Clara Föller has been supporting the Erste Lesung team since spring 2025. For many years, she has been actively engaged in democracy, youth, and Europe, and remains well-connected in international youth work as well as in the European NGO landscape. After studying Political Science and Turkology in Hamburg, Mainz, Frankfurt, and Bologna, she initially focused her professional career on international cooperation. There, she worked on topics such as transparency and economic efficiency and advised ministries on the implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. With her accumulated experience, she is now focusing on exploring how to build resilient and future-oriented alliances that contribute to strengthening democracy and European cooperation – at Erste Lesung and beyond.