Nadania Idriss is the founder and managing director of Berlin Glas e.V. and Berlin Glassworks GmbH. Born in Berkeley, California, she studied medieval art and architecture of the Middle East. Nadania worked at the British Museum in London, moved to Paris in 1999 to work at UNESCO, and in 2005 she relocated to Berlin. She was always a volunteer in youth clubs and museums, as she enjoys working with communities. Opening Berlin Glas was, therefore, a culmination of everything she considers to be her purpose. Berlin Glas e.V. and Berlin Glassworks provide artist collaborations, classes for the general public, programmes with youth and migrant communities, artist residencies, and bi-lateral exchanges with international universities, as well as teaching sculpture with the art academies in Berlin. Nadania is currently President of the Glass Art Society.