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NOVEMBER 19, 2015

BITS believes that peer mentorship is an essential education component. Veronika never really thought that she would wind up at an NGO; she had a vision of working in a skyscraper for a Fortune 500 company. She grew up in Kazakhstan and moved to Canada in 2009 to attend George Brown College's advanced management program.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

BITS believes that peer mentorship is an essential education component. Veronika never really thought that she would wind up at an NGO; she had a vision of working in a skyscraper for a Fortune 500 company. She grew up in Kazakhstan and moved to Canada in 2009 to attend George Brown College's advanced management program.

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MAY 3, 2006

she worked on a program called the “African Peace and Development Initiative” at the NGO, World Learning for International Development , doing project backstopping for peacebuilding initiatives in East Africa. She is an alumna of Up With People and traveled as an Applied Education facilitator with Up with People last fall.

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JUNE 2, 2006

After a few years of designing and producing educational radio programs in Africa, I decided to go for a Masters in public health-my favorite content area. We started in our first school in the spring of 2002. How did you get involved in this kind of work? And, if you really want to do this kind of work … call me! women nonprofit leader

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JUNE 14, 2006

But in general, today’s girls have more opportunities than they did 13 years ago in areas like sports and education. If you know a Solutionary Woman who works at a nonprofit or NGO who you think I should profile, please email me at britt at brittbravo dot com with their name, organization and contact info.

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AUGUST 2, 2006

Streetside Stories is a San Francisco based arts education nonprofit that actually just started a blog , so give them a little link love! Britt Bravo: Are there any young people that you've worked with who were super-challenging in the class, either academically or behaviorally, and you saw that arts education made a difference to them?

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MAY 10, 2006

We focus on political education and organizer skills trainings, and we definitely think it is critical to see the fusion of those two things. Our political education starts on a very basic level by identifying the systems of oppression that we live under here in the United States. How did you get involved with this kind of work?

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