Sophie AlmanzaOperations Director

Sophie Almanza is Operations Director at Waag Futurelab. She is responsible for the project management and internal processes of the organization. She specializes in process design and guidance for teams with varying backgrounds and specialisations in which a common outcome is achieved. Personal connection is combined with imagination in an interactive process.

Sophie previously worked at Waag as a Project Manager. The projects that Sophie led focused on technology design based on public values, urban and location development and the enrichment of policy and social reflection by involving artists, artistic and creative methodology. Sophie is also one of the founders of Maakschap Amsterdam.

Sophie previously worked at Meurkens & Meurkens, where she developed special, vacant buildings into cultural breeding grounds in the Amsterdam metropolitan area. For the cooperative management, care and maintenance of the spaces, she focused on community building with the aim of ownership, involvement and cross-pollination. Sophie studied organizational sociology at the University of Amsterdam.