2003 - 2012 Press spokesperson at Naturland – Association for Organic Agriculture, Team Leader in the Press and Public Relations department
1999 - 2003 Press and public relations officer at Naturland
1995 - 1998 Press and public relations officer for the animal protection and conservation organization Deutsches Tierhilfswerk e.V. (DTHW) and Europäisches Tierhilfswerk e.V. (ETHW)
1993 - 1995 Self-employed work (habitat type mapping, forest inventories etc.) in the field of landscape planning
1984 - 1993 Studies in Applied Physical Geography, with focuses on Geobotany and Hydrology