Ukraine Refugee Support Service-Learning Program Advisory Group

  • Rick Lathrop – Founder/Executive Director of Global Service Corps since 1993. Convener of Ukraine Refugee Support Service-Learning Project. Fielding Grad.
  • Iryna Trokhym – Co-founder and Project Manager, Women’s Perspectives (Kyiv) NGO http://www.women.lviv.ua/en/
  • Dmytri (Dima) Shakhov – Native of Kyiv who lived there from 1973 to 1994. Interested in learning helping people because I feel it is always rewarding. However, was exposed to many projects curated by my mother at “Children of Chernobyl” NGO in the 90s. Also, made a documentary about immigration crisis at the US- Mexico border in 2019.
  • Lyubov Maksymovych – Co-founder and Director, Women’s Perspectives (Kyiv) NGO http://www.women.lviv.ua/en/
  • Maxine Lathrop – Global Service Corps Associate Director
  • Bernadine Clark – Returned Peace Corps Volunteer who served in Ukraine and teacher of English to speakers of other languages.
  • Kimberly Chapple – Facilitator of dialogue and meditation groups, which include Dima and Yevgeniy. Project assistant at the Case Western Reserve University Physics Department.
  • Sergiy Sydorenko – Heads the English Philology and Translation Department at the National Aviation University in Kyiv.
  • Ken Clark – Returned Peace Corps Volunteer who served in Ukraine and teacher of English to speakers of other languages.
  • Tom Charlesworth – Has a 160-hour certification in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) For the past three years, has been doing online tutoring of adult learners from Taiwan in conversational English. Fielding Grad.
  • Yevgeniy Ebert – Born in Kiev, been to both school and University in Kiev and has some Ukrainian, spoke Russian predominantly growing up. Works as a data scientist (so have degrees in Statistics), has a bit of experience in prayer-based healing and some body work. Worked in International Development a little bit (also as data scientist – mostly on projects in Africa).
  • Tetyana Azarova – Born and lived in Ivano-Frankivsk, in Western Ukraine. Hopes to assist offering physiological help and healing emotional trauma; can also be helpful as a consultant/connector due to being fluent in English/Ukrainian/Russian. These language skills, and experience living and working in Ukraine and in the US, and now in Montenegro can possibly be helpful in some way. Fielding Grad.
  • Diyana Dobberteen – A second generation American Ukrainian who was raised bilingual and benefited from regular contact with Ukrainian grandparents as well as participation in Plast, (Ukrainian scouts). Raised in San Diego, California, counted on the press and recently the WWW to follow social and political developments in her motherland. Visited Ukraine in 2011, and brings expertise in nonprofit management, fundraising and organization development. Fielding Grad.
  • Sergiy (Valya) Sydorenko – English and Ukrainian teacher, experienced in teaching and training US Peace Corps volunteers, helping them to adjust to a new culture and be effective in intercultural setting.
  • Vladimir Yatsenko (Not pictured) – Director of research at La Grace – Sri Aurobindo Integral Life Center; lecturer and author who also leads a Bhagavad Gita study group