American Friends Service Committee, Budapest, 05/ 2001 – 10/2002
· Program Director, Roma School Success Program, http://www.afsc.org
 
 Open Society Institute – Centre for Policy Studies, Budapest, 07/ 2000 – 05/ 2001
· Consultant, EU Accession monitoring project – minority rights in the Czech Republic
 
 Helsinki Citizens Assembly Roma Section, 1997-1998
· Project Co-ordinator September 1997 – December 1998
· Fundraiser, September 1997- April 2000
· Conference organiser, January 1998-July 1998
 

CONSULTANCY
Noden & Company Solicitors, United Kingdom, 12/2001, 08/ 2002
· Expert Reports and Para-legal Research

European Roma Rights Centre, Budapest, 05/ 2001 – 07/ 2001
· Consultant, author of the Report Limits of Solidarity: Roma in Poland since 1989 http://errc.org
 
 Save the Children Fund UK, Budapest, 11/ 2000 – 03/ 2001
· Consultant on Children rights, Author of chapter on Slovakia in Denied a Future? Report
· Consultant on Children rights, Co-Author of chapter on the Czech Republic in Denied a Future? Report
 
 MEDIA ACTIVISM
 Central European Review, http://www.ce-review.org, , 01/ 2001 – 06/ 2001
· Editor of Roma News Weekly
 
 RESEARCH
· Research in the Centre for the Study of Conflict at the University of Ulster aimed at local mediation of the conflict between Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland (July 1998)
· Comparative research of the Peace Processes in Northern Ireland, South Africa and Middle East (August 1998)
· Research on the formation of national minority policy towards Roma in Central and Eastern Europe after 1989. (September 1999 – ongoing)
· Comparative research on the legal framework of national policy towards minorities in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia (January 2000)
· Research on the Housing situation of Roma in Ostrava, the Czech Republic (April 2000)
· Research on Roma children in the field of education, health, housing and racial discrimination for adjusting the UNICEF publication on the ‘Rights of the Child’ for Hungary.(April 2000)
· Research on the situation of Roma minority in the Czech Republic (July 2000 - April 2001)
· Research on the Roma minority access to education in the Republic of Slovakia (November 2000 - March 2001)
· Research on the human rights situation of Roma in Poland (May – 2001 – May 2002)
· Research on the policy formation towards Roma (Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary)
 

 ADVOCACY
· Presented hCa Roma Section concerns at the conference on migration of Roma organised by International Centre for Migration Policy Development (December 2000)
· Presented hCa Roma Section concerns at a OSCE seminar ‘Roma in the OSCE area’ (June 2000)
· Presented hCa Roma Section concerns at a workshop on the Convention on the Rights of the Child held by UNICEF in Florence, Italy (December 1999)
· Presented issues of international concern pertaining to Roma at a meeting of Central and Eastern European foreign ministries convened by the Council of Europe on the subject of minority protection, Bratislava, Slovakia (November 1999)
· Represented the hCa Roma Section at numerous international conferences pertaining to the issue of Roma minority rights in Ploesti, Romania – October 1997, on Romany politics in Vienna, Austria – March 1998, on Roma and education in Peterborough, UK - June 1998 and Civil society in Terezin the Czech Republic – July 1998
· Presented AFSC concerns on the situation of Roma in the educational system in Hungary at the OSCE Human Dimension Meeting, Warsawa, September 2001
· Presented AFSC concerns regarding the situation of Romani children in Hungary and Slovakia at the Save the Children Report entitled Denied a Future?, Budapest, November 2001
· Presented AFSC concerns regarding situation of Romani children in the Hungarian Educational system, OSCE, Stability Pact, Budapest, March 2002
· Advocacy letters to the Minister of Education of Hungary, June 2002
· Advocacy meeting on the segregation of Roma in the Hungarian educational system in Kiskoros, June 2002
· Policy proposal to the Hungarian government to include Roma history and culture teaching at elementary schools, September 2002
 
 MEDIA ADVOCACY
· Worked extensively with members of the mainstream print and electronic media to promote Roma rights and publicise violations of the human rights of Roma; in this capacity:
· Gave interviews and provided documentation in order to assist journalists;
· Arranged interviews for journalists with prominent Romani activists;
· Accompanied journalists on field missions to sites of human rights violations of Roma;
· Undertook field research to put in public attention cases of Roma minority and human rights violation;
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FELLOWSHIPS
International Policy Fellowship, Open Society Institute 03/2002 – 03/2003
· Policy formation and representation of Roma
 
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OTHER QUALIFICATIONS
 
 LANGUAGE SKILLS
 
· Czech (native)
· English (proficient)
· German (proficient)
· French (intermediate)
· Russian (intermediate)
· Hungarian (intermediate)
· Familiarity with other central and southern European Slavic languages: Bulgarian, Polish, Slovak, the ex-Yugoslav languages
 
 COMPUTER SKILLS
· Word processing: Word for Windows, Word Perfect, Excell
· Extensive internet experience
· Web page creation
 

Modified on September 29, 2002