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ISSUE 21, JUNE 2019
About Dena
Dena graduated from the American College of Sofia in 2006.
During her years at ACS Dena was part of Beseda Literary
magazine, College Life, the Musical production Club, and the
Hiking Club... She continued her studies at Whitman College,
WA, USA, where she majored in Rhetoric and Film Studies.
Following that, she pursued a M.Sc. in Political Science at
Pompeu Fabra University, Spain.
During her studies, Dena was an Abshire grant fellow researching
traditional birth practices in the Highlands of Ecuador; Labor
Trajectories for Latino Farmworkers in Washington State; and
Multilingualism across Europe.
She is currently working as Research Associate for the Trust
for Social Achievement and pursuing a PhD program in
Memory and Narrative Studies at Sofia University.
Dena sits on the board of NisiMasa, the European Network
for Young Cinema. She is a published writer of two collections
of short stories. During the 2018-2019 academic year Dena has
been serving as the alumni co-chair of the Students Activities
Fund at ACS.
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