Starting in 2018, Svenja worked for the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) in the Support to Local Governance Programme in Pakistan, providing advisory support to a local government authority on the right to information and gender-sensitive communication campaigns. She also managed an edutainment campaign featuring the comic character Qasim the Khadim.  

Svenja holds a Master’s degree in International Studies/Peace and Conflict Research from Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. As a student assistant at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt, she contributed case descriptions to the Humanitarian Military Interventions 1946–2005 and Post-civil War Power and Compromise datasets. During an internship with the Heinrich Böll Foundation, she planned a residency on Joseph Beuys’ social sculpture with Afghan and Pakistani artists as part of the Regional Green Dialogues project. 

Her work focuses on peacebuilding, local governance, state-citizen dialogue, political participation, gender equality, and innovative communication approaches. Since March 2022, Svenja has been an advisor for international processes and agendas at FriEnt.