Janna Heegardt

Janna is a student trainee at Wider Sense Trafo and has been supporting the #VertrauenMachtWirkung initiative since March 2022 with coordination within the initiative, communicating the content to the outside world, and organizing and implementing events.

As part of her work, she prepares the content of the #TrustCreatesImpact initiative to make it accessible to the foundation community and expands the initiative’s reach through LinkedIn, the website, or a newsletter. At events and in discussions, she contributes important perspectives from her studies.

Understanding structures and identifying, analyzing, and dismantling power hierarchies are a central focus of her political science master’s degree at Freie Universität Berlin. Fostering these transformations to enable a more social and egalitarian society is what she finds in her work at #TrustCreatesImpact. She completed her bachelor studies at the University of Münster and the Universiteit Twente, in the Netherlands. The combination of political theory at the University of Münster and a practical focus in the Netherlands, in the transnational study program Public Governance Across Borders, has optimally prepared her for a field of work in which social change is initiated by questioning structures.