Romina joined Ashoka in September 2005. After contributing to the Ashoka’s Global Recruiting team and the Global Academy for Social Entrepreneurs, Romina’s work took her to Germany where she supported the launch of Ashoka’s youth initiative and its expansion in Europe. Now, back in DC, she is primarily helping the programs expansion globally and is working to create a global movement of young changemakers around the world. She completed her undergraduate work at Macalester College (Minnesota, USA) where she studied Political Science, International Studies, and Spanish, and an MA in International Relations from the University of Chicago. Romina grew up in Germany and Cyprus. Growing up in Cyprus, an ethnically divided country, she was motivated by a strong belief that young people can make a difference. Having recognized the importance of bringing together young Greek-Cypriots and Turkish-Cypriots, she co-founded a youth group, in which participants could express their views and concerns regarding the Cyprus conflict and design strategies for re-unification. On the side, she is also working with an online web-portal, Technology for Peace (www.tech4peace.org) where she primarily focuses on finding innovative approaches for young people’s participation in peace movements and serves as a Board Member to the Cyprus Neuroscience and Technology Institute (CNTI) a non-profit focusing on areas related to human brain-modern technology-social transformation and the repercussions of relevant research to humanity. In the last couple of years she has also focused her time on contributing to the world of academia and raising awareness not only to the Cyprus conflict itself but also to the expertise that exists around it. She is currently at work on an article (co-authoring with Aleco Christakis and Yiannis Laouris) evaluating the state of affairs following the negative outcome of the referendum in Cyprus using a structured dialogic design process.
