Peggy Piesche, born and raised in the GDR, is a Black German literary and cultural scholar. At the Federal Agency for Civic Education, she heads the Political Education and Plural Democracy department at the new Gera location, focusing on intersectional transformation and memory knowledge, diversity, intersectionality and decoloniality (d_id) and racism-critical political education. It focuses on social dimensions and risks of discrimination and works with different communities to develop strategies for breaking down and overcoming barriers to participation. She has been active in the Black (German) movement since 1990 and is a member of ADEFRA e.V. (Black Women in Germany). She is also on numerous advisory boards, including the new Equality Advisory Board on Anti-Black Racism and Equality for People of African Descent as part of the UN Decade of the State of Berlin. She therefore continues to envision a Black feminist education center. Peggy Piesche took part in several talks at Ballhaus Naunynstraße: Audre Lorde and the Black Women’s Movement in Germany Memory Cultures (2013), Memory Politics and Memory Practices (2014), PEPPERPOT (2017), Generation Adefra meets IniRromnja (2020) and The Resilience Knowledge of Berliners of African Descent and its Black Queer Feminist Foundation (2024).