Katharina Klappheck has been a spokesperson for feminist internet policy at the Gunda Werner Institute since February 2022. She is concerned with issues of digital violence, automated discrimination, and digitisation in the healthcare sector, with focus area on artificial intelligence in medicine. She is interested in caregiving robot dreams and internet space for feminist utopias.
Katharina has a degree in political science. During her master's studies at the University of Vienna, she focused on "Trans and Non-Binarism within Artificial Intelligence". She completed her bachelor's degree at the Technical University of Dresden with thesis topic on "Design as Feminist Practice".
In activist contexts, she works on queerness, disability, artificial intelligence, digital accessibility, and the design of new inclusive technologies. She used to work in the German Bundestag in the field of gender equality, focusing on political strategies regarding gender equality and digital issues as critical practice.