Initiative Co-founders
People who made it happen
![Alexander_Lueders](http://tedxunimannheim.de/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Alexander_Lueders-1.jpg)
Alexander Lüders
Co-founder
"Looks like we're blasting off again."
![Christopher_Stach](http://tedxunimannheim.de/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Christopher_Stach.jpg)
Christopher Stach
Co-founder
"Whenever you disagree with somebody just remember the dress and accept that you guys are SEEING two different things."
![Philipp_von_Weinrich](http://tedxunimannheim.de/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Philipp_von_Weinrich.jpg)
Philipp von Weinrich
Co-founder
"What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly."
![Nicholas_Hofmann](http://tedxunimannheim.de/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Nicholas_Hofmann.jpg)
Nicolas Hofmann
Co-founder
"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself."
![Isabella_Mangei](http://tedxunimannheim.de/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Isabella_Mangei.jpg)
Isabella Mangei
Co-founder
“If not us, who? If not now, when?”
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Former Board Members
Experts in everything
![TEDx_Keffner_Simon_web](http://tedxunimannheim.de/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/TEDx_Keffner_Simon_web.jpg)
Simon Kleffner
Former Chairman
"Always make sure your grass is green but help others sow."
![Lilyana_Fileva](http://tedxunimannheim.de/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Lilyana_Fileva.jpg)
Lilyana Fileva
Former Co-Chairwoman
"Change is the only constant in life."
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Alicia Stenzel
Former Co-chairwoman
"No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow"
![TEDx_Boellert_Henrike_web](http://tedxunimannheim.de/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/TEDx_Boellert_Henrike_web.jpg)
Henrike Böllert
Former Chairwoman
"Let your dreams be bigger than your fears and your actions louder than your words."
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Former Heads
Experts in particular areas
![TEDx_Collet_Maxine_web](http://tedxunimannheim.de/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/TEDx_Collet_Maxine_web.jpg)
Maxine Collet
Head of Finance
"Think and Wonder. Wonder and Think."
![Alicia_Stenzel_web3](http://tedxunimannheim.de/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Alicia_Stenzel_web3.jpg)
Alicia Stenzel
Head of Speaker-Relations
"No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow"
![TEDx_Qian_Minda_web](http://tedxunimannheim.de/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/TEDx_Qian_Minda_web.jpg)
Minda Qian
Head of Marketing
"Alter what is changeable and accept what is mutable."
![TEDx_Franz_Constanze_web](http://tedxunimannheim.de/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/TEDx_Franz_Constanze_web.jpg)
Constanze Franz
Former Co-chairwoman
"A smile is the universal welcome."
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Former Team Members
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Linda Förster
Finance Team
"The best is yet to come!"
![William_Wei](http://tedxunimannheim.de/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/William_Wei.jpg)
William Wei
Speaker-Relations
"We can't be trapped by fear. Lives lived within such walls are just slower deaths."
![Omer_Khan](http://tedxunimannheim.de/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Omer_Khan.jpg)
Omer Khan
Web Team
"Show a monkey how to start a fire and it will burn the whole world."
![TEDx_Kutz_Malte_web](http://tedxunimannheim.de/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/TEDx_Kutz_Malte_web.jpg)
Malte Kutz
General Management
"Think big"
![BernaCROPPED](http://tedxunimannheim.de/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/BernaCROPPED.jpg)
Berna Bostanci
Marketing
"Go find yourself!"
![TEDx_Rey-Sanchez_Parodi_Santiago_web](http://tedxunimannheim.de/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/TEDx_Rey-Sanchez_Parodi_Santiago_web.jpg)
Santiago Rey-Sanchez Parodi
Finance Team
"Our lives beginn to end the day we become silent about the things that matter."
![_MG_6766_web](http://tedxunimannheim.de/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/MG_6766_web.jpg)
Isabella Gourevich
Finance Team
"Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind."
![TEDx_Schepp_Anna-Sophia_web](http://tedxunimannheim.de/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/TEDx_Schepp_Anna-Sophia_web.jpg)
Anna-Sophia Schepp
Finance Team
"Life is 10 % what happens to you and 90 % how you react to it."
![TEDx_Drechsel_Charlotte_web](http://tedxunimannheim.de/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/TEDx_Drechsel_Charlotte_web.jpg)
Charlotte Drechsel
General Management
"Be the change you want to see in the world."
![Coy_Niclas](http://tedxunimannheim.de/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Coy_Niclas.jpg)
Nicolas Coy
General Management
"Wheter you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right."
![YiCROPPED](http://tedxunimannheim.de/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/YiCROPPED.jpg)
Yi Yin
Marketing
"There is always something to change."
![Christina_Neumayer](http://tedxunimannheim.de/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Christina_Neumayer-1.jpg)
Christina Neumayer
Alumni
Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.
![Maria_Padishina](http://tedxunimannheim.de/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Maria_Padishina.jpg)
Maria Padishina
Speaker Team
"If you can dream it, you can do it" - Walt Disney
![TEDx_Metzger_Luise_web](http://tedxunimannheim.de/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/TEDx_Metzger_Luise_web.jpg)
Luise Metzger
General Management
"When people get in your way, they are getting in the way of the good you can do for them."
![Petra_Vo](http://tedxunimannheim.de/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Petra_Vo.jpg)
Petra Vo
Speaker-Relations
"Nothing worth having was ever achieved without effort."
![TEDx_Suneej_Navin_web](http://tedxunimannheim.de/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/TEDx_Suneej_Navin_web.jpg)
Navin Suneej
Marketing Alumni
"Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it."
![Jannis_web](http://tedxunimannheim.de/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Jannis_web.jpg)
Jannis Perzlmeier
Speaker-Relations
"Do you love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of."
![Martyna_Kasmauskaite](http://tedxunimannheim.de/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Martyna_Kasmauskaite-1.jpg)
Martyna Kasmauskaite
Web Team
"Life there is so much more than to find comfortable living, it is about finding comfort in soul" - My best friend Gabriele
![TEDx_Schmidt_Sebastian_web](http://tedxunimannheim.de/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/TEDx_Schmidt_Sebastian_web.jpg)
Sebastian Schmidt
Marketing
"Creativity, precision and accuracy are all it needs to change the world. A lack of knowledge is not an obstacle, but a challenge!"
![Jennifer_Halser](http://tedxunimannheim.de/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Jennifer_Halser.jpg)
Jennifer Halser
Finance Team
"Everyone thinks about changing the world but no one thinks about changing himself." - Leo Tolstoy
![Eva_Xhoxha](http://tedxunimannheim.de/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Eva_Xhoxha.jpg)
Eva Xhoxha
Web Team
"A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results."