Yelyzaveta Kochekova is a Junior Communication Consultant at the Black Sea Trust for Regional Cooperation. She is responsible for communicating with the Ukrainian NGOs, the fund's grantees, intending to improve the visibility of their projects. She is also a Communications Manager in Kyiv-based NGO Young Agents of Change, aimed to share democracy and human rights values through international projects with the youth in Ukraine and abroad. Yelyzaveta holds an M.A. in International Relations from Ivan Franko Lviv National University in Ukraine and M.A. in European Studies from Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University in Georgia.