Management
Lone Sigh Fehrmann (she/her)
CFO
[email protected]
Lone is responsible for the organisation’s entire accounts, including the qualification of budgets and the financial reporting of projects, appropriations for operation and finances. She is also responsible for optimizing financial management processes including balancing sheet accounts and expense control.
Susanne Branner Jespersen (she/her)
Head of secretariat
[email protected] / +45 27452773
Susanne is responsible for the day-to-day operation and development of the organisation. She manages fundraising, the association’s strategy, political interests, external collaborations and press handling.
Department of Politics and Communication
Emilie Annika Sommer (she/her)
Junior Consultant
[email protected]
Emilie works in the department for communication and politics, as well as the knowledge and outreach team. Here she produces content and informational material, facilitates smaller projects and events, and manages social media and mail inquiries. Emilie also runs our webshop, shop.lgbt.dk, and provides support for all of the organisation’s communication channels.
Frix Rode (she/her)
Communications consultant and Art Director
[email protected]
Frix helps managing LGBT+ Denmark’s communication on various channels and works to mobilize the association’s members through campaigns and other initiatives.
Max Maskell (they/them)
Judicial consultant
[email protected] / +45 54300086
Max is LGBT+ Danmark’s jurist and is responsible for qualifying the legal part of our work. Furthermore, Max has a supportive role in LGBT+ Danmark’s legal counseling and advices and represents LGBT+ people when to comes to family planning, parenthood and other legal matters.
Sissel Moos (she/her)
Kommunikations- og kampagnekonsulent
[email protected] / +45 54300081
Sissel handles LGBT+ Denmark’s communication on various channels and works to mobilize the association’s members through campaigns.
Uffe Paulsen (he/him)
Team leader for Politics and Communication
Press- and political consultant
[email protected] / +45 54300005
Uffe is responsible for LGBT+ Denmark’s contact with the press, and the organisation’s media presence. He works to push our political interests to the public debate and within the political system.
International Department
Lea Lybecker (she/her)
Project manager
[email protected] /+45 52106778
Lea works with partner organisations in the South West Asian / North African region (SWANA). Lea supports local partner organisations to gain better rights for LGBTIQ+ people and strengthen queer communities in the SWANA region.
Maria Kusheela Maroni (she/her)
Student Assistant
[email protected]
Maria works as a student assistant for the international department.
Pauline Mignola (she/her)
International Project Manager
[email protected] / +45 54300008
Pauline works to promote representations and knowledge of LGBT+ international perspectives, work and cooperation in Denmark. She supports the Global Queer Volunteers, LGBT+ Denmark’s queer migrant volunteer team, and the projects of the international team.
National Department
Amanda Enggaard Dybdal (she/her)
Project manager
[email protected] / +45 54300007
Amanda manages the youth initiative Queer The Future: Three yearly, shorter seminars that invites young people to workshops, panel debates and presentations on activism, rights and democracry. She also coordinates volunteer groups on Sjælland as well as AURA København and Frederiksberg. Furthermore, she facilitates the network for local pride groups and organisations.
Eva Goldfinger (she/her)
Psychological consultant
[email protected]
Eva works with psychological knowledge internally and externally in the association. She is responsible for external upskilling within the field of psychology with a focus on how, as a professional, you can improve the well-being of mentally vulnerable people who break with norms for gender and sexuality. In addition, Eva is project manager for our LGBT+ counselling services and also supports the association’s other offers with professional psychological skills.
Flor Ma Lysgaard (they/them)
Project manager
[email protected]
Flor is the project manager of the program Transit, which is a ocial conversation service for trans, nonbinary, and gender diverse individuals. In this role, they work to increase well-being and reduce minority stress, as well as support individuals in their explorations and considerations of gender and gender identity. In addition, Flor is also affiliated with the LGBT+ counseling service, with a special focus on the trans community.
Julia Skov (she/her)
Pedagogical consultant
[email protected] / +45 54300006
As our pedagogical consultant, Julia is responsible for the development and facilitation of LGBT+ Denmark’s educational activities for both professionals in the field of children and youth, as well as 7th-9th grade students. Through presentations and workshops, Julia makes professionals more knowledgeable about how they can improve and ensure the well-being of children and young people who break with norms for gender and sexuality.
Julia has an educational background in teaching with additional educational training in neuroaffective developmental psychology.
Kamille Hjuler Kofod (she/her)
Event and volunteer coordinator
[email protected] / +45 60620869
Kamille works to initiate and support events and activities for volunteers in Copenhagen, as well as to collaborate with other local LGBT+ groups on Zealand and Bornholm. In addition, Kamille is responsible for the Visiting Friends, which facilitates contact between volunteer visiting friends and LGBT+ people experiencing loneliness.
Maria Schmidt Myhlendorph (she/her)
Volunteer consultant and project manager
[email protected] / +45 54300082
Maria has the overall responsibility for the association’s work with volunteering and communities in the association and in cooperation with other LGBT+ actors and other civil society.
Max Maskell (they/them)
Judicial consultant
[email protected] / +45 54300086
Max is LGBT+ Danmark’s jurist and is responsible for qualifying the legal part of our work. Furthermore, Max has a supportive role in LGBT+ Danmark’s legal counseling and advices and represents LGBT+ people when to comes to family planning, parenthood and other legal matters.
Silvia Miglioranza (she/her)
Project manager for the counseling intiatives
[email protected] / +45 54300001
Silvia has the overall responsibility for the counseling initiatives and therefore developing the framework, activities and opportunities for LGBT+ rådgivningen, Transit and Besøgsvennerne
Tobias Aske Kristensen (he/him)
Volunteer coordinator – Funen and Jutland
[email protected] / +45 54300088
Tobias is LGBT+ Denmark’s volunteer coordinator west of Storebælt. He works with all the organisation’s volunteers on Funen and in Jutland. On a daily basis, he is resides in the LGBT+ house in Aarhus, but travels around to local LGBT+ organisations and supports the many voluntary initiatives and activities that help support and bring together LGBT+ people every day.
Operations staff
Anne Harrit (any pronoun)
IT manager
[email protected] / +45 54300087
Anne manages the IT systems within the organisation supporting both staff and volunteers.
Kenneth Aarestrup (he/him)
Økonomimedhjælper
[email protected]
Kenneth is our economic helper and assists the head of economics, Lone, in making sure the accounting for association runs smoothly.
Sisse Møller (she/they)
Office administrator
[email protected]
Sisse has a broad overview of our secretariat in Copenhagen, and oversees that the office is well run and presentable. In addition, Sisse helps keep the wheels moving in LGBT+ Denmark’s webshop. Sisse has also volunteered in LGBT+ Counseling for a number of years.
