Episode 136: The Role of Communities in Times of Crisis
Casey Pick
Trevor Project
Casey Pick (she/her) is the Senior Director of Law and Policy for The Trevor Project, the leading suicide prevention and mental health organization serving LGBTQ young people. She leads The Trevor Project’s work to advance state and federal policies that support LGBTQ young people in crisis, educating policymakers and the public about LGBTQ young people/mental health issues. She also writes and coordinates amicus briefs, collaborates with state and local advocates, and testifies in support of legislation to protect LGBTQ young people. As a skilled legal and legislative analyst, subject-matter expert, communicator, and advocate, Casey’s work has been featured in CNN, Associated Press, The New York Times, NPR, MSNBC, and more. Casey holds a bachelor’s degree in Government from Claremont McKenna College and a juris doctorate from the UCLA School of Law. She currently resides in Alexandria, VA.
Eric Langenbacher
Senior Fellow; Director, Society, Culture & Politics Program
Dr. Eric Langenbacher is a Senior Fellow and Director of the Society, Culture & Politics Program at AICGS.
Dr. Langenbacher studied in Canada before completing his PhD in Georgetown University’s Government Department in 2002. His research interests include collective memory, political culture, and electoral politics in Germany and Europe. Recent publications include the edited volumes Twilight of the Merkel Era: Power and Politics in Germany after the 2017 Bundestag Election (2019), The Merkel Republic: The 2013 Bundestag Election and its Consequences (2015), Dynamics of Memory and Identity in Contemporary Europe (co-edited with Ruth Wittlinger and Bill Niven, 2013), Power and the Past: Collective Memory and International Relations (co-edited with Yossi Shain, 2010), and From the Bonn to the Berlin Republic: Germany at the Twentieth Anniversary of Unification (co-edited with Jeffrey J. Anderson, 2010). With David Conradt, he is also the author of The German Polity, 10th and 11th edition (2013, 2017).
Dr. Langenbacher remains affiliated with Georgetown University as Teaching Professor and Director of the Honors Program in the Department of Government. He has also taught at George Washington University, Washington College, The University of Navarre, and the Universidad Nacional de General San Martin in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and has given talks across the world. He was selected Faculty Member of the Year by the School of Foreign Service in 2009 and was awarded a Fulbright grant in 1999-2000 and the Hopper Memorial Fellowship at Georgetown in 2000-2001. Since 2005, he has also been Managing Editor of German Politics and Society, which is housed in Georgetown’s BMW Center for German and European Studies. Dr. Langenbacher has also planned and run dozens of short programs for groups from abroad, as well as for the U.S. Departments of State and Defense on a variety of topics pertaining to American and comparative politics, business, culture, and public policy.
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Juliane Kronen
Innatura
Dr. Juliane Kronen is a German social entrepreneur, founder and CEO of the innatura charity. Born in 1963, she studied business at the University of Cologne and the University of Missouri as a Fulbright scholar. After earning her PhD, she spent 16 years at Boston Consulting Group, focusing on strategy, IT alignment, social impact initiatives, has been in charge of the CEO´s European Women´s Initiative and a member of the Pride@BCG network. In 2011, Kronen co-founded innatura, Germany’s first platform for redistributing brand-new surplus goods from manufacturers to charities, thereby reducing waste and supporting social causes. The work has been acknowledged e.g. with the BAUM Environmental Award and the German Sustainability Award in 2024. Beyond innatura, Kronen is an active member of the EGLCC, serves on the jury of the Right Livelihood Award Foundation, often referred to as the “Alternative Nobel Prize,” and sits on several boards. Her career reflects a commitment to combining business acumen with societal and environmental responsibility.
In Washington, DC, LGBTQ+ organizations enhance the city’s cultural life, provide services, and represent the community’s political interests. At a time when LGBTQ+ communities are losing protections and facing increased discrimination, AGI’s “Building LGBTQ+ Communities in Germany and the United States” visited these organizations to understand how LGBTQ+ communities in Germany and the United States can remain resilient, connected, and politically engaged when under stress.
Guest Host
Dr. Eric Langenbacher, AGI Senior Fellow; Director, Society, Culture & Politics Program
Guests
Dr. Juliane Kronen, Founder and CEO, Innatura
Casey Pick, Senior Director of Law and Policy, The Trevor Project
This podcast is part of the project “Building LGBTQ+ Communities in Germany and the United States: Past, Present, and Future” and is generously funded by the Transatlantik-Programm der Bundesrepublik Deutschland aus Mitteln des European Recovery Program (ERP) des Bundesministeriums für Wirtschaft und Energie (BMWE) (Transatlantic Program of the Federal Republic of Germany with Funds through the European Recovery Program (ERP) of the Federal Ministry for Economics and Energy (BMWE)).
