Rare Girls

Emilia Colti is a National swimming Champion of Romania, a Balkan Medalist and an All-American Student Athlete in the United States.

Emilia is from Ploiesti, Romania and currently studying criminal justice at University of Indianapolis in USA

In the future, Emilia is interested in working in the fields of crime scene investigation or criminalistics.

Instagram: @emypss

Emiliana Sirenko is originally from Kyiv, Ukraine, and now lives in Brussels, Belgium.

She studies in parallel in 2 schools: Final Grade of Ukrainian school (where she mainly studies sciences, law, mathematics, and Ukrainian language, literature and history) and on IB program in British School of Brussels (BSB) where she studies high level mathematics, computer science, economics, biology, French, english literature, and arts.

Instagram: @est_luire

Maria Kourtidou is from Larissa, Greece where she studies at the Department of International and European Studies

Maria is a dancer, she loves painting, and she really adores listening to music.

Instagram: @_mariakourtidou_

Marina Karelina studies now both in Ukraine and in Switzerland because of the war.

In life, she adores singing, she is a Choir singer, and danced for 8 years modern dance, hip hop, contemporary modern and slow ballet.

Instagram: @_ccuddliess

Liuba Tanchak is the President of 48th High School in Kyiv, Ukraine.

She is a Ukrainian folk singer, an English language tutor, a volunteer and and an active leader of Sharm (Active District Youth of Shevchenkivski Area, all School Presidents).

Since autumn started, she made a video for the International Forum in New York.

Instagram: @tanchlove

Ioana-Teodora Dobre lives in Pitești, Romania, studying Social Sciences in the top high-school in her town.

Ioana-Teodora is crazy about volunteering, teamwork and working with kids, these are things she really loves to do.

She also knows how to play the guitar and she was part of a dance team for 9 years.

In the past 2 years, Ioana-Teodora participated in a lot of charity projects in her city and also in ecology and mountain sports activities.

In the summer of 2022, she spent one month volunteering for an English camp where she worked with hundreds of kids and people from all over the world. This experience changed her perspective about life and its beauties. But these activities are only possible for her because a few years ago she started to learn English after a long period of time when it was her worst nightmare.

Instagram: @teo_ioana2.4

Rumiya Imatshoevna is from Khorog, Tajikistan.

She lives in the United States but right now she is back in her home country to work at a mobile clinic (that goes around villages and provide free medical diagnostic)

Rumiya studies Biotechnology at the University of Kansas but she wants to become a physician

Her hobbies are: people watching, reading and traveling

Her biggest achievement is that she has established a PCR laboratory for c-virus testing in her home town. At that time, she was the only specialist then she started teaching others this specialty.

Instagram: @r.umiya

Samin Alemi is originally from Tehran, the capital of Iran, but she has been living in Malaysia for more than 13 years.

Samin is currently studying English Literature in her final year at UPM in Malaysia and working in the field of cinema in her country "Iran". She has a small resume of working as an actress in short movies and working as an assistant director.

Her interests are mainly in drama and cinema and she is also working in a theater production in Malaysia right now.

Samin's big dream is to become an actress and to have her own production because it was her passion since she was just a little kid.

In her free time, she loves to watch movies and play tennis.

Instagram: @samin_alemi

Nika Zimon is a Future Leaders Exchange Program Alumna of 2017 from Ukraine, and a former FLEX City Representative Dnipro.

Nika works in marketing, she loves philosophy and theology, plays the piano, and is involved in various charities.

Her focus is discovering and accepting herself and others.

Instagram: @nika__zimon

Amanda Niza Gonzalez Mejia is originally from Caracas, Venezuela, but grew up in US in the outskirts of DC, in Arlington, Virginia.

During High School, she was the Virginia Student Action Coordinator for Amnesty International, President of the Latin American Student Association and Student Representative for the Equity Team, Co-lead her school's Generation Ratify chapter (which organized multiple county-wide protests), and was a writer/editor for an independent student run publication called The Vanguard.

Amanda is currently studying Political Economy at Duke Kunshan University but she is very interested in Behavioral Science.

She loves listening to all kinds of music, hanging out with her friends, and working out. She just started college so she is looking to become more involved in extracurricular activities.

Instagram: @amandaniiza