Nataša Markovska (Macedonia)
Project Manager
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Worked for the last decade in the field of minority rights. Before joining the Project Team, she worked in 2003 at the Mental Disability Advocacy Centre in Budapest, where she was engaged in advocating for the rights of the mentally disabled in Central and Southeastern Europe. Prior to that engagement, she worked on various projects for women and Roms. She first joined ECMI in 2004, when she worked as Project Coordinator on ECMI's integrated analysis with Roms in Serbia and Montenegro.
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Slavica "Lola" Vasić (Serbia)
Project Coordinator
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Became involved in the Romani movement in 1996, working first as a journalist with Radio Belgrade’s Romani desk and later in a coordinative role in the NGO Romani Culture Centre and as an organizer of cultural events about Roms. In 2001, she joined the expert team of the Serbian Ministry of Education to work on the strategy for improving the level of education of the Romani population. She served as a coordinator in the Romani NGO Children’s Centre “Little Prince” in Belgrade, also working as a short-term consultant for the Decade of Roma Inclusion in the World Bank’s Belgrade office. She has joined ECMI in 2004, when she worked as a Project Assistant. |
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Igor Kostić (Serbia)
Project Coordinator
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Final-year student at the Philology Faculty of the University of Belgrade, specializing in Serbian literature and language. Mr Kostić has three years working experience in the NGO sector, mainly in promotion and protection of minority rights. He has also served on a team for prevention of and education on trafficking in persons in Southeastern Europe and acted as trainer for theatre workshops with children from the Child and Youth Education Institution “Vasa Stajić” in Belgrade. Additionally, he has worked as an editor for several daily newspapers in Belgrade.
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Implementation of this project is supervised by:
Eben Friedman (USA)
Project Leader
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Regional Representative. After spending two years conducting fieldwork in Macedonia and Slovakia, he completed his PhD in political science at the University of California, San Diego in September of 2002. The title of his dissertation was “Explaining the Political Integration of Minorities: Roms as a Hard Case.” He also holds an MA in political science from the Johns Hopkins University. At ECMI, Friedman is responsible for the development and implementation of project initiatives with Roms.
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