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Kratka Biografija Curriculum Vitae Jelena Jovanović December 21, 1982 Bajcsy Zsilinszky út 63, 1065 Budapest, Hungary tel.: +3630 60 91 898 E-mail: [email protected] INTERESTS AND STRENGTHS • Gender studies, intersectionality, Romani women’s activism, anti-human trafficking policies, qualitative research methods, discourse analysis, education of Roma in Central and Eastern Europe • Intellectually curious and interested in knowledge exchange • Hardworking, responsible, ambitious, persistent and vocal, capable of both individual and teamwork RELEVANT WORKING EXPERIENCE • Junior Research Fellow in the Center for Policy Studies (Central European University, Budapest); profile: https://cps.ceu.edu/profiles/research-fellow/jelena_jovanovic (October 2014-present) - Conducting independent qualitative research on anti-human trafficking policies (discourse on Roma as one of the vulnerable groups and its effects on the policy implementation) - Programing and implementation of a project about employment and employability of highly educated Roma in mainstream not-for-profit organizations - Co-editing, co-authoring and coordinating a book project (a volume about Romani women’s political activism in CEE) (present) • Grant Program Assistant in Roma Education Fund (international organization, Budapest) (July- October, 2013) - Building capacities of local nongovernmental organizations - Monitoring - Grant management - Data management • Program Assistant in Roma Inclusion Office of the Government of Vojvodina (November, 2010- August, 2011) - Teacher, librarian and workshops’ leader in a library in a Romani community (Šangaj, Novi Sad) - Proofreader of the monthly newsletter The Decade of Roma Inclusion in Vojvodina 1 • Teacher of Serbian Language and Literature in elementary school Jovan Jovanović Zmaj in Pančevo, Serbia (April-October, 2010) INTERNSHIPS • Country Facilitator Assistant in Roma Education Fund (international organization, Serbia) (June- September, 2012) - Data management - Event management - Programing (preparing project proposals) - Grants management - Translation - Data collection RELEVANT CONFERENCES, SEMINARS, MEETINGS • April, 2013 - Seminar on Gender, Ethnicity and Class in Roma Studies – Whither Intersectionality? Presentation Portraying Romani Women in Cyber Space: Self- representations of Romani Women on the Internet, Cluj-Napoca, Romania • April 2015 - Reasonable Accommodations & Roma Issues in Contemporary Europe: A Symposium on Global Governance, Democracy and Social Justice: Presentation ‘Vulnerability of Roma’ in Policy Discourse on Combatting Trafficking in Human Beings in Serbia: Perspectives of the National Policy Actors, Duke University, Durham and Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, the United States • October 2015 - 9th EU Anti-Trafficking Day and the EU Civil Society Platform against Trafficking in Human Beings, Brussels, European Parliament POLICY PRACTICE • Member of the EU Civil Society Platform Against Trafficking in Human Beings (October, 2015- October, 2016) BOARD MEMBERSHIP • Roma Education Fund, SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM for Tertiary Education, National Selection Board for Serbia (AY 2015/16-present) EDUCATION – DEGREES • Degree: Erasmus Mundus Joint Master’s degree in Women’s and Gender Studies (2012-2014) Central European University, Budapest, Hungary and University of Hull, Hull, UK • Non-degree program: Roma Access Programs (2011/2012) Central European University, Budapest, Hungary • Degree: Master of Arts in Serbian Language and Linguistics (2010/2011) Faculty of Philosophy, Novi Sad, Serbia • Degree: Teacher of Serbian Language and Literature (2004-2009) Faculty of Philosophy, Novi Sad, Serbia 2 PUBLICATIONS • Jovanović, Jelena (2013), Creating the Roma as Sexual Other: Imagining Romanies in European Discourses [published in Serbian], Interkulturalnost, Novi Sad: Zavod za kulturu Vojvodine, p. 150-62. • Jovanović, Jelena (2015), 'Vulnerability of Roma' in Policy Discourse on Combatting Trafficking in Human Beings in Serbia: Perspectives of the National Policy Actors, CPS Working Papers, Budapest: CEU Center for Policy Studies • Jovanović, Jelena (2015), 'Vulnerability of Roma' and Anti-Human Trafficking Policies in Serbia: Recommendations to the National Policy Network, CPS Policy Briefs, Budapest: CEU Center for Policy Studies • Jovanović, Jelena (2015), Challenges to Preliminary Identification of Romani 'Victims of Trafficking': The Serbian Case, CPS Working Papers, Budapest: CEU Center for Policy Studies • Jovanović, Jelena (2015), Challenges to Preliminary Identification of "Victims" of Forced Marriage and Forced Begging in Serbia: Recommendations to Anti-Trafficking Policy Actors, CPS Policy Briefs, Budapest: CEU Center for Policy Studies • Jovanović, Jelena, Angéla Kóczé and Lídia Balogh (2015), Intersections of Gender, Ethnicity, and Class: History and Future of the Romani Women’s Movement, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Working Papers, Budapest: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung • Jovanović, Jelena and Anna Daróczi (2015), Still Missing Intersectionality: The relevance of feminist methodologies in the struggle for the rights of Roma, Roma Rights 2: Nothing About Us Without Us? Roma Participation in Policy Making and Knowledge Production, pp. 79-83. OTHER SKILLS AND COMPETENCES • Serbian language knowledge (Native) • English language knowledge (Advanced) • Microsoft Office REFEREES Violetta Zentai, Co-director and Research Fellow in the Center for Policy Studies and Professor at the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology and School of Public Policy at the Central European University (profile: https://people.ceu.edu/violetta_zentai), [email protected]; Angéla Kóczé, Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Wake Forest University, USA, [email protected] 3 .
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