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Christiana is a social change maker, Trustee of the European Network on Statelessness, and Co-founder of Statefree. Statefree’s mission is to create belonging for stateless people through community, visibility and equal rights. Stateless individuals are those who are not recognized as nationals by any state and therefore have very limited access to fundamental rights. An estimated 15 million stateless people live worldwide, with over 125 thousand in Germany. Through community building, political advocacy, and campaigning, Statefree both brings visibility to stateless individuals and fosters discourse on necessary solutions to the issue of statelessness.
As a stateless person born and raised in Germany, she has had first-hand experience with the lack of transparency and awareness around statelessness. Christiana aims to fill this void by building a space which allows stateless people to actively participate in the conversations that concern them.
Christiana has a background in Media and Communication and a varied pool of experiences ranging from Communication, Change Management, Organizational Design and Culture to Diversity Management. The connective thread across all of Christiana’s work lies in her passion for positive change and the enthusiasm to create innovative and engaging paths towards transformation.
For her work, Christiana was honored by FOCUS Magazine as one of the TOP100 Women of 2022 and was also named by Business Punk Magazine as one of the “Faces of the Future” on the Business Punk Watchlist 2023.
“Being without nationality shouldn’t mean that you don’t belong. Statelessness causes exclusion and is affecting millions of people. With statefree.world I’m inviting stateless people, like me, to speak up and create community despite their circumstances.”
Learn more about Christiana’s Landecker Democracy Fellowship project here.
Updated November 2021
