My back­ground is in com­mu­ni­ty build­ing and prod­uct man­age­ment. Three major phas­es in my career have brought me to this project: 1. My ori­gins in local jour­nal­ism, hav­ing worked for a hyper­local branch of Rheinis­che Post in Duis­burg Rhein­hausen for sev­er­al years (which has been closed for many years). 2. My years at Deutsche Welle, … Con­tin­ued