The Managing Board handles the operations of the foundation. Members of the Managing Board are Anetta Kahane and Dr. Pia Gerber.


Anetta Kahane grew up in East Berlin and worked as a Latin America researcher in the GDR. In her position as the first and only commissioner for foreigners of the magistrate of East Berlin, she expressly warned of the dangers of right-wing extremism. In 1991, she founded RAA e.V. (Regional Centers for Issues Regarding Foreigners, Youth Work and Schools) for the new German states. As their manager she promoted processes of democratization in schools and intercultural education.
In 1998, Anetta Kahane founded the Amadeu Antonio Foundation. She was chairman of the Board of Trustees until she became chairwoman in 2003. In 1991, Anetta Kahane and other representatives of the civil-rights movements in the GDR were awarded the Theodor Heuss Medal, and in 2002 she received the Moses Mendelssohn Prize of the state of Berlin.

Dr. Pia Gerber has done extensive work on the theme of right-wing extremism, as early in her career as the production of her graduate thesis. In her first job as an educator, she supported disadvantaged youth and immigrants from Eastern Europe. She also provided political education focused on National Socialism and feminist theory. After obtaining her second degree in Politics and Educational Science at the Heidelberg University, she worked as the resident scientific expert for the management of the Freudenberg Weinheim Foundation. She became the managing director of the same foundation in  2008.  Since late 2009, she has been an active board member of one newly established foundation network Ein Quadratkilometer Bildung (“1/4 Kilometer Education”) as well as the spokesperson for another one called Lernen vor Ort (“Learn On-Site”).

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