Our Team

yevheniia@cdnee.org​
Protests

Yevheniia is an activist and volunteer from Ukraine who has been involved in the green movement since 2020. Her activism focuses on feminism, social and climate justice, regional security issues, and anti-imperialism.

She has organized campaigns to raise awareness about women's rights, promote sustainable environmental practices and cover russian war crimes.

Furthermore, after the russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine, she has been part of the organisation providing humanitarian aid and first aid kits to civilians and Ukrainians on the frontline.

anja@cdnee.org
Zelena omladina Srbije

Anja Zlatović was born in 1992. in Belgrade, Serbia, and it is where she lives today. She is an anthropologist, working at the University of Belgrade, and specializes in digital anthropology, pop culture studies, and thanatology. In 2022. she completed her PhD in processes of death on the internet and digital immortality.

She has been an activist for a long time, but she's been involved with Green Circle for a couple of years. At the moment she is part of the Green Youth of Serbia and its mother party, Green-left Front. She was elected as MP of the Belgrade city council in 2023. elections in Serbia. Topics of LGBT+ rights, feminism, and social and economic welfare and what interest her most, so this is something she would focus on the most in the Eastern European context during her CDN work. Anja loves riding a bike, blueberries, and the sea.

katya@cdnee.org
Belarusian Young Greens

Katya's activism journey kicked off during the 2020 elections in Belarus where she served as an independent observer. Following the political fallout, she found herself unable to live in Belarus.

She created a non-profit catalog to connect and support local Belarusian farmers. Katya is a finalist in Belarus's largest social project competition, Social Weekend, which was unfortunately shut down by the state along with thousands of other NGOs. She continued to empower others, offering free lectures on marketing and business strategies to farmers. She’s also been involved with the Research Platform of Belarusian Contemporary Art.

Her passion is driven by a vision for a democratic Belarus where horizontal tie and a peer-to-peer economy thrive, ensuring a safer and more equitable future for all. Currently, enhancing her skills through a Mini MBA program.

cemre@cdnee.org
Genç Yeşiller

Born and raised in Izmir, Cemre has been actively working on humanitarian volunteering as a disaster interpreter since 2015. He participated in several international exercises on search and rescue and medical emergency. He took active role in field coordination in Adiyaman for Disaster Interpreters (ARÇ), working closely with Taiwanese Urban Search & Rescue and EMT teams in Turkey-Syria earthquakes in 2023. Part of the Greens of Turkey since 2022, he has been actively participating in Young Green activities since mid-2023 and have been focusing on activism in climate justice, racial justice, veganism.

He is also part of Racial Justice Task Force of FYEG, manages the social media and statements for Genç Yeşiller, working on digital and IRL organising to reach potential members. As a translator, he translated several articles for Yeşil Gazete (Green Gazette), Yeşil Siyaset Dergisi (Green Politics Journal in TR) and also translated Nuclear Power Brochure for Green Thought Association.

filip@cdnee.org
Zelena omladina Srbije

Filip is 20 years old and currently living in Belgrade, Serbia, where he studies Sociology at the University of Belgrade. He is an active member of CDN's Executive Committee and ZOS (Green Youth of Serbia).

kuba@cdnee.org
Ostra Zieleń

Kuba comes from and lives in Warsaw, Poland.

He graduated environmental protection at the Warsaw University of Technology and is currently writing a PhD on the adaptation of small and medium-sized cities to climate change. He completed postgraduate studies in the functioning of European structures and studied ecology at the Universidade de Coimbra as part of the Erasmus+ program.

Since 2018, he has been a member of the Polish Young Greens and Polish Greens, where since 2020 he has been a member of the National Council.

He is interested in and active in national and European politics, and is also involved in urban activities related to nature protection, especially tree protection.

In his free time he listens to music, mainly rock, metal, dark wave and folk. He is also a movie buff and loves playing strategy computer games. Traveling is also his passion.