Alumni Interview: Judge Sanduta's Home Stay
Judge Sanduta tells us about her experiences living with her host family during her time in the US.
This is the second video in our new series that explores the experiences of Open World alumni through their first hand accounts of their time in the program.
Interview with COIL Alumna Judge Sanduta
Enjoy the first of our new series of interviews with Judge Victoria Sanduta. We hope that this series will provide insight into how our esteemed alumni have shaped the future of their home countries after their time with the Congressional Office of International Leadership program.
Judge Sanduta has served as a judge on the Chisinau Court for over four years where she has helped shape the judicial future of Moldova. In this first video, Judge Sanduta tells us how she selected to participate in the program and her thoughts leading up to the trip.
Interview with Ukrainian MP Oleksii Movchan
We talked to Ukrainian MP Oleksii Movchan about how his time in America with Open World shaped perception of politics and gave him a newfound understanding of his counterparts in Washington.
Oleksii Movchan – Non-partisan (Servant of the People), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Regulation of Public Procurement and Effective Management of State and Municipal Property, Committee on Economic Development
Oleksii previously worked as the Deputy Head of the Program Management Department of the State Enterprise ProZorro.Sales. He is a member of the NGO "Club of Young Reformers", a semifinalist of the Open Data Challenge and a participant in the project "New Leaders". Mr. Movchan is a co-founder and vice president of the Jaguar Football Academy. He graduated from the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy with a degree in Finance and the Ukrainian Catholic University with a degree in Public Administration.
One of our delegates, Aibek Baratov, performs a song in Kyrgyz