Zhenia Viatchaninova

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Zhenia Viatchaninova is Information and Communication Technology Consultant involved in telecom and ICT innovation technical assistance projects of the World Bank in Europe and Africa. Zhenia started her employment shortly after graduating from Syracuse University's signature Public Diplomacy Program where she pursued M.A. in International Relations from Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, M.Sc. in Public Relations from S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, and Certificate of Advanced Security Studies from the Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism. Two generous scholarships from the Fulbright Foreign Graduate Student Program and Syracuse University have enabled her studies in 2011-2013.     Zhenia's professional interests revolve around ICT-enabled governance transformation, public diplomacy, media and strategic communication studies, nation branding, CSR, resource security. A graduate of the Institute of Journalism at National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv, Ukraine, Zhenia Viatchaninova has experience working in radio and online journalism, public affairs / public relations, and not-for-profit project management.   The most recent academic coursework Zhenia has done includes Comparative Foreign Policy (Prof. Peg Hermann); Economic Dimensions of Global Power (Prof. Stuart Brown); Energy, Geopolitics, & Economy (Prof. Len Coburn); International Security (Prof. Isaac Kfir); Geographies of Water (Dr. Farhana Sultana); Microeconomics (Prof. Peter Wilcoxen); Statistics; PR Writing; PR Management; PR Campaigns (Dr. Guy Golan); Introduction to Public Diplomacy; Advanced Public Diplomacy in the Middle East; Graphics & Design; Media Law; and German Literature in post-World War II period.         

Freelance Reporter / Journalist at Deutsche Welle, Ukrainian Bureau

January 2011 - June 2011 | Bonn, Germany / Kyiv, Ukraine

Coordinator at Canada-Ukraine Parliamentary Program

January 2010 - December 2010 | Kyiv, Ukraine / Ottawa, Canada

Intern at House of Commons

September 2010 - November 2010 | Ottawa, Canada

Intern in Political Office of Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Hon. Jason Kenney (09/2009-11/2009 & 09/2010-11/2010)

Freelance Reporter / Journalist at Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty, Inc.

October 2006 - July 2007 | Kyiv, Ukraine

Syracuse University

2011 – 2013

M.A. in International Relations, M.Sc. in Public Relations, Certificate of Advanced Security Studies

Concentration: Public Diplomacy, Security Studies

Activities: Association of Public Diplomacy Scholars, Phi Beta Delta international honor society, Central NY Fulbright Association

National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv

2005 – 2011

B.A. with honors

Concentration: Journalism

Activities: Nonprofit charity project "Audio books for the visually impaired"

Fairfield University

2007 – 2008

non-degree

Concentration: Mass Communications and Journalism

Activities: Russian and East European Student Club

Foreign policy analysis; fine fiction; travels; civic engagement & political participation; documentaries and short movies; East European Studies; yoga.