Program Leaders
Dr. Kristen Ali Eglinton
Girl-talk-Girl Program Director
Kristen is the Program Director of Girl-talk-Girl and the Executive Director of Footage Foundation. On Girl-talk-Girl, Kristen is responsible for leading the team, developing the human-centered design and digital storytelling workshops...
Dr. Antonina Tereschenko
Girl-talk-Girl Program Manager
Antonina is the Girl-talk-Girl Program Manager and works alongside Kristen, the Program Director on various aspects of the US-Russia Peer-to-Peer Dialogue Program such as preparing workshops, the development of the toolkit, and building links and...
Partners & Sponsors
Rodnik has for 17 years, prevented marital conflict, supported children and youth, promoted gender equality, and served victims of human trafficking and migrant women throughout Kazakhstan.
Girl-talk-Girl Kazakhstan is a project sponsored and supported by the U.S. Diplomatic Mission to Kazakhstan (2019-2020).
From 2014-15, Elvira Arif of Higher School of Economics in St. Petersburg served as the Russia Program Coordinator.
Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg is a globally oriented university and Russia's market leader in teaching and research in the fields of economics, social science, and humanities.
Elvira Arif belongs to the Center for Youth Studies and is a lecturer in sociology at Higher School of Economics in St. Petersburg. Her interests include youth culture, issues of drug use and the body, gender studies, and discourse analysis. She also organizes photo exhibitions and contexts.
In 2017, Kateryna Siryk of Artil Maidan served as a program partner in Ukraine.
Artil Maidan develops and implements artistic projects, specifically related to culture and arts education.
Kateryna Siryk is a director of Artil Maidan. A psychologist and speech therapist by training, as well as a certified arts therapist, Kateryna has most recently worked with the internally displaced population in Ukraine and co-organized a number of art exhibitions in Kyiv.
In 2017, Oksana Potapova of Theatre for Dialogue served as a program partner in Ukraine.
Theatre for Dialogue uses theatre to discuss oppression with activists, members of discriminated groups, and people aiming at social innovation. Together, they find individual strategies and systemic solutions for issues that hurt.
Oksana Potapova is a trainer, facilitator, and advisor on civil society and strengthening programs for various international organizations (British Council; Pact, Inc). She holds a certificate in applied psychology from National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and graduated from the program, Intercultural Navigators, conducted by the British Council in Ukraine. She is a graduate of the training programs at Moscow Institute of Gestalt Therapy and Arts and Obraz theatre school. A participant of multiple trainings for trainers by international practitioners of the Theatre of the Oppressed, she is now a practitioner herself, i.e., a Joker.
In 2018, Dr. Valeska Grau Cárdenas, Co-Founder of Footage Foundation and an associate professor in the School of Psychology at Catholic University of Chile, served as a program partner in Chile.
Catholic University of Chile is a top-ranked university in Latin America that aims to achieve a solid education, founded in the sciences, arts, humanities and Catholic morals. Thus, the University aims for its students to be not only technically and scientifically prepared, but also to be open to different human realities and to the social and personal responsibilities involved in the complete development of a society.
Dr. Valeska Grau Cárdenas joined the psychology department at Catholic University of Chile as an assistant professor after obtaining her PhD at University of Cambridge. She has participated in several research projects related to the teaching and evaluation of literacy in deaf children, assessment of cognitive abilities of children with learning disabilities, and technological innovations in the classroom for children with and without learning disabilities. She is currently interested in the dimensions of school culture that promote and foster inclusion in Chilean mainstream schools.
Read about the rest of the Footage Foundation team here.