Welcome our new interns
Lorenzo Capomaggi is part of our team as the Anti-Racism Intern, a role that seeks to strengthen our engagement against racist discrimination and afrophobia. He’s half Italian and half Eritrean but born and raised in Italy, where he recently graduated with his bachelor’s at Sapienza University in Political Science and International Relations. Throughout his academic career he had the opportunity to spend one year at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques d’Aix-en-Provence, where he deepened his knowledge of macroeconomy, international relations and development economics. He also reached a professional level in French, the third language he speaks alongside with Italian and English. His bachelor’s thesis received a mention of honour, and it reflects his main fields of interest since it deals with the relations between Ethiopia and Eritrea. In fact, Lorenzo is passionate about African affairs, racism-related issues, conflict resolution, international affairs, human rights, equality and development.
Before joining ENORB, Lorenzo has been interning for Roma Tre University as a research assistant, seeking the detection of historical fake-news. He also interned for Inpress Magazine, a Rome-based journal, as the abroad editor. In his early career he also had the opportunity to be part of an editorial simulation run by La Repubblica, where he formed his editorial skills.
Özge Atmis is the part-time Tackling Religious Hatreds & Intolerance Intern at ENORB. She finished her bachelor’s degree in Sociology from Tilburg University and obtained her master’s degree in Conflict and Development Studies from Ghent University. Throughout her undergraduate and master’s degree, she specialized in migration, human rights, and gender studies.
Next to her academic career, she volunteered with various organizations that worked with migrant and refugee communities in different parts of the world. During her bachelor’s degree, she volunteered with an organization aiming to provide free quality education for children refugees facing discriminatory situations when enrolling in schools in Beirut, Lebanon. She also volunteered with a Ghent-based organization focusing on providing humanitarian aid to refugees in Dunkirk and Calais in France. Last summer, she worked with a civil society organization called Kırkayak Kültür in Gaziantep, Turkey. She helped the organization in its projects aiming to create a dialogue between the migrant and the local community in the region. Lastly, during her master’s degree, she got deeply involved in the human rights of migrant and refugee communities and became engaged in solidarity actions and movements for undocumented migrants in Belgium.
Mireia Rimbau is part of our team as the Migration & Religious Diversity Intern. She is a former student at the University of Barcelona, where she completed her Bachelor in Social and Cultural Anthropology. During her time in university, she interned with an organization that promotes Indigenous people rights and self-determination in Barcelona and works with indigenous associations in Latin America called Alternativa Intercanvi amb Pobles Indígenes, and she also got to know the situation of Indigenous people in the north of Brazil on a personal level.
She has been deeply involved in the defense of movement and human rights of migrants and asylum seekers. In Barcelona, she volunteered with Barcelonactua and she was part of a team that conducted research on Senegalese men and their life stories of migration, as well as their self-made brand, TopManta. In Lesbos and Patras, Greece, she volunteered with ShowerPower and No Name Kitchen, her responsibilities included supporting refugees and people on the move with showers and food distribution, creating content for social media and reporting pushbacks and violence at European borders. She will soon start a master’s degree in International Affairs.