OUR TEAM
Current
Talitha Brauer (Berlin, Germany)
Talitha Brauer is the curator and a co-founder of Brother's Keeper International. Brauer is a US-born photographer who grew up in Ireland. She moved to Prague in 2009 and has called Berlin home since 2013. In September 2015, Talitha traveled with a Syrian refugee family from Budapest to Hamburg. She is active in advocating for refugees in her local community and seeks to put human faces and stories to complex social issues.
Talitha's work has been featured by Al Jazeera, Save the Children and Ihned.cz. She’s a Patreon creator, a founding member of the Creative Mapping Circle and a member of Photographers without Borders and Visura.
Suzanna Klaucke (CT, USA)
Suzanna Klaucke consults on strategy and story development for Brother's Keeper International and is a co-founder of BKI. She is an integrated Creative Director and Executive Producer with media and branding expertise. She is currently the Managing Director and Founding Partner of advertising agency FI5TH, after creating global ad campaigns for brands including Nike, LVMH, BMW, Anheuser-Busch and L’Oreal.
A storyteller with a passion for humanitarian work, she has also produced and directed content worldwide (in over 20 countries) for Save the Children. Most recently she executive produced Humanitarian, a documentary that won a number of awards (including Oslo Film Festival 2019 Best Short Documentary winner), which explores the lives of Humanitarian Workers in the middle of the most difficult global crises.
Winnie Schwarz
Winnie Schwarz designs the website layout at Brother's Keeper International. The work of the freelance illustrator and graphic designer with roots in Germany and Ghana has been featured by publications like DIE ZEIT, the Financial Times Germany, and the Goethe-Institut.
Winnie contributed to the graphics and research for the BKI campaign “INSIDE MORIA’S MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS” (2018) and was project manager for the art advocacy campaign
“I Remember Your Welcome” in 2019.
Nathan Loizeaux
Nathan Loizeaux pays attention to conversations and creates pithy & challenging content for Brother's Keeper International on Twitter and Facebook. Nathan's classics degree serves him well as he brings some reason to a heated topic. IRL he works in Texas, where he resides with his beautiful wife and three children.
Nathan’s research and conversation with journalist Sophia Lee contributed to her reporting on A Shifting Border Policy (published October 1, 2019).
Sofia Rukhadze
Sofia Rukhadze from Georgia is a student at LCC International University at Lithuania. Sofia lends her talents to Brother’s Keeper International by transcribing interviews. She loves this work because she likes hearing stories about the people who have challenging and interesting lives.
Christina Hicks
Christina Hicks oversaw graphic design and branding for the Liebe Bewegt running group in 2016, a social project which created space for local Berliners and refugees to get to know one another.
Becca Ashton
Becca Ashton volunteers as an editor with Brother's Keeper International because she believes in the power of stories to inspire empathy and change the world. Becca is a literature and ethics teacher at the Christian International School of Prague in the Czech Republic.
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Danica Simonet
Danica Simonet writes articles and assists with projects seasonally for Brother’s Keeper International. She ran the social media campaign for the Liebe Bewegt running group in 2016. Danica is now Interfaith Leader at Jay Phillips Center for Interfaith Learning in St. Joseph, Minnesota.
Blake Smith
Blake Smith co-founded Brother’s Keeper Int’l and developed the strategy and vision at BKI. You can reach out to him allsmith.org where he coaches startups to fundraise, operate, and grow. He (and Chandler!) have 5 kids, 2 cats, 2 chickens, and one big life on the banks of the Ohio River.
Chandler Smith
Chandler Smith co-founded Brother’s Keeper Int’l. Her passion for advocacy for unaccompanied is contagious and her Instagram Stories were what connected BKI to support the Krafts in San Antonio. Chandler is a wife to one, mother to five, and has a background in education and marketing.
Caroline Kimbro
Caroline Kimbro volunteered in 2017 with BKI in the areas of research, brand and storytelling. Caroline did the layout of Refugee Children of Elliniko. Since her time at BKI, Caroline spent a year working abroad in Morocco and is now studying at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public and International Affairs