Longer Bio
Katrin researches and writes at the
intersection of technology, feminism, and climate. She advises
organisations on data, justice, and emerging technologies. She is senior program manager at the Green Web Foundation. Previously, she was chair of the Austrian digital rights organisation epicenter.works. She co-founded and co-led MOTIF Institute for Digital
Culture, a think tank working towards social justice in the digital age.
Selected projects of MOTIF were: an expertise for the German Federal Ministry for Family Affairs on gender equity and platform work; a forum on just, digital spaces for the German Ministry for Consumer Affairs; a research project and the creation of the platform Digital Vereint for CityLAB Berlin to support non-profits with open source technology.
Katrin is co-initiator of Feminist Futures, a participatory art project that advocates for just futures of the Internet. With the project Feminist Futures, she was finalist for the New European Bauhaus Prize, and the German Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2021. She is also a member of the creative lab studio we&us, and a member of the policy leadership cohort by Aspiration Tech. In 2020, Katrin was awarded the Coaching Fellowship – a program that empowers extraordinary young women leaders of impact.
Katrin holds an MSc in Data and Society from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a BA from the University of the Arts Berlin. Katrin was placed on Forbes magazine’s 30 under 30 list.
︎email: mail at katrinfritsch dot com
︎twitter: @KatrinFritsch
︎linkedin: Katrin Fritsch
︎medium: @katrinfritsch
︎mastodon: @katrin@assemblag.es
Selected projects of MOTIF were: an expertise for the German Federal Ministry for Family Affairs on gender equity and platform work; a forum on just, digital spaces for the German Ministry for Consumer Affairs; a research project and the creation of the platform Digital Vereint for CityLAB Berlin to support non-profits with open source technology.
Katrin is co-initiator of Feminist Futures, a participatory art project that advocates for just futures of the Internet. With the project Feminist Futures, she was finalist for the New European Bauhaus Prize, and the German Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2021. She is also a member of the creative lab studio we&us, and a member of the policy leadership cohort by Aspiration Tech. In 2020, Katrin was awarded the Coaching Fellowship – a program that empowers extraordinary young women leaders of impact.
Katrin holds an MSc in Data and Society from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a BA from the University of the Arts Berlin. Katrin was placed on Forbes magazine’s 30 under 30 list.
︎email: mail at katrinfritsch dot com
︎twitter: @KatrinFritsch
︎linkedin: Katrin Fritsch
︎medium: @katrinfritsch
︎mastodon: @katrin@assemblag.es
