Henriette Schmidt

Henriette Schmidt is a co-leading partner at Ashoka Germany and also serves as the co-leader of Ashoka Europe's Community Program, where she focuses on donor relationships, fundraising strategies, and community building.

She has a background in social sciences, having studied Bachelor of Arts in Sozialwissenschaften at European-University Viadrina and Angewandte Linguistik at the University of Strasbourg.

Prior to her current roles, Henriette co-founded Wefugees.de, a social start-up aimed at connecting newcomers, locals, and experts through an online platform to facilitate knowledge exchange. She continues to lead this initiative as a shareholder.

Henriette's professional journey includes various roles such as partner at Ashoka Deutschland gGmbH, co-founder and partner management at Wefugees, full-time parenting during a career break, scholarship holder at Ashoka, co-founder and volunteer at Young WILPF, and an internship student at RESET.