Pictured: (Left to right) Viera Zuborova, Robert Benish, and Dechen Khangkyil, ORAM's three new team members!
ORAM’s team has grown a lot in the past two months has nearly doubled in the past two months! We are excited to announce three new new additions to ORAM’s team who are passionate about our mission and will continue building upon ORAM’s work. Our Berlin Ukraine Program Volunteer Viera Zuborova, Development Consultant Robert Benish, and Communications, Development, and Administrative Intern Dechen Khangkyil are ORAM’s most recent additions to the team. Read below to learn more about each of them and what led them to join the ORAM family.
Based in Berlin, Germany, Viera (she/her), is a political scientist. Her work has focused on issues of populism, extremism, social movements, civil society, political communication and marketing, intolerance, and hate speech. For ten years, Viera has spent time working in academia, including as a senior research fellow at the think-tank Center for European and North Atlantic Affairs (CENAA). She is also the co-founder of three non-profit organizations in human rights, education, youth, and social issues. She has also been a regular columnist at the online newspaper Aktuality.SK since 2015. Her last role was at IOTA Foundation which focused on the crypto industry and blockchain and their social impact. Join us in welcoming Viera, as our Berlin Ukraine Program Volunteer! Viera will work alongside Camille Ogoti, ORAM's Ukraine Program Manager, who joined ORAM this past May.
Also recently joining the ORAM team is Robert (he/him), who will work with ORAM as a Development Consultant. Currently, he lives in both Michigan and Washington, DC, with his five rescue pets. He has wide-ranging experience working with local and national non-profit groups designing and implementing multi-channel development and marketing programs for clients like the Whitman-Walker clinic, AIDS Walk Washington, The Victory Fund, National Osteoporosis Foundation (NOF), Planned Parenthood of Greater Ohio, and the Colon Cancer Alliance (CCA). And for the past 20 years, Robert has been an active volunteer and fundraiser for several healthcare, animal rescue, and social services organizations. His volunteer work at an HIV/AIDS clinic in Washington, DC, inspired him to leave the corporate sector and devote much of his work to non-profit organizations.
Non-profit experience is not lacking with any of the new hires including ORAM’s Communications, Development, and Administration Intern, Dechen (she/her)! Dechen joined ORAM in September and is a recent graduate from Grinnell College, where she studied Political Science with a concentration in Global Development Studies. She is passionate about human rights advocacy and has worked for various non-profits that have advocated for underrepresented communities in Nepal, Bhutan, India, Denmark, and the US. She has been helping ORAM to continue to grow in its communications and development strategies and sharing ORAM’s work with our community.
We are excited to work with these three new team members, so please join us in welcoming them to the ORAM family!