Tara Ella Grimm has been working in the area of Democracy of the Berlin Governance Platform - initially as project coordinator with responsibility for strategic communication and public relations for the programme area, later as project manager for Municipal Development Councils.
Together with Julia Kaesemann Tara is currently leading a project on the participatory design of municipal heat planning. Tara is working with local authorities on accompanying public participation formats and on communicating complex participation processes in an understandable way for different target groups.
Before joining the Berlin Governance Platform, she worked as a political communications officer focussing on participation in the education sector. As a freelance consultant, she also supported civil society organisations in bringing their concerns to the public through clear communication and targeted advocacy strategies.
Tara studied Development Studies and International Relations at Sussex in England. She later completed an MA in Public Policy as part of an Erasmus Mundus programme in The Hague and Barcelona.