Martyna Bogaczyk is the President of the Board of the Education for Democracy Foundation. She has worked for the Foundation since 2006, first as a project and program coordinator, then as a member of the Board, where she was responsible for the Eastern dimension of the EDF engagements. She has been leading FED since 2016.
Martyna has more than 19 years of experience in cooperating with Ukrainian partners and designing and conducting projects and programs in and for Ukraine on topics such as supporting civil society, decentralization on local level, social cohesion, supporting international school cooperation, multisectoral cooperation. She is also the author of several training programs and educational materials and fluent in Ukrainian.
Since March 2022, she has been leading the “We support Ukraine” program during which more than 120 Polish NGO received grants for activities aimed at supporting Ukrainian refugees in Poland and supporting the civil population in Ukraine. In 2014, Martyna was awarded the Silver Cross of Merit by the President of the Republic of Poland for her merits in promoting the idea of civil society and supporting democratic changes in the former USRR countries.