Our Team

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MARISCHA WEISER

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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

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Project development & Partnerships

Maxim is passionate about building relationships and believes that everything we do revolves around them. Maxim’s likes playing a range of roles, including facilitation, storytelling, management, and writing. As our program manager, Maxim will be bringing his experience in capacity development process, learning design and entrepreneurial thinking to support us making next strategic moves and to co-create educational projects and products such as Erasmus Projects, Civil Society Toolbox and others.

ELA TEKGÜL

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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.

Malwina Fendrych

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Sparring Partner

Known for conceptual and creative thinking, Malwina has five years’ experience in developing and implementing long-term PR and communication strategies. She also coordinates educational programs in Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus and Poland. At the age of 18, she discovered the work of Hermann Hesse, which led her to a Master’s degree in German linguistics. Since 2017, she has been working as an educator and international facilitator in citizenship education, project management, creative, critical and media literacy.

Shaivi naulakha

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Social Media Management