Germany
Pronouns: she/her
Location: Berlin, Germany
Language: English, Vietnamese, B1 German
Areas of focus: Disability, LGBTQ+, and Mental Illnesses
Skills: Editorial Illustrations (full page, half, spot), Portraits
Formats: Illustration
About: Born and raised in Vietnam, Buffie Nguyen is working as an illustrator, graphic recorder, and art teacher in Berlin, Germany. Buffie is passionate about doing good for her community through her joyful, warm illustrations that highlight real issues in an approachable way. She has worked with The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), author Kit Ong, and Urban Art Kids. She is open to a wide variety of work, but especially editorial illustration for op-eds and portraits for profile stories.
As a disabled queer person, Buffie looks forward to working with clients who are pioneering social change and innovation.
Pronouns: She/her
Location: Cologne, Germany
Language: English, Turkish
Areas of focus: Editorial illustration, graphic medicine, comics
Skills: Drawing
Formats: Illustration
About: Hatiye is a disabled illustrator, comic artist, and designer from Istanbul, based in Cologne. She likes to draw birds, flowers, and ordinary moments. She is interested in accessible illustration, comics, graphic medicine and experiments with onomatopoeia and field recordings. She is also the founder and creative producer of the Accessible Lines project.
Pronouns: She/her
Location: Germany, Global
Language: English, German
Areas of focus: Disability representation, inclusion, accessibility (in media), health, invisible disability
Skills: Filmmaking (including writing, directing and producing), multimedia storytelling, podcasting
Formats: Audio/Podcasting/Radio, TV, Newspapers, Magazines, Online, Multimedia
About: Karina is a multimedia journalist from Germany who used to live in San Francisco. She is a lab technician turned journalist with a focus on chronic illness/disability representation in the media and received her MA with Distinction and the annual Class Medal in international journalism from Edinburgh Napier University in Scotland.