Team

Maryna Bohun

Maryna Bohun

She has over 5 years of experience in developing and implementing communication strategies, more than 10 years in marketing, and over 6 years in sales. During the war, she launched a new social entrepreneurship project for internally displaced women from the Luhansk region — Love Rises, which empowers women to engage in their favorite activity (knitting) while gaining economic independence.
She is also the founder of the "Against All Odds" project, which unites women entrepreneurs from Luhansk who started businesses in Ukraine after the full-scale invasion.

She holds a Master’s degree in Public Administration from the Ukrainian Catholic University and is a graduate of the Leadership Academy for Development program at Stanford University led by Francis Fukuyama. She is a member of the Aspen-Kyiv community and has experience designing and implementing successful crowdfunding campaigns for social initiatives, including for the think tank Vox Ukraine, the project "Veterans Build", and Seeds for Ukraine.

She is the founder of the NGO Grow Up Foundation, which focuses on supporting children and women from Luhansk who were forced to flee their homes due to Russian aggression. She is also the co-founder of the project "The Road to the East", which included business and cultural-educational initiatives for eastern Ukraine before the full-scale war.
Additionally, she is a singer, songwriter, and actress in the musical "Got to Be Free."