Michael Haupt studied Educational Science and is chief executive of the initiative for minorities in Tyrol. Since 2016, he has intensively explored Yenish history and present. In collaboration with Bernhard Schneider, he established the Yenish Archive; and since June 2024, he has been conducting scientific research as part of the project “‘Ich hab das nicht akzeptiert!‘ Jenische Widerstandspraktiken im Tirol des 20. Jahrhunderts” (I did not Accept this! Yenish Acts of Resistance in 20th-century Tyrol), funded by the Memory Culture Department of the Tyrolean Government.