Olena Nyzhnykevych

Olena Nyzhnykevych currently serves as a Research Partnerships & Philanthropy Officer at Seattle Children's since February 2019 and holds the position of Vice President of Development for Pediatric Cancer at Razom since June 2023. Previous roles include Senior Director for Philanthropy at UW Medicine Advancement from September 2013 to January 2019, and Director for Philanthropy at UW Medicine from May 2010 to September 2013. Earlier experience includes serving as Country Director and Chairwoman of the Board for the Children of Chornobyl Relief and Development Fund in Kyiv, Ukraine, from 2004 to 2009, and Director of Procurement for the organization in Short Hills, NJ, from 2000 to 2002. Olena's education includes a Bachelor of Arts in English and French from Pennsylvania State University and a stint as a Fulbright Fellow in Ukraine from 2003 to 2004, alongside studies at Université des Sciences Humaines in Strasbourg, France, in 1999.