The Collective
Aimie Eliot
INDEPENDENT JOURNALIST
A former East Africa correspondent, Aimie now works as an independent journalist for international radio stations (BBC, Deutsche Welle), covers societal topics in Germany for web & print media (Jeune Afrique, Cahiers de Sciences et Vie, Socialter, Usbek & Rica, Sprudge) and is also a TV producer for the environmental program Eco@Afrique broadcasted by DW. She regularly returns to her beloved Africa to collect sounds, pictures, and words for inspiring stories.
Pauline de Langre
GRAPHIC DESIGNER & ILLUSTRATOR
After co-founding a communication & marketing agency in Cambodia, Pauline now creates solutions as a freelancer such as promotional data-visualisation for caresyntax® (hospital technologies), illustrated infographics for GERES (Group for Environment, Renewable Energy and Solidarity) or illustrated educational materials for Ligue de l’enseignement (an organisation promoting access to schooling in France).
Joe Dodgshun
INNOVATION COMMUNICATION
Inspired by social entrepreneurship, science/tech for good, and responsible travel, he works to spread the inspiration through journalism and brand storytelling. After a print journalism debut in Antarctica and New Zealand, he has written solutions-focussed articles for publications ranging from MIT’s Innovation Stories to The Guardian and worked on editorial and communications projects across four continents — recently with Berlin-based NGO Your Public Value, TEDxKreuzberg, and the Impact Hub Global Network.
Michael Berger
GRAPHIC DESIGNER & PHOTOGRAPHER
As well as designing brand identities and visual communication tools, Michael is first and formost a passionate photographer. He shoots portraits, events, products and reportages for European clients such as Nata Y Limon Berlin (Interior Design), Additiv Architektur (architecture), Kleinerdrei Blog (Berlin based blog), Spitäler Schaffhausen Switzerland (hospital), Impact Hub Global, Vorwärts Beratungen (consulting), Gebrüder Käppeli and E. Bieri AG (both gastronomy).