Maja Stojanović (Serbia)
Civic Initiatives (Serbia)Maja Stojanović is the Executive Director of Civic Initiatives, non-profit in Serbia. She is also President of the Board of Directors for the Human Rights and Democracy House in Belgrade. In addition, Maja is a member of Team Europe, a team of experts for the European integration process in Serbia, set up by the EU Delegation in Serbia and various non-profit and state working groups in the areas of education, civil society development, philantrophy and human rights. Maja has over 19 years of experience in the non-profit sector, including work in the anti-Milošević movements and other issues through the Students’ Union of Serbia, and serving as Executive Director of the Youth Initiative for Human Rights. She has over 10 years of experience in providing training for organizations and individuals in the areas of human rights, strategic planning and management, fundraising regional cooperation, activism and networking on national and international levels.
Maja initiated or was part of wide variety of campaigns in Serbia, most of them organized through in-kind fundraising, resulting in putting on government and international agenda the issues of Srebrenica genocide, human rights and media freedom.