Barbara Blaha
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Barbara Blaha (23 September 1983) is an Austrian author and founder of the political congress Momentum and the Denkfabrik Momentum Institute and editor of Moment magazine. Blaha is a former chairwoman of the Austrian Student Union.
Blaha was born into a working-class family, the second of seven children.[1][2] She attended elementary school and high school in Simmering. Blaha studied German at the University of Vienna and graduated in 2009.[1] In 2008, Blaha founded the Momentum Kongress in Hallstatt.[1] After her time with the Austrian Student Union, Blaha became commercial manager at the Vienna-based Czernin Verlag. She managed non-fiction for Brandstätter Verlag from 2014, and became responsible for the digital strategy.[3] In 2018 she also took over the Art & Life Division.
Blaha started the think tank “Project360” in 2019, which became the Momentum Institute and Moment Magazine.[4][5][6] The Momentum Institute is financed by donation and carries out social research.[7][8]
