Sedra
Arab
Social worker, anti-racism facilitator, researcher and activist. Bridging knowledge and collective action for racial justice, safer spaces and community healing.
Care and politics
are inseparable.
Sedra Arab is a Vienna-based social worker, anti-racism facilitator, translator and researcher. Her work, grounded in decolonial and intersectional frameworks, explores how communities build safer spaces as active practices of collective care, resistance and healing.
She holds a Master of Arts in Clinical and Spatial Social Work from FH Campus Wien and a Bachelor of Arts in Transcultural Communication from the University of Graz. Her practice resists the separation of care and politics, centering racial justice, migration and collective healing as sites of resistance rather than individual resilience.
She speaks Arabic and Kurdish as native languages, English and German at academic level and Turkish at a basic level.
Where knowledge meets practice.
Anti-Racism Training & Facilitation
Designing and delivering intersectional anti-racism workshops for adults, children and youth
— trauma-informed, community-centred methodologies rooted in lived experience.
Migration & Advocacy
Documentation and advisory work on anti-Muslim racism, migration, policing and structural discrimination
— paired with policy advocacy and consultancy for stakeholders and civil society at EU level.
Cultural Mediation & Art
Collaborative projects bringing critical theory into creative and educational spaces.
Work that matters.
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2026Workshop & ExhibitionPublic IntimacyVienna — with Engy Mohsen & Amal Al-Nakhala. Solidarty is never spoken, it is translated, risked and fought for.
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02
2026Community ProgrammeMeshwar MixtapesIntercultural encounter through music, storytelling and community gathering.
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2024Podcast / MediaSozialtherapie, Prävention & SelbstfürsorgeReflecting on clinical social work, self-care for BIPoC practitioners and the political dimensions of psychosocial support.
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2021–2022Feminist ProjectMALALATraining and facilitating youth and adults on gender based violence prevention and intervention. Gender-specific mentorship for young women with migration backgrounds.
A practice built
over years.
Liberation and healing are inseparable. BIPoC-led safer spaces embody survival and transformation within oppressive contexts.
— Sedra Arab
Thoughts in print.
Hoffnung scrollt nicht – wir schon
How algorithms and digital infrastructure reproduce silence — and how community resists. On anti-Muslim racism, shadow-banning and the politics of digital visibility.
Safe(r) Collective BIPoC Spaces: Practices to minimize harm and dismantle oppression
Qualitative, community-based research with BIPoC mental health practitioners in Vienna. Anchored in intersectional, queer and decolonial frameworks.
Die Dokustelle wächst: Projekte und Outreach
Her chapter on the outreach strategy and project growth behind Dokustelle Österreich's antimuslim-racism documentation work.
Psychosoziale Gesundheit ist politischer Widerstand
Her chapter on psychosocial health as a survival strategy and form of political resistance in anti-racist organizing.
Let's work
together.
Available for workshops, training, keynotes, facilitation, research collaboration and advocacy consultancy. Based in Vienna, active across Europe.
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