Evein Obulor
Director Europan Coalition of Cities against Racism and Editor
Evein Obulor was the first anti-racism officer of the city of Heidelberg and is director of ECCAR (European Coalition of Cities against Racism). She supports more than 150 European cities in their anti-racist transformation. The roots of her work lie in community organizing: as founder of Migration Hub Heidelberg she strengthens migrant communities, and with RosaMag she co-edited Schwarz wird großgeschrieben. Evein Obulor works at the intersections of civil society, politics, and administration to shape social change.
During her fellowship, Evein Obulor will focus on the unifying potential of collective mourning and mourning work as a prerequisite for social transformation. She examines how cities, instead of marginalizing mourning, understand it as a social practice – as a basis for the search for new forms of togetherness.
Selected Awards
2025 | Nominated as "Young Woman of Europe 2025" at the Women of Europe Awards 2025
2020 | Citizen Award of the City of Heidelberg
2020 | Alfred Landecker Democracy Fellowship
Selected Publications
2023 | Toolkit for Equality – City Policies against Racism: ECCAR 10 Points Plan of Action, UNESCO ECCAR, Print and Online.
2021 | Editor of Schwarz wird großgeschrieben, Munich: &Töchter Verlag.
2020 | „Darum braucht Heidelberg Veränderung,“ Rhein Neckar Zeitung, June 26, 2020.