the Open Society Initiative for Europe. Based in Barcelona, she leads the Civil Liberties Division, which promotes better policing and more effective security policies, supports efforts to hold governments to account, and combats discrimination against religious and ethnic minorities.
Brandee has over 15 years of experience working with international foundations, civil society organisations, and the private sector to promote human rights. Before joining OSIFE, she was Head of Gender Justice and Human Rights at C&A Foundation in Amsterdam leading programming on modern slavery and gender justice in fashion supply chains. Earlier in her career, Brandee was awarded the Yale Law School Bernstein Fellowship for International Human Rights to combat child trafficking in Gabon. She later practiced law at a children’s rights organization in Los Angeles and specialized in international justice as a program officer at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Brandee currently serves on the boards of women’s rights organisations MADRE and Women Win and is an advisor for ARTWORKS Projects, which uses design and the arts for human rights advocacy.
Brandee received a bachelor’s degree from Harvard University and a juris doctorate from Yale Law School.
We are grateful for the contribution of our late friend and advisory board member, Susan Treadwell
Susan Treadwell
Susan Treadwell, Deputy Director of the Open Society Initiative for Europe, passed away in November 2020 after a long battle with cancer.
Susan was an Ariadne member from the network’s earliest days and served on the Advisory Board from 2017. She was a lively presence at all of our events, both onstage and off, and could usually be found by following the sound of her infectious laugh. Always ready with a question or thoughtful observation, she challenged us to do better and think bigger while helping to create a warm and welcoming community wherever she went.
During her 17 years at OSF, she was a champion of human rights and gender and racial justice movements across Europe and proved herself time and again to be a visionary and strategic thinker.
With Susan’s passing, we have lost a great mind and a bright light in the human rights and philanthropic sector.