Igor is a graduate of Boston University with a MS in engineering. He also holds a degree from KhPI, Ukraine. Igor has managed teams and departments within banking, finance, hedge-funds, and manufacturing groups, as well as built several successful businesses. Igor enjoys travelling and playing sports. With his wife Julia, he co-founded RememberUs.org.

Aleksey is a doctor by trade with a degree from Odessa National Medical University. He has years of experience in neuropathology, and worked as an ER doctor. His second degree is in economics. Aleksey’s passion is entrepreneurship. Ten years ago Aleksey co-founded the 1TVS School in Kyiv. One of his students created a final project on the subject of Holocaust, which led Aleksey on a coincidental journey to meet Igor and become deeply involved in RememberUs.org volunteer work. Most our projects and events in Ukraine are managed and/or coordinated by Aleksey.

Rachel is a graduate from The George Washington University. She established our marketing program and social media team, where she was its first manager. Today, Rachel is involved with external relations: marketing, fundraising, and “blocking and tackling”. Her day job is as a consultant at McKinsey & Company. Rachel strongly supports the cause and is passionate about helping people.

Brendan is a free and open source software developer in New York City with a corporate IT gig as a day job. He supports our own website as well as all websites for on-line museums that we created (at the moment: Mihgorod, Kremenchuk, Lypovets  and Bila Tserkva). Brendan was the first person who joined our volunteer team and he helped us to setup all our sites.

Nelya is a lawyer by trade and a discoverer by heart. She lives with her family in Poltavs’ka region. In order to preserve the local history she founded “Museum – Estate of Green Tourism Omelkova Khata” and public organization “Khorol Region’s Initiative”.  During her trips to document local stories and collect artifacts, Nelya came across killing sites and learned about the local Holocaust Tragedy. She joined our volunteer team because she “could not do otherwise”. During the war she transformed her museum into a refugee center.

Nastya is a proud 9th generation of Kyivan.  She is not only a talented designer, but she also applies her concepts working with multiple media – paper, yarn, wire, wood, paint, computer graphics, and much more.  She worked with us to design and implement three Holocaust museums in public schools in Mirhorod, Fastiv and Lypovets.

Michelle is currently pursuing a bachelor’s degree in design at Northeastern University. When she’s not drawing, painting, or making various crafting projects, Michelle likes to fill her free time with dancing and playing piano. She is passionate about participating in work that makes an impact and hopes to use art and design to do so in her future career.

Vera was born in the Soviet Union in what was then Leningrad and immigrated to the United States with her family in 1989. She earned a B.A. in Accounting in 2005 from The George Washington University in Washington D.C. and is pursuing a Master’s of Science in Finance at Johns Hopkins University. She runs an accounting and finance department for a small company in Washington D.C. She is keen on making a real impact.