Sarj is a Berlin-based facilitator, learning designer and community care organizer with a lot of curiosity. They are interested in exploring new realities and possible utopias with people who give a sh*t. Another world is possible! 

They are a white, genderqueer, pansexual, neurodivergent, able-bodied U.S.-passport-and-German-residence holder who grew up below the poverty line in the unceded lands of the Wichita tribes (lands more widely known by their colonial name, Texas). Growing up as the oldest kid of five in a single-parent household, their role as a teacher started from age 3, and their work in community organizing started around age 8. They have a cat named Penny and a penchant for making bad puns.

Growing more capable and more alive in community is their passion. Alongside co-founding aequa Workshops Collective in 2020, Sarj was also the co-founder and managing director of aequa Community Centre from 2020-2023, and is also a founding member of Berlin Collective Action e.V. These days, their weeks are a mix of workshop programme design and facilitation as part of aequa Workshops Collective, running aequa’s E13 social-equity resource center in Berlin Wedding, hosting the monthly aequa Radio show on Refuge Worldwide, and working with comrades on initiatives focused on border abolition, migrant rights and mutual aid.

Their work is informed by and created with deepest gratitude to organizing elders such as the Combahee River Collective, Kes Otter Lieffe, bell hooks, adrienne maree brown, Mariame Kaba, Mia Mingus, Charlene Carruthers, carla bergman and Nick Montgomery, the members/friends/alumni of Women in Exile e.V., as well as everyone they’ve met through aequa and in the gorgeous messiness of communal organizing spaces.