Institutional development expert with Internews Network. She leads Internews' efforts to enhance media literacy in Bosnia-Herzegovina, within the Strengthening Independent Media (SIM) in BiH Project. With a post at Internews, she managed to combine two things she is passionate about: media and education as generators of social change.
Before she joined Internews at the end of 2010, she ran the Development Office of United World College in BiH, where she organized educational activities for high school teachers in B&H and fundraising for the organization. Ms. Tihak was head of a Project Development Department of ACIPS, a Bosnian think-tank that promotes democracy, human rights and free elections and was also editor-in-chief of New Perspectives, a quarterly magazine issued by ACIPS. For several years she worked as a news reporter for the BHTV, national public broadcast TV station in BiH. She holds an M.A. in human rights and democracy in South East Europe, from the joint M.A. programs of Sarajevo and Bologna Universities, and B.A. in journalism from Sarajevo University. Ms. Tihak was born in Bihac, BiH.
She is devoted mother of a two year old son, and a wife. Professionally as well as emotionally, she is dedicated to work toward making BiH a better place to live at, for the next generation.