Ines Garnitschnig

is a psychologist. She also works as  a social scientist with a focus on issues related to the migration society, multilingualism, antiracism and contemporary history.

Since 2002, Ines Garnitschnig has worked together with trafo.K on many different occasions. In 2013 she became part of the core team of trafo.K. She holds a degree in psychology and is currently working on her PhD in sociology.

Her work addresses discrimination and antiracism, asylum and migration, education and education policy, language learning and multilingualism, feminism, intersectionality and contemporary history. In this connection, she is concerned with ways in which appropriations of the world and education (both as a process and a system) are related to social conditions and transformations, societal, social and psychological effects of dominance, discrimination and relations of violence as well as critical methods in the social sciences.

In addition, she has been and currently still is a psychosocial counselor, activist, public relations and communications expert,  and is a member of LeEZA - league for emancipatory development cooperation in Austria. She has a daughter.