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Monica Gutierrez
Hi everyone! I’m Monica (they/them), a trainer, cultural researcher and creative writer.
After finishing my master’s degree, I realised I didn’t want to be an academic anymore, and wanted to make the perspectives I learned accessible to everyone. Plus I felt my charisma could be best used elsewhere ;) I focus on intersectionality and identity politics, colonial history and decolonial practice, queer history, sexuality studies and the medical humanities, specifically on the spread of disease.
Monica Gutierrez has 4 references for past work as a trainer.
Contact details
Trainer connections
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Thomas Schallhart -
Sinem Nazlı Demir
Current occupation
Trainer, Researcher, Writer; freelance
Work experience
2025
- Facilitator and Trainer, “Anti-Racism as Practice 2.0” Training Course, Peaceworks Sweden.
2024
- Facilitator and Trainer, “QUTIE: Queer Trainers for Intersectional Education” Seminar, Service Civil International Switzerland.
- Facilitator and Trainer, “Anti-Racism as Practice 2.0” Training Course, Peaceworks Sweden.
- Freelance Intercultural Communication Consultant
- Workshop Presenter, "Writing Responsible Historical Narratives", Wikimedia Foundation Germany.
- Panel Moderator, “Navigating Power in Queer Berlin”, Dyke Festival Berlin 2024
2023-2024
- Project Lead, “Empire of Equality? A Queer Decolonial Walking Tour of Berlin” Critical Queer Solidarity.
2023
- Facilitator, “Walking Against Colonialism” Seminar,
Service Civil International Switzerland.
- Creator, Producer and Host, “Baby, I’m Home!” Podcast
2016-2021
- Academic Assistant, University of Potsdam RTG Minor Cosmopolitanisms
2015
- Collaborator, “Voices from the Water’s Edge: 10 Years After Katrina” Film and Oral History Project Hamilton College Digital Humanities Initiative.
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Educational pathway
I first completed my Bachelor’s degree in history in the United States with a focus on the Soviet Bloc, Black Internationalism and Critical Film Analysis. I then moved to Germany where I completed my master’s degree in Anglophone Modernities in Literature and Culture, an interdisciplinary program which combined Cultural Studies, Literary Studies and Postcolonial Theory. I took a particular interest in Postcolonial Studies and the Medical Humanities which culminated in my thesis, focusing on the disease storytelling tradition which scapegoats discriminated groups within medicine, and thus, in wider culture. Within my work now as a trainer and researcher, intersectionality and critically analyzing identity politics has been my main focus with forays into the other disciplines in order to support that focus. This focus highlights my experiential education as well, which was rooted in a working-class, multicultural environment. My upbringing was nuanced and complex, a feature I always strove to bring into my teaching while also maintaining a popular education stance, which includes critiquing capitalism and other power structures and building solidarity.
Fields of training expertise
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Campaigning & Awareness Raising -
Conflict Management & Mediation -
Creativity & Art
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Diversity & Anti-Racism -
Equal Opportunities
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Evaluation & Assessment
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Event Management
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Financial Management
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Gender Awareness & Mainstreaming
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Global Education
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Group Dynamics & Motivation
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Health & Prevention
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Intercultural Learning
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International Youth Work
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Leadership Development
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Organizational Management
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Outdoor & Experiential Training
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Peace Education
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People Management & Cooperation
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Personal Development & Empowerment
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Project Management
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Public Speaking
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Social Inclusion & Exclusion
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Social Media
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Storytelling & Humour
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Time Management
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Training of Trainers
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Youth Exchanges
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Youth Worker Training
Knowledge about institutions and programmes
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Erasmus+ (KA1) Youth Exchanges
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Erasmus+ (KA1) Training & Networking
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Erasmus+ (KA2) Transnational Youth Initiatives
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Erasmus+ (KA2) Strategic Partnerships
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Erasmus+ (KA2) Capacity Building (other countries in the World)
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Solidarity Fund for Youth Mobility (CoE)
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Private Foundations
Working with specific target groups
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Gay, Lesbian, Bi & Transgender work
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Intercultural Teams
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Minorities
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Women's Issues & Groups
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Young People with a Sensory Disability
Experience with specific geographical regions
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Africa
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Eastern Europe and Caucasus
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Euro-Mediterranean Co-operation
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European Cooperation
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Global Cooperation
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Latin America
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North-North Cooperation
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North-South Co-operation
Language Skills
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English -
German
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Spanish
Trainer references
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Walking Against Colonialism
Validated (2025-07-22)Reference person
Tobias Drilling
(Project Manager)If you want to contact reference persons, you have to be signed in. -
QUTIE: Queer Trainers for Intersectional Education
Validated (2025-07-22)Reference person
Tobias Drilling
(Project Manager/Organiser)If you want to contact reference persons, you have to be signed in. -
Anti-Racism As Practice and In Practice
Validated (2025-08-20)Reference person
Lisa Börjel
(Organiser)If you want to contact reference persons, you have to be signed in. -
Antiracism as Practice and In Practice TC2
Validated (2025-08-22)Reference person
Lisa Börjel
(Project Organiser)If you want to contact reference persons, you have to be signed in.
This profile was last modified on 2025-07-02