Daan Melis (1969) studied at the Design Academy in Eindhoven. After working in India for Unilever, he founded a consulting company in 1999, named BRAINS FOR CHANGE. In 2001, he started the local magazine SOEPS in Eindhoven, a platform for creative talents. While working for ity marketing organization Eindhoven365, he led the processof building the new Eindhoven brand as a fundament for the new strategy, new events, urban interventions, merchandise and brandstore. In her quest to activate online and app-based initiatives for good, Eve Aronson founded Hollaback! Nederland, part of a worldwide network of sites that use technology to map and fight street harassment. Powered by Hollaback!’s collective storytelling platform, Eve’s work aims to bring an innovative form of community building to the forefront of Dutch urban and gender policy agendas.
