Marina Weisband (*1987 in Ukraine) is a qualified psychologist and expert in digital participation and education. From 2011 to 2012, she was political director of the Piratenpartei Germany. Today, she continues to be politically active, is involved with the Green Party in the areas of digitalisation and education and fights for children's rights. From 2020-2022, she was co-chair of the digitalisation association D64 e.V.
She is the author of several books, e.g. Wir nennen es Politik - Ideen für eine Zeitgemäße Demokratie (2013, Tropen); Frag uns doch - Ein Jude und eine Jüdin erzählen aus ihrem Leben (2020, Fischer, with Eliyah Havemann), Was uns durch die Krise trägt (2023, wbg, with Frido Mann) and Die neue Schule der Demokratie (2024, Fischer).
Since 2014, she has been working full-time on the project aula - now aula gGmbH - a concept for political education and liquid-democratic participation of young people in the rules and affairs of their schools and extracurricular organisations.
She also has a regular radio column on Deutschlandfunk and advises on various aspects of digital change and democracy. She advises companies and film-makers on issues of diversity and participation.