Marie Dietrich is a student in her final year at Hannover Medical School (MHH). Growing up in rural North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, she discovered activism and volunteer work as a way to connect with her community. After moving to Hanover in 2020, she joined the student project Critical Medicine Hanover and has since organized multiple workshops and lectures on LGBTQ+ healthcare and reproductive rights.
Dietrich is a volunteer for the anti-discriminatory project SCHLAU and regularly visits local schools, conducting educational workshops on LGBTQ* topics for students. Dietrich is part of the student union at her university and holds the chair for Political Education and Participation. Her topics include issues related to systematic discrimination in health care, local and global political ongoings, and political conflict resolution. She is currently working on her PhD thesis on LGBTQ* experiences and needs in the context of end-of-life care at the Institute of General Medicine and Palliative Medicine at MHH.
