Young Council 2020

Nastya Bezpalova
Nastya Bezpalova video coordinator
grant application specialist, video blogging project manager, copywriter.
Serhiy Khlivniuk
Serhiy Khlivniuk cultural events and leisure coordinator
Project manager of movie screening and music events, smm strategist.
Lesia Gutsuk
Lesia Gutsuk political science projects coordinator
She is the author of an educational project of political science comics, member of the project of teaching English for children of ATO veterans.
 Zirka Savka
Zirka Savka art coordinator
She is the curator of the art project “Continuation. Cultural events, art, manager, organization events designer.
Hera Solomia
Hera Solomia external communications coordinator
Communicate with external partners and establish relationships with other organizations.
Marta Nyzhniak
Marta Nyzhniak YMCA's English Club
Fundraiser, the leader of the English board game club, member of the project English for Military.

Steering Committee

Sofiya Burtak
Sofiya BurtakChairlady
PhD in Political Science
Manager of education and gender programs, Cooperation Academy
(Dnipro-Lviv)
Filip Hove Kristensen
Filip Hove Kristensen
Chairman International Committee of YMCA Denmark (Copenhagen)
Morten Sorensen
Morten Sorensen
Chairman Local to Local Committee of YMCA-Aarhus
Lutheran pastor in YMCA (Aarhus)

Andriy Bandrovskyi
Andriy Bandrovskyi
Quality Control Lead at SoftServe company (Lviv) (from December 2016)
Roman Ostrovskyy
Roman Ostrovskyy
Vice Rector on education and training at Kyiv Three Saints Spiritual Academy, Bible Theology licensee (Kyiv-Lviv)

Staff

Dr Oleksandra Sorokopud
Dr Oleksandra SorokopudCEO
Started organization in 2004.

Qualifications:

  • PhD in Political Science, Lviv National University.

Employment:

  • UNHCR Senior protection assistant (2013 – 2014)
  • Deputy Director at Western region Crimea-SOS network (2014 – 2015).
Iryna Vuytsyk
Iryna VuytsykInternational Coordination and Communications
Qualifications:

  • MA in International Relations (Lviv National University)
  • MSc in Political Lobbying and Public Affairs (Ulster University, Northern Ireland, UK).

Employment:

  • Media education manager (Independent Association of Broadcasters, Kyiv, 2011-2013),
  • Press and political officer (Embassy of Japan in Kyiv, 2006-2008)
Natalia Zakharkiv
Natalia Zakharkiv Finance and Grant Program Manager
Qualifications:

  • Master degree of Tourism Management (Lviv Ivan Franko National University)
  • Master degree of Organization Management (Lviv National University “Lviv Polytechnic”)

Employment:

  • Collaboration with leading international technical aid organizations: USAID, SCOCODEVI, Heifer International, ICF Renaissance, UNHCR, Democracy Development Fund (USA), KFUK-KFUM Aarhus.
Yurko Vovkohon
Yurko VovkohonProjects and PR manager
Qualifications:

  • MA in Political Science (Lviv National University).

Employment:

  • Press secretary and project manager of the Art Association “Dzyga” since 2007
  • coordinator of the international festival “Flugery of Lviv”, jazz festival “Jazz Bez”, biennial “The Week of Contemporary Art”

Program Leaders

  • Yaroslav Fedochuk

  • Roman Dzvonkovskyi

  • Mykhailo Balog

  • Oxana Nakonechna

  • Viacheslav Lombrozo

  • Natalka Rybka-Parkhomenko

  • Andriy Vodychev

  • Oleg Stepan

  • Oleg Oneschak

  • Alim Aliev

  • Khalil Khalilov

  • Mykola Pliaskin

  • Taras Beniakh

  • Olexandr Mishchuk

  • Vasyl Kolisnyk

  • Nazar Vytrykush

  • Ulyana Horbachevska

  • Mykola Bereza