Nada Likar

Financial Director

Nada has been employed in Civic Initiatives since January 2006, first in the position of secretary, then head of office and then financial administrator. Since September 2021, she has held the position of financial director. Also, Nada deals with the management of human resources in Civic Initiatives. Completed training in the field of writing projects for the EU, protection of personal data, financial management in non-governmental organizations, human resources management. He is a chemical technology engineer by education. In the period 1996-97. she was an activist of the opposition coalition Zajedno (SPO, DS, GSS), and after the protest ended, she worked as a business secretary in the main office of SPO. After that, she worked in several private companies in administrative positions. For a long time, she was engaged in teaching children mathematics, physics and chemistry. He speaks English. She is the mother of two girls.

Dragoslava Barzut

Manager of the Public Policy Program

Dragoslava Barzut is a writer and activist. She has been with Civic Initiatives since 2021, first as a networking coordinator. Since November 2021, she is the manager of the Public Policy Program. She has been an activist for LGBTIQ human rights for over 10 years and is one of the founders of the association Da se zna! which deals with documenting cases of hate crimes and discrimination. She was the executive director of this association from 2016 to 2021. Dragoslava is an award-winning author who published the collection of stories “The Golden Bullet” and the novel “Paper Disco Balls”. From 2012 to 2015, she was active in Labris – an organization for lesbian human rights, where she worked in the field of communications. In parallel, she was the coordinator of FemSlam, an informal soccer group for the empowerment of LBTQ women through sports. In addition to literary awards, the American Embassy presented her with an award in 2017 for her contribution to the reduction of gender-based violence as well as violence and discrimination against LGBTIQ persons.

Dejana Stevkovski

Coordinator of the project for a stimulating environment for the development of civil society

Dejana Stevkovski has been with Civic Initiatives since 2008. As a newly graduated FPN student, she started her work as the head of the office, and soon after became an assistant in the program for the development of civil society. She was involved in numerous GI projects aimed at strengthening the capacity of CSOs, advocating for greater involvement of citizens and CSOs in decision-making processes, and advocating for the adoption of the legal and institutional framework for CSO activities. She is the co-author of the National report on monitoring the stimulating environment for the development of civil society in Serbia for 2013 and 2014 and the Manual for CSOs to social protection service providers. She is currently the coordinator of the project for the stimulating environment for the development of civil society. Mom of two boys.

Uroš Jovanović

Program Manager for Public Policy

Uroš has been active in civil society for six years and has gained expertise in project management and research in the field of fundamental rights. He cooperated with human rights defenders and reported on human rights violations to domestic and international actors. The motivation to make the world a better place to live for everyone encouraged him to engage in activism since high school, and later in professional civil movements when he started working in the civil society sector in 2018 in Belgrade.

Marko Miladinović

Financial administrator

Marko completed his basic academic studies in international politics – module: European integration at the Faculty of Political Sciences in Belgrade, where he also completed his master’s studies in the United States Studies module. During his studies, he was active in extracurricular activities, seminars and student organizations. He joined Civic Initiatives in November 2018 as an intern, then held the position of office manager and financial assistant. He currently holds the position of financial administrator.

Ema Štefanac

Coordinator of the Capacity Building Program

In 2018, she completed basic studies in Italian language, literature and culture at the Faculty of Philology of the University of Belgrade, and in 2020, she completed her master’s studies in multidisciplinary studies at the University of Belgrade in the Educational Policies program. He has been involved in education for almost 10 years through work with children, young people and teachers, as well as through the development of teaching methodologies, learning tools and informal education tools. Civic Initiatives implements the Civic Education program with the aim of making democratic, participatory and modern education available to everyone and becoming an indispensable part of the curriculum in Serbia.

Tuba Avdiji

Field coordinator

Tuba Avdija joined Civic Initiatives in May 2021, as a field coordinator on a project that deals with youth and issues of social protection and inclusion in the south of Serbia. Tuba graduated in economics and administrative sciences from the Department of Management in Public Administration at the International Balkan University in Skopje, including an exchange semester at Akdeniz University in Antalya. She is very dedicated to working with young people and improving their talents.

Ivana Teofilović

Coordinator at the Public Policy Program

Ivana joined Team GI first as an intern, after which she moved to the position of assistant at the Program for Public Policy, and is currently the coordinator of this Program. She completed international relations at the Faculty of Political Sciences, European Integration module. He is currently attending master’s studies at the Faculty of Organizational Sciences, majoring in Project Management. At GI, she is currently engaged in projects dealing with freedom of expression and media.

Jana Aleksić

Assistant at the Capacity Building Program

Jana joined Civic Initiatives as an assistant at the Capacity Building Program in April 2022. She completed her studies at the Department of Scandinavian Languages ​​and Literature of the Faculty of Philology at the University of Belgrade, and then a master’s degree in Nordic literature at the University of Oslo. She has been active in civil society organizations almost her entire life, and for many years she also taught Swedish language.

Topics that particularly interest her are the fight for human rights, ecology and intercultural exchange. He speaks Swedish, English and a little Norwegian.

Biljana Baraković Radosavljević

Financial administrator

Occupation: Graduated economist

In GI since February 2021 in the position of financial administrator.

Many years of previous experience – finance in the business sector.

Anastasija Petković

Assistant at the Capacity Building Program

Anastasija studies at the Faculty of Political Sciences, and has been involved in activism since elementary school, first through the student parliament, advocating for a better position of students. Then, in high school, he started volunteering in local and international organizations on various projects. She started her internship at Civic Initiatives in October 2021 at the Capacity Building Program, and is also a member of the UNICEF youth committee, as well as the UNICEF volunteer team.

She has always shown an affinity for social sciences. Sociology, history, humanities, international relations – social-cultural differences between countries, mental health. He devotes his free time to informal education – trainings, workshops, exchange programs, books.

Milica Branković

Field coordinator

Milica joined the GI team in February 2021, as a field coordinator on a project dealing with youth and social protection services in the south of Serbia. She completed her basic academic studies at the Faculty of Philosophy in Niš – majoring in Journalism, and her master’s studies at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Niš – majoring in Innovation Engineering. She came to the civil sector after many years of experience in journalism, and she is particularly interested in writing media content and working with people in the field, especially in youth work.

Biljana Radusin

Assistant at the Capacity Building Program

Biljana joined Civic Initiatives in April 2021 as a project assistant. At GI, he edits the Guide to potential funding sources, as well as posting news from the sector.

She graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Novi Sad, majoring in Serbian literature and language, including a master’s degree in gender studies from the ACIMSI University of Novi Sad, with a topic in the field of gender and marginalization in novels.

She is a long-time activist in the movement of persons with disabilities, as well as in the field of women’s human rights. In the “Live Upright” Center, a self-representative association of persons with disabilities, one learns about the phenomenon of disability as a civilizational and political issue. She participated in an international seminar in London, Great Britain, as part of the TEMPUS project “Equal access and expanding participation in higher education” of the University of Novi Sad. She was a mentor on the project “Mentoring work with female students from underrepresented groups at the University and vocational schools”. She is the organizer and co-author of workshops on the topic of inclusion. Organizer of public gatherings, forums; workshop “Easier to Realize Rights” of the Center for Independent Living of PWDs of Serbia.

She was a member of the Council for Persons with Disabilities of the City Assembly of Novi Sad from 2016-2020. Since 2016, she has been an assistant to a child with autism within the project of providing temporary accommodation organized by the Center for Social Work of the City of Novi Sad.

Tijana Ilić

Communications Coordinator

She graduated from the Faculty of Political Sciences, Department of Journalism and Communication.

She learned the journalistic trade through working in daily newspapers, engagement in periodicals, and then in online media. Since 2013, he has been involved in political activism, and actively participates in the creation and implementation of campaigns. She was then professionally engaged in some opposition political parties in the position of public relations manager, taking care of the communication strategy through both digital and traditional media.

She joins the Civic Initiatives team at the beginning of 2022 and is currently engaged in the position of communications coordinator.

Aleksandra Golubović

Office menadžerka

Occupation: Graduated political scientist – international relations/European integration

In GI since March 2021 in the position of office manager.

Many years of previous experience in the business sector.