Marika Bernhard serves as a senior project manager in the international relations department of Bosch Foundation. As part of the newly set up team 'inequalities', she is responsible for the strategic development and knowledge creation around the concept of intersectionality. Moreover, as a member of the steering committee for social investments, Marika is in charge of the foundation's related activities. Prior to working on inequalities and intersectionality, Marika has been focusing on social innovation and entrepreneurship, changing civic space and community philanthropy. Before joining the Bosch Foundation in 2016, Marika served as a cultural manager in Germany, Israel, and Spain. Alongside her work at the Foundation, Marika is founder and chairwoman of a Think-and-Do Tank for Social Entrepreneurship. Since 2015 she's been co-initiating and curating the Social Innovation Summit, an annual conference and knowledge platform for academia and practitioners working in the field of social innovation and entrepreneurship in Europe. Marika studied cultural studies at the University of Tubingen and holds a master's degree in non-profit management and communications from Zeppelin University, Friedrichshafen.