1st Generation Summit
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First Gen is a dialogue series for people who are the first in their families to build a life in Germany.
The format combines conversation, listening, reflection and shared resources. People speak from lived experience and professional practice, without turning complex lives into simple answers. Access to support is shaped by stigma, structural gaps and expectations of resilience; these are the conditions the series is held under, and about.
Three editions have taken place since 2023, in Berlin and Hamburg, with the third in Hamburg in April 2026. Recordings and materials from each edition are kept and shared here.
Dr Akeem Sule is the Co-founder of HIP HOP PSYCH and a Consultant Psychiatrist in General Adult Psychiatry at Essex Partnership University NHS Trust, and an...
Dr Christian Kodzo Ayivi is the founder and CEO of Afrotopia “culture + innovation”, a think tank and cultural centre for Black, African and Afrodiasporic...
Dr Stephanie Nsiah-Dosu is a Doctor of Human Biology and a community health educator. Her work centres on health literacy, culturally responsive health...
Elorm Nick Ahialey-Mawusi is the Pastor of Living Generation Church LGC, a post-migration church in Hamburg with a transcultural ecclesiological orientation....
Irene Appiah is a Member of the Hamburg Parliament Mitglied der Hamburgischen Bürgerschaft for the Social Democratic Party SPD, where she took her seat on 26...
Karen Taylor is a political strategist, activist, and moderator working at the intersection of community empowerment, political participation, and...
Muna AnNisa Aikins Dr. phil. is a developmental psychologist and social scientist. She earned her doctorate at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development,...
Prof. Dr. Maisha M. Auma previously published as Maisha M. Eggers is a Black German scholar of education, gender studies, and Black feminist theory. Born in...
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