Armenian Progressive Youth NGO Info-pack "Extremism? No, thanks" | Page 12

Maria Simonyan is a co-founder and Vice-president of Armenian
Progressive Youth NGO since 2009. For the last 3 years she has
been working as a trainer for different international training
courses. Her main topics of expertise are Democracy, Youth
Participation in political processes, Active Citizenship, Migration,
Youth Unemployment and European Voluntary Service. As a
youth worker and a trainer she believes that young people are
capable of doing significant changes in their countries. By
empowering and equipping them with certain skills and
competences, we can change the world for better!
Saida Ibrahimava is a Co-founder and the Director of Project
Development at International Youth to Youth Initiative, start-ups
manager, campaign designer and an expert in the field of youth
engagement and youth deradicalization. Saida has more than
ten years of successful experience in the nonprofit sector and
more than five years of working experience for governmental
institutions, including military organizations. She has
implemented more than twenty projects in the sphere of social
inclusion, youth development, education, sport and eradication
of extremism. Her major topics of expertise are Youth
Empowerment, Intercultural Dialogue and Cooperation, ICTs for
Social Change, Leadership and Sustainable Development