In Ska's office I am the contact for all general inquiries organizing her appointments and travels.
I studied Politics, Philosophy and Social Anthropology at the Martin - Luther - University Halle - Wittenberg. Before that, I have lived and worked with people with disabilities on a farm with biodynamic agriculture in Estonia.
+32 (0) 228 45379
I first joined Ska's office in Brussels in March 2015 and have started working as her head of office in 2018. Now, I take care of everything that relates to Ska as the Green group's president and I coordinate the work in our office. I studied political science and sociology in Berlin, Prague and New York and I have previously worked for Amnesty International, and as a research assistant at Humboldt University.
Mail: shira.tessmann[at]ep.europa.eu | Tel. +32 228 45379
I am in charge of the work of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs in the European Parliament, in which we are mainly working on EU border and migration policy. I also coordinate the press inquiries to our office.
Before I started working in the Europaparlament in 2010, I worked at the University of Bremen for several years as a political scientist on the governance and the public defamation and legitimacy deficit of the EU. I am also trained as a journalist and worked during my studies in Freiburg and Hamburg for various newspapers.
Tel.: +32 (0) 228 37379
I joined the team in November 2018. Being Ska's Social Media Manager, my main task is to take care of her online presence in the social web. This means, I coordinate online activities with other offices in the parliament, design visuals, answer to questions posted online or moderate discussions.
Throughout my studies (political science and economy) in Potsdam, Paris and Berlin, I worked for the Green Party in Brandenburg and in the office of Annalena Baerbock in the German Bundestag. Parallely, I was active within the party and in the board of a German-French association.
+32(0) 2 284 7379
I run the Ska office in Potsdam. Together with the Green Party in Brandenburg, the office of Annalena Baerbock MdB and the Potsdam Greens, I am working on our all-green floor for green living in Brandenburg. I am responsible for the public relations work of Ska, work with the regional associations of Brandenburg and organize numerous events in our region. I studied Political Science at the Otto-Suhr-Institute of the Freie Universität Berlin. During my studies, I was active in the international green youth policy. Afterwards I was an assistant to the group chair of the Greens in the Brandeburger parliament. After an interim stay at the green NGO CDN in Serbia, I was again involved in Green activities in my home town Potsdam.
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Tel.: +49 (0)331 979 3120
Since May 2010 I am part of the GRÜN.Lokal in Halle, Saxony-Anhalt. From here I support the local public relations work and like to organize actions together with the Green Party, the Green Youth or other NGOs. I also oversee the website, the newsletter and send our publications.
At the Martin - Luther University Halle - Wittenberg, I completed my master 's degree in intercultural knowledge communication, German studies and history in spring 2014. I am the city's chair of Bündnis 90/Die Grünen, as an active member of the party.
Tel: +49 (0) 345 67 84 20 62
