Our Team
Team lead
Training design & Partnerships
Marischa enjoys human-centered working where meaningful and trustful relationships build the foundation. She is keen on supporting teams and organizations to build fruitful, healthy and resilient structures and processes, and facilitating participation and collaboration to create collective impact. She is a social entrepreneur, team lead and facilitator with a background in the field of culture and citizenship education. At horizontal school, she is responsible for its strategic development; strives towards building an inclusive, horizontal and appreciative working culture in the team; establishes partnerships with organizations and conceptualizes and facilitates trainings with our trainers who are an essential source for her inspiration and learning.
MAXIm SMEKHOV
Project development & Partnerships
Communication and Event Management
Ela’s interest in non-formal education and cultural exchange brought her to horizontal school as a volunteer in the frame of European Solidarity Corps. After completing her bachelor’s degree in architecture, she was introduced to the NGO world through youth exchanges, training courses and volunteering projects. With her experience of working in different NGOs in Turkey and Italy, she is supporting horizontal school in communication and PR, administration and event management.
MAXIM PIJEVSKII
Training design & quality management
Max is a trainer and facilitator in non-formal education, working with civil society organizations, individuals and groups in the Republic of Moldova and in Eastern Europe for more than 10 years. His passion is visual facilitation as well as contributing to raising sustainable and efficient teams, fruitful coexistence of people and discovering diversity between individuals and inside each of them.
Shaivi naulakha
Social Media Management
Her interest in social media, digital marketing and creative thinking led Shaivi to MitOst as a student- where she loves creating content for social media. She is currently working on strategizing marketing plans to enable growth and build new connections between people and organizations. She is a travel and fitness enthusiast.