The political scientist, who holds a PhD in political sociology, has been working since early 2024 as a reproductive justice officer at the Gunda Werner Institute of the Heinrich Böll Foundation. Active in the association Prina – Politics of Reproduction, she researches reproduction and reproductive relations. She also co-founded disruptif e.V., an organization promoting feminist political education. Her focus is on reproductive rights and social justice.

Prof. Dr. Mandy Mangler was born in 1977 in Leipzig. She is the chief physician of gynecology and obstetrics at Vivantes Auguste-Viktoria-Klinikum and Vivantes Klinikum Neukölln in Berlin, where she lives with her partner and five children. She teaches in the midwifery program at the Evangelische Hochschule Berlin and chairs both the Berlin Society for Gynecology and Obstetrics and the Berlin Chief Physicians Association (BLFG e.V.).