Global Citizen – Sofya Omelchenko ’09
Sofya Omelchenko ‘09
Volgograd, Russia/ Lakeville, MN
Education: BA Global Studies (Honors) from The New School, New York, NY
Employment: Program Manager of University Without Borders
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Bermet Tursunkulova – Vice President at the AUCA
Bermet Tursunkulova ‘94
Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan / Frederick, MD
Education: Bachelor of Arts in International Relations and International Law from International University of Kyrgyzstan (1998), Master of Arts...
Aigul Saparova ’18: From FLEXer to Global Software Program Manager
From her childhood home in the village of Kerben in central Kyrgyzstan, Aigul Saparova '18 (Kerben, Kyrgyzstan/Visalia, CA) helps clients from around the world solve their...
Business Leader Sergey Kulyagin ‘97: ‘International experience got me through the door –...
‘FLEX was the springboard experience of my life. It exposed me to the side of my personality which I wouldn’t have discovered otherwise –...
Nemanja Ostojic ’12 from Montenegro: Combining Business, NGO Work, and University Studies
Nemanja Ostojic '12
Kotor, Montenegro/Urbandale, Iowa
Education: Department of Economics at the University of Montenegro
'The more I do, the better organized I am. When I returned...
Hasmik Tonapetyan ’09 Brings Her Experience Back to Gyumri
‘Each experience in my life somehow leads to the other while my main interests remain the same – it’s youth work, civic activism and...
Branko Backovic ’07 An Initiator of the A-SMYLE Fundraising Campaign
Be practical and while dreaming big make sure that you do small positive things every day. They may be related to your friends and...
Miskola Abdulloeva ’02 Tajikistan
Written by Jacob Smith
Program Officer
American Councils in Dushanbe, Tajikistan
Miskola Abdulloeva, FLEX '02, first learned about the FLEX program when she was a young girl....
Interview with Notable Alumnus Hikmat Aliyev ’94
Hikmat Aliyev ’94 (Baku, Azerbaijan/La Harpe, IL) is an alumnus of the first cohort of the FLEX program. After his exchange year, Hikmat returned...
Luka Bluashvili ’19: Strength is in Unity
In late December 2020, Luka Bluashvili ’19 (Tbilisi, Georgia/ Belleville, IL) traveled to the remote Georgian village of Atotsi. As he surveyed the mountainous...