After a brief career as a youth politician, Nora Hofstetter studied sustainability and social sciences in Basel, Bremen and Toulouse. As a freelance trainer she works with numerous groups figuring out how we can live together more equitably. She focused on anti-racism, gender and the critique of development cooperation. Her diploma thesis examined power relations in conversations. Since July 2016 Nora works as a scientific assistant to director Patrizia Nanz at the Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (IASS) in Potsdam.