Ivana Zajkovska

Ivana is the Director of Program Development based in Akron, Ohio but originally from the Republic of Macedonia. Inspired by her family of educators and driven by her love of learning and for being a catalyst to thriving, Ivana attained a Bachelor of Arts in Education and a Master of Arts in Positive Youth Development. Ivana is a dreamer and an innovator who envisions and works toward building a world where youth are supported and empowered to become caring, responsible, and productive members of society. Her superpower is seeing the potential in people and helping them reach it through coaching. This has been demonstrated in her work choices; over the past 15 years, Ivana worked in various youth empowerment and community-building efforts both locally and nationally including the Muslim Youth of North America, The Madinah Project, and several other communities and youth projects.