Rare Girls

Diana Shepel is a hospitality management student in Spain, Marbella. In the previous years, Diana was professionally engaged in ballroom & latin dancing, she received a master of sports and took 7th place in the European Championship She is originally from Kyiv, Ukraine, and her biggest hobbies are traveling and taking photos. Instagram: @dianashepelll

Ana Maria Matei is a Romanian citizen living in the UK since she was 19, where she completed a 2 year management apprenticeship. Nowadays, she works as a Regional Planning Manager for one of the biggest giants in the retail market in UK. She covers the entire South-East area of UK and it’s a massive achievement since she just turned 22, while most of her other colleagues have worked in the industr...

Daiana Olteanu is a FLEX Alumni Coordinator of Romania, and a third year medical student at Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Bucharest, Romania. During her FLEX exchange year, which is a scholarship funded by the Department of State, she graduated from high-school in Missouri, U.S.A. In her free time from school and work, she volunteers at different events and the Medical Studen...

Anastasiia Unhurian is a FLEX Alumna ’17 from Ukraine in Indiana, United States, who is currently living in Armenia. She graduated with a Bachelor degree in English language and literature, and is keen on reading, cooking, needle felting and sometimes painting pictures by numbers. She is the eldest sister among 4 kids in her family and all of them are brothers, so she had an interesting life growi...

Alina Slobodian is a delegate of Ukraine at the European Youth Parliament (EYP) and a marketing student at Kyiv-Mohyla Academy student, which is the university of her dreams. Alina feels that her vocation is sharing experiences and motivating others to reach their goals. That’s why she decided to start teaching Ukrainian language to help last year of school students pass the exam on the highest gr...

Alina Dorosh is a FLEX Alumna '16 in the United States (Chesapeake, Virgina), where she studied at an American high school and lived with a host family for 10 months. Alina studied Arabic language and literature at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (KNU) and also at Kuwait University, and recently graduated with a Mater’s degree. She loves dancing, taking photos, and cooking. Instagram:...

Shino Horie is a Japanese citizen who used to live in Austria, she speaks German, and plans to start her studies in Germany to become a physiotherapist and a strength and conditioning trainer for professional players. In 2018-2019, she was an exchange student in Colorado, USA. Her hobbies are fitness, working out, doing other sports like puddle boarding, running, hiking, skiing and snowboarding. S...

Anastasiia Didenko is a Flex Alumna 2022 in Ohio and a student of Finance with the minor economics at Walsh University. Her hobbies include reading and learning languages, and she is currently studying Mandarin, German and Latin. Anastasiia graduated both from an American and a Ukrainian high school, she helped raise over USD$25k to help Ukraine, and has multiple interviews with newspapers and new...

Mariia Petrusenko is a student at Kingston College, who loves modern dance and drawing canvasses. Originally from the Lugansk region in Ukraine, she is now living in London, England. Instagram: @gorfona

Anastasia Siromakha is a polyglot, the head of self-government in her school in Kyiv, Ukraine, and an active person who often organizes valuable events for her peers. Anastasia won various literary competitions and is a person who is curious to try many things in this world. Instagram: @sianastasiss

Julia Borisenko is a handball player who won many competitions with her team, and an active volunteer. Her hobbies include video editing, theater, kayaking and learning English. Julia adores all different kinds of minerals and stones. In the near future, she plans to open her small shop where she will sell jewelry with stones . Julia wants to transfer some of the money she will earn to help the Ar...

Viktoriia Usenko is a Germanic languages philology student at National University of "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy" in Ukraine. She is a dancer with more than 10 years of experience, and with her modern dance group went to various competitions, including international ones, and won prizes. Viktoriia loves knitting, reading, and wrote a research paper on the Ukrainian language and won a prize. Instagram: @_...

Olha Kushnirova is a science student in Poltava. She loves learning languages and speaks Ukrainian, English and German. And currently learning French and Polish. Olha is a regular participant in international student exchange projects. For Example "My World" in Germany in July-August of 2022. Her hobbies are tennis, dancing, drawing, reading and taking photos. Olha adores working with kids and tha...

Viktoriia Burdiad is a FLEX alumna ‘22 from Cherkasy Ukraine to Franklin, Indiana, in the United States, a Franklin Community High School ’23, an Ukrainian Global University ’22, a PAX exchange student of February, a PAX Distinguished Leader, a volunteer with 100+ volunteer hours, a German National Olympiad 2020 qualifier, and an activist for Ukraine in the American community. Currently, she is pr...

Daria Shcherbak is a Candidate Master of Sport of gymnastics, champion of Luhansk region and a team member of Luhansk region in Ukraine Dasha has diverse achievements in law olmypiads, chemistry olympiads, and she loves sports and drawing. Currently, she is in Switzerland learning the German language, and a student of cybersecurity at Kharkiv National university of Radio Electronics. Instagram: @d...

Anna Tokar is an extraordinarily bright and creative individual from Kyiv, Ukraine. She has used her experience in different life areas and communication skills to inspire teens across Ukraine to improve their lifestyles. A passionate promoter of self-improvement and lifelong learning, Annie recognizes that her generation is rife with mental health issues because of social media and she's also rea...

Laura Moskalenko is a FLEX Semi-Finalist 2022, and a foreign languages student who loves volleyball, dancing, doing makeup, taking photos, listening to music, baking, handiwork, quilling, traveling, editing and making videos. In 2019, she won best delegate at ModelUN at her school and in 2021 she participated in ZaMUN. Laura participated in the 20th international festival-competition of children's...

Anna Shtandenko is a winner of chemistry, math, and english competitions, a Semi-Finalist of FLEX 2020, and an ENGin student. Her two passions are chemistry and cinematography. She is a quarter-finalist of International Tournament of Young Chemists, and she also published an article about chemistry pollution and filmed a short film about phone addiction. Instagram: @anyashtandenko

Maria Vitrenko is a Ukrainian who used to live in the USA, and her hobbies include traveling, going to the gym, learning about psychology, and Greek mythology. Her future goals is to become an OB GYN or work in the UN, like her father. Instagram: @xoxo.maria.v

Oleksandra Samborska is a FLEX Alumni Coordinator for American Councils. FLEX (Future Leaders Exchange) Program allows you to spend 10 months living in America and dive deeper into that culture. Sasha is a FLEX alumna, so during her year in 2018 and 2019, she lived in Loveland, Colorado. Currently, she's traveling a lot, creating projects in different countries and trying to support Ukraine as muc...

Masha Vysotska is a FLEX Alumna '17 & a senior at Minerva University (USA) concentrating in Brand Management & Scalable Growth Masha enjoys discovering the world, learning behavioral science, doing tarot card readings and approaching life with a slow living mindset Masha is proud to study in the most innovative university in the world and to experience different lifestyles in seven countri...

Ioana Istrate is a student of Natural Sciences, and her hobbies include socializing with friends, reading books, going to the gym and especially playing volleyball. She was accepted to some of the best educational institutions in Romania, and is constantly aiming to get better. Instagram: @ioana_istr25

Katerina Pogrebniak is a Bachelor of International Relations & Social Communications at Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University. And also currently studying coaching and psychology. Kate is a polyglot who loves learning foreign languages. She speaks Ukrainian, Russian, English, as well as developing her knowledge of German, French and Turkish. Kate is a dancer with 15 years of experience, including b...

Sofia Tretiak is a FLEX Alumna 2021 in Montana, USA. Born in Lviv, Ukraine, her hobbies include video-creation, video-editing, photography, blogging, and singing Sofia also danced for 10 years in the the Ukrainian folk ensemble Last year, she participated in German debates and was able to receive the 3rd place at the national level, and she wrote a scientific research for the Junior Academy of Sci...

Xenia Makeyonok is  a volleyball player from Riga, Latvia; Her hobbies include baking, reading books, and comics. In the future, she will continue her education in Norway or in the United Kingdom. Instagram: @mxjusha