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Daniel Kemeny
(Hungary)

Secretary of the Board

Daniel Kemeny is a community radio advocate and media freedom activist from Hungary. He supports the development and operation of multiple community radio stations, launching a program in 2020 to help establish and sustain them. Daniel collaborates with NGOs to enhance their media representation and coordinates EU-funded initiatives in partnership with Civil Radio. As a volunteer with Radio X, he organizes university sessions on media freedom and the role of community radio. He is also a regular speaker and producer for Radio X training courses, fostering community media education and engagement.

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Valentina Rajaković
(Slovenia)

Member

Valentina Rajakovic works for one of the oldest independent non-profit community radios in Europe, Radio Študent. Radio Študent provides a media platform to various social groups, minorities, and marginalized communities. Starting as a journalist, continuing as a project manager and now as a director, she has gained important experience and skills in various fields of the third media sector. She has been gaining experience in project work since she was 15 when she joined a local voluntary cultural association as a board member. There she contributed to the projects as a festival and youth center program manager. Both her work in the local community and her work at Radio Študent has taught her the importance of fighting for the promotion of marginalized content.

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Loujein Haj Youssef
(Syria/France)

Member

Loujein Haj Youssef is an award-winning Syrian investigative journalist, media consultant, and strategist widely known as the editor-in-chief of Rozana Media / Radio Rozana. With over 17 years of experience in the media sector, she specializes in gender-sensitive journalism, investigative reporting, conflict and peace reporting, and media governance across Syria, Yemen, and the WANA region.

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Jovana Tripunović
(Serbia)

Member

Jovana Tripunović is a Belgrade-based professional specializing in project development, fundraising, and media strategy, with a prominent focus on the podcast and civil society sectors in Serbia.

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Nyima Jadama 
(Gambia/Germany)

Member & Communications Officer

Nyima is an award winning feminist, social activist, and journalist from The Gambia, West Africa, now based in Berlin Germany. She is the founder and producer of the Nyima’s Bantaba talk show on Alex Berlin TV channel, a bilingual German-English TV show that aims to connect migrants, refugees, and women from diaspora communities across the globe.
In 2017-2018 she worked in the multilingual radio talk show “Our Voice” for the non-commercial station Radio Dreyeckland in Freiburg where she produced weekly radio reports about the realities of life for refugees in the Freiburg (South Germany) region and its surroundings in Baden-Württemberg. There she also operated as a media trainer for refugees with or without experience in Journalism to produce their own radio content for the Our Voice” project.
Nyima works Part-time at the r0g_agency as a #MMN-Migrant Media Network-community coordinator and an advisor on issues of women & migration. She also co-host the African Women in Trade (AWT) monthly webinar online and is active in public speaking on issues regarding women and migration.

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Fabian Ekstedt 
(Germany)

Member

Fabian Ekstedt is managing director at LORA Munich, a board member of the Federal Association of Free Radios (BFR), and a founding member of the Verband Community Media Bayern (VCMB). As an advocate for community media as well as editor and program coordinator at LORA, he works to ensure that as many different people as possible can participate in the media discourse and enrich society with their perspectives.
In addition to studying political science, Fabian worked for about 5 years as the editor in charge of the LORA magazine on Thursdays. He got involved in the BFR through cooperation with other independent radio stations in the course of jointly organized reporting on the pronouncement of the verdict in the NSU trial in Munich.
Even before he started working for the community radio LORA Munich, Fabian was familiar with the topics of self-management and empowerment. In 2010 he founded the youth association eigeninitiativ e.V. and together with it realized the construction of the “Kulturhaus zur golden Park Bank” in Miesbach, which is still the largest self-administered youth and cultural center in Upper Bavaria.
As a trained carpenter, Fabian still enjoys handiwork, is a self-declared news junky, and has been writing the column "The social thistle thing", which now has over 55 parts, since the beginning of the Corona restrictions.

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Lale Rodrigarkia Dara 
(Austria)

Member

Lale Rodgarkia-Dara, is a writer and sonic artist. Lale develops a new Electroacoustic Literature, that enables writers to read and perform in a collective (with electronic artists and humans) and as individuals with a distance to their texts. Since 2003 she has held Radio-Workshops and is engaged in community work. She produces and
develops art that is somehow always related to spaces and spheres in transition, literature and media-art interplaying with open source technology. Her current interest lies in the conversion and transformation of the digital sphere into the analogue reception of the individual subject to their biological existence or simply curiosity.

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Chiara Muzzi
(Italy/UK)

Member

Chiara Muzzi is an academic researcher, journalist, and radio producer specializing in environmental communication, community media, and intersectional feminism. 

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Gloria Khamkar
(UK)

Member

Dr. Gloria Khamkar is a prominent media academic, researcher, and journalist specializing in community radio, participatory media, and the media consumption habits of migrant communities.

She currently serves as a Principal Academic in Journalism within the Faculty of Media and Communication at Bournemouth University in the United Kingdom.

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