Tessza Udvarhelyi

Tessza Udvarhelyi is a cultural anthropologist and environmental psychologist by training. She attended universities in Budapest and New York. For more than ten years, she has been active in the Hungarian housing movement and she is also the co-founder of the School of Public Life, an activist school in Budapest. Since 2019 she has been the head of a newly created office called the Office of Community Participation in the 8th district of Budapest where she combines her experience and passion for social justice activism and her belief in the public sector as a vehicle for social change.