Board Vice-Chair
Eston McKeague is a Berlin-based communications and design consultant. Originally from Seattle, he has spent years building the Young World Federalists into a youth-led movement for global democracy. He holds a BA in Global Affairs, with minors in Economics and Religion and Culture, from Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies at Western Washington University, and an MSc in Political Science, Public Policy and Governance from the University of Amsterdam.
Before going independent, Eston worked on the communications team at the Renewables Grid Initiative, producing video and design that turned dense energy and infrastructure topics into work a general audience could actually follow. On his own now, he offers the full range, mostly to nonprofits, helping them with strategy, storytelling, and design across brand identity, web, and video. Outside of work he shoots film photography and lives in Berlin’s Wedding neighborhood with his wife and their young child.
WHY ARE YOU A WORLD FEDERALIST?
I studied international relations and kept feeling like the theories were missing what I had actually seen while traveling and then living abroad: an incredibly diverse humanity with a lot in common. World federalism is what I found when I went looking for ideas that started from that. What keeps me here is the people, volunteers and activists from all over, working together toward goals that are lofty and sometimes pretty abstract.
WHAT IS THE FUTURE YOU ARE WORKING TOWARDS?
A world that funds its shared problems together, where corporations cannot escape taxes by moving profits across borders, and where housing, healthcare, and education are rights rather than markets. I think a world parliament with real authority over how states and corporations behave is the strongest decolonial instrument we have.