ABOUT US

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Vision

Resilient communities united through art, shaping a future free from genocide and mass atrocities.

Mission

ŠTO TE NEMA is sustained by a global community of survivors, artists, activists, scholars, policymakers, and partners who believe that remembrance must lead to responsibility and justice.

Through participatory art, exhibitions, film, workshops, and public dialogue, we collaborate with cultural and educational institutions, civil society organizations, and diaspora communities to create spaces for critical reflection, intergenerational exchange, and collective healing.

Guided by empathy, solidarity, and artistic practice, we work to reshape public memory — ensuring that remembrance is not passive, but a catalyst for awareness, accountability, and action.

Together, we envision, and work towards a world without genocide.

Our team

  • Aida Šehović

    ARTIST & FOUNDING DIRECTOR

    Aida is a Bosnian-American artist based in Sarajevo. She is the recipient of Culture Push and Socrates Sculpture Park Fellowships, and was an artist in residence at the LMCC, Grand Central Art Center, and Santa Fe Art Institute, among others. Recent exhibitions include Ars Aevi Nucleus Kyiv, Canadian Museum of Human Rights, Kunsthaus Dresden, Historical Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, KRAK Center for Contemporary Culture, Laumeier Sculpture Park, and ARTIVISM Pavilion during the 58th Venice Biennale. She earned her BA from the University of Vermont and her MFA from Hunter College.

  • Envera Moro

    STUDENT PROGRAMS ASSISTANT

    Envera is pursuing an MA in Museum Cultures with Collections Management at Birkbeck, University of London. She holds a double BA in History of Art and English Language and Literature from the University of Sarajevo. Her experience spans museum contexts as well as collaborations with nonprofit organizations and artistic initiatives. Her interests center on the intersections of art, heritage, memory, and collections management, with particular attention to how institutions shape narratives through collecting and display. She has pursued research on contemporary art and is currently researching museum discourse.

  • Faruk Ibišević

    STUDENT STUDIO ASSISTANT

    Faruk is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo, where he focuses on design, research, and material practice. His work moves between digital and physical media, with attention to how form, communication, and context shape how projects are received. He has contributed to collaborative and independent initiatives that require adaptability, precision, and a considered approach to making. At ŠTO TE NEMA, he supports studio and program activities, assisting in the development, production, and presentation of projects. His role helps translate the organization’s narrative into clear visual and material forms across platforms.

Board of Directors

  • Ana Croegaert

    CHAIR, DEVELOPMENT & STRATEGY

    Ana’s approach to research and project development is centered in co-curatorial methodologies. She holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Northwestern University and is a research associate with the Field Museum in Chicago. Ana has been writing and teaching about Bosnian diaspora experiences with forced migration since 2005. This work informs her exploration of subjects such as food cultures, artmaking, racism, public monuments, and solitary confinement. Ana is passionate about creating space for making connections across differences that help to protect vulnerable ecologies.

  • Jasmina Husanović

    CHAIR, RESEARCH & EDUCATION

    Jasmina is a Full Professor of Cultural and Gender Studies at the University of Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina. She earned her Ph.D. at Aberystwyth University, UK. Her research interests address the politics of witnessing and trauma, equality and solidarity, critical pedagogies, and the possibilities of emancipatory politics at the intersection of cultural and knowledge production. Jasmina is widely published internationally on these issues, and she is deeply invested in working towards transformative social change through a number of artistic-academic-activist collaborative platforms she has initiated in the last decades.

  • Dženeta Karabegović

    CHAIR, PARTNERSHIP & PROGRAMMING

    Dženeta, one of the founding board members, is an Associate Professor at the University of Salzburg where she habilitated in sociology and political science.  Her academic work explores migration, diaspora, transnationalism, social movements, foreign policy, transitional justice, and the Balkans.  She is excited about transformation and has quietly accompanied the organization through its iterations over the years, providing steadfast support from the background. She was born in Banja Luka, BiH and grew up in Berlin, Germany and Burlington, VT.

  • Tom Simpson

    CHAIR, COMMUNICATION & OUTREACH

    Tom teaches courses in religion, ethics, philosophy, and human rights at Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, United States. He holds a Ph.D. in religious studies from the University of Virginia. Before teaching at Exeter, he was the director of a travel program at Emory University focusing on the global intersections of religion, violence, and peacebuilding. It was that program that brought him to Bosnia and Herzegovina for the first time in 2004. Tom has been teaching and writing about postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina ever since, with special interest in practices of cultural memory, transitional justice, healing from trauma, and genocide prevention.

OUR WORK