Going Digital: Alumni in Ukraine Find New Ways to Promote FLEX
In a year bustling with virtual events, alumni in Ukraine have learned to get creative with their methods of FLEX program promotion. Alumni have...
FLEX Alumni and GYSD 2017: Education and Career Advice Projects
Global Youth Service Day (GYSD) is the largest service event in the world and the only one that celebrates the contributions that children and...
Happy Halloween from Kherson!
FLEX Alumni City Representatives in Kherson, Ukraine Borys Lesyk ’16 together with active alumni Yana Ustymenko ’16 and Myroslava Yarkova ’16 organized Halloween party...
FLEX Alumni Meet and Reminisce in Kyiv
On February 1, FLEX Alumni Coordinator in Central Ukraine Yevheniya Vodopyanova '12 organized an alumni get together at the Golden Gate Pub in Kyiv....
Halyna Yanchenko ’04 Anticorruption Deputy at Kyiv City Council
‘After the return to your country it takes a lot of mental strength to start contributing to change in your community instead of wanting...
An Interview with Poet, Scholar and Translator Iryna Shuvalova ’02 from Ukraine
Can folk and modern poetry help to overcome post-conflict trauma?
Iryna Shuvalova '02
Kyiv, Ukraine / Athens, TN
Education (university, degrees, major, area of specialization):
Cambridge University,...
Making My Life Memorable
Maryna Mykhalyenko
Tulalip, WA/Zhytomyr, Ukraine
Zhytomyr Ecological Lyceum #24
"I understand now that there is nothing more important than working towards my dream and being responsible for...
Alumnus Oleksandr Kushch ’13 and his Academy of Future Elected Officials
After successfully completing the FLEX program, Ukrainian FLEX alumnus Oleksandr Kushch’13 (Kharkiv, Ukraine/ Austin, TX) has chosen not to remain idle. Though busy studying...
Say “No” to Corruption
Sergiy Stupak ’15
Project Location: Zaporizhzhya, Mykolayiv, Kyiv, Vinnytsia, Cherkasy, Ivano-Frankivsk, Kharkiv, Odesa, Chernivtsi, Dnipropetrovsk, Kherson, Poltava, Chernihiv, Rivne, Zhytomyr, and Khmelnytsky, Ukraine
$420 in Eastern...
Lisa Glybchenko ’13 Promotes Peace Through Art and Technology
Lisa Glybchenko ’13 has made a lasting impact through her innovative peacebuilding project, Color Up Peace. Combining her passion for visual arts with a...