Summary
Joy Ponader is a Berlin-based founder and social entrepreneur with 11 years driving experiments in universal basic income and trust-based community design. She co-founded Mein Grundeinkommen, Sanktionsfrei, Vertrauensgesellschaft and currently leads the Hamburg testet Grundeinkommen initiative, blending grassroots organizing with structured societal pilots. Trained in pedagogy, philosophy and theater studies, she brings a human-centered, narrative-savvy approach to participatory change—online and offline. Joy focuses on bottom-up and top-down interventions that meet people "auf Augenhöhe," turning complex policy debates into lived experiments. Her GitHub tagline "Expedition Grundeinkommen" captures a pragmatic curiosity: she treats social innovation like iterative fieldwork, testing and learning in public.
12 years of coding experience
Pädagogik, Philosophie, Theaterwissenschaften, Pädagogik, Philosophie, Theaterwissenschaften at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München