Judy Korn is a graduate educational scientist. Since the age of fourteen, when her friends were beaten up by neo-Nazis, Judy Korn has been taking action against right-wing extremism and thinking about the topic of prejudice-based violence. She manages to curb violence in her neighbourhood in the north of Berlin and to create the conditions for a peaceful coexistence of the various youth groups. These projects involving violence-prone youths show that people have the potential for change. In 2003 Judy Korn left the civil service to found Violence Prevention Network, putting her ideals into practice and playing a significant role in shaping society. In 2007 Judy Korn was named an Ashoka Fellow for her new and thoroughgoing approach to solving a social problem permanently and on a large scale. She is also founder and managing partner of VPN Wissenschaftsgesellschaft mbH and founder, managing director of modus | zad – Zentrum für angewandte Deradikalisierungsforschung gGmbH and board member at Impact Europe. Since 2011, she has been actively involved in the implementation of the Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) and was head of the RAN Working Group EXIT between 2015 and 2019. She is a member of the RAN Steering Committee and Quality Manager of RAN Practitioners since 2020. In 2021 she was appointed as a member of the European Safety Advisory Council of TikTok. In 2022 Judy Korn became a member in the Independent Advisory Committee of the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT).
Portrait Judy Korn
Co-founder and managing director
Judy Korn@Violence Prevention Network/FotoPloetz
Portrait Judy Korn
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