Nadine Kiala (sie/ihr)

Nadine is a cultural manager and social and cultural educator from Cologne, with a self-imposed mission to embed social justice in pop culture. She researches and works on discrimination-sensitive curation and develops formats that not only reflect diversity but actively shape it. As co-founder and director of Kunsthafen in Cologne, she has been curating a diverse, interdisciplinary program since 2020. She also curates formats for festivals and events such as c/o pop, Future Female Africa, Reeperbahn Festival, and Most Wanted: Music, and as a DE&I manager, she supports events like c/o pop, gamescom, devcom, and the Film Festival Cologne on their journey toward greater awareness and diversity. In addition, she volunteers on the board of Music Women* Germany and Diversity Culture Cologne e.V. And when she's not working on projects, she enjoys all the classic millennial hobbies or immerses herself in the latest German rap beef.