Lyuba Shipovich

Lyuba co-founded Razom during the Maidan protests and was the first president of the organization. In a “past life”, Lyuba was a lead software engineer at Callfire, a software company with Headquarters in Santa Monica, CA, and affiliated offices in Hoboken, N.J., and Kyiv, Ukraine. Lyuba managed teams of developers in Hoboken and Kyiv offices. She was responsible for opening the Kyiv office and hiring a large team of developers there. Lyuba was born in Ukraine and speaks English, Ukrainian and Russian. Lyuba has extensive experience with charitable organizations in Ukraine. In her spare time, Lyuba does workshops to teach web development and volunteers for Shorefront YM/YWCA of Brighton-Manhattan Beach. Prior to moving to the USA, Lyuba was a founder and president of the Zaporizhzhya branch of the Ukrainian Youth Organization “Molodyj Rukh”, a founder and a director of the press center of the Model United Nations in Eastern Ukraine, and Zaporizhzhya Model United Nations Deputy Secretary-General. Lyuba has initiated and is in charge of the Bohdan Radchenko Veteran Stipends program and the Razom partnership with the Institute of Gender Studies.