Pietro Fochi Pietro is currently serving as a Youth Delegate of Italy to the United Nations.

As a Youth Delegate, he joined the 73rd UN General Assembly focusing on social matters and the 57th UN Commission for Social Development. He advocates for the role of youth in the implementation of the Agenda 2030 and the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Pietro is also a social entrepreneur at EDUACTIVE, which provides replicable educational models to enable youngsters to take the lead in their own growing path. This venture been internationally recognized in the frame of the RiSE for Change fellowship (UNIDO and Fondazione CRT) and presented at the UN headquarters during the “Addressing inequalities through youth entrepreneurship” meeting (2019).

He is currently enrolled in the Law program of the University of Bologna.

Krenare - Krenare is the Head of the Regional Youth Cooperation Office (RYCO) in , which aims at advocating reconciliation and cooperation between the youth from the Western Balkans.

She has been actively engaged in the youth sector: she was the civil society representative from Kosovo in the Working Group of the RYCO (2015-2016) and also served as the Director of the Kosovo Youth Centers’ Network (2015- 2017). Krenare holds a BA in Economics from the University of Pristina and she is currently enrolled in the MBA program at the University of Staffordshire.

Lorenta Kadriu Lorenta is the Project Manager for the “Raise Your Hand for Help” project and works for the United Youth Task Force, which brings together young leaders from different religious and ethnic backgrounds with an aim to build inclusive youth policies.

She has been dedicated to volunteer work and created non-formal groups since she was a teenager. She was also part of the “Respect Our Rights”, “Balkan Sun Flowers” and “SOS Village Fushë Kosovo” non-formal groups. Realizing the importance of grassroots initiatives, she established the “Raise Your Hand for Help” non-formal group in Fushë Kosovo.

She currently studies Psychology at the University of Pristina.

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Fatmir Zymberi Fatmir works at RROGRAEK, an umbrella organization of Roma, Ashkali and Egyptians non-governmental organizations in Kosovo.

Through RROGRAEK, he seeks to raise awareness among women and girls of these communities, improving their health conditions and providing them with tools to improve their economic condition.

Fatmir holds a degree in Business Accounting and Finances from the Haxhi Zeka University.

Milica Jakovljević Milica is the Program Manager at NGO Aktiv where she works on improving multiethnic cooperation and further integration of the Kosovo Serb community.

Prior to her current engagement, she worked as a Government Liaison Officer with Mercy Corps Kosovo and as a Project Manager for the Advocacy Center for Democratic Culture.

Milica holds an MA from the Missouri State University where she had been awarded with a full scholarship from the USAID Transformational Leadership Program.

Fiorella Spizzuoco Fiorella is currently serving as a Youth Delegate of Italy to the United Nations.

As a Youth Delegate, she participated in the 73rd UN General Assembly, focusing on social affairs and on the implementation of the Agenda 2030. She has also travelled throughout Italy to talk about the role of youth in order to implement the Agenda 2030 and the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Fiorella holds a BA in Modern languages and cultures and an MA in International Relations; her thesis discussed the European Enlargement Policy.

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Blerta Thaçi Blerta is the Executive Director of the Open Data Kosovo and founder of the Girls Coding Kosova. Open Data Kosovo engages in with local developers to create apps for social good and Girls Coding Kosova encourages women to reach their full potential in technical fields.

She was awarded the FIDES Philanthropy Award (2016), the Women in ICT Award (2017) and was featured in the Forbes’ “30 Under 30” list (2018). She is a member of different local and international tech communities, including FLOSSK, Prishtina Hackerspace, Open Heroines and Code For All.

Blerta holds a degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Pristina.

Bjeshka Guri

Bjeshka is the Project Assistant within the project “Youth for Justice” of the Youth Initiative for Human Rights - Kosovo (YIHR KS). The organization is dedicated to promoting the rule of law and human rights, as well as strengthening the role of young people in the region.

She started working as a senior researcher and served as the Project Assistant for “Empowering Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian Communities’ youth voters in Kosovo” at the IHR KS. Her previous engagements include working as a researcher on at the Virtual Museum of Refugees and on the Kosovo Memory project, implemented by the National Library of Kosovo.

Bjeshka is currently enrolled in Ethology and Cultural Anthropology, as well as in Law at the University of Pristina.

Blert Blert is the Executive Director at the Center for Equality and Liberty (CEL Kosovo) which promotes and protects the rights of the LGBTI+ community and works towards an inclusive society in Kosovo.

Blert has been lobbying for the advancement of the LGBTI+ rights for years. He was also the first transgender activist in Kosovo who filed a request to change the name and gender marker in his ID card.

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Agnesa Qerimi Agnesa is the Executive Director of the Kosovar Youth Council (KYC), a youth non-governmental organization that aims at building an active participation of young people through youth participation in society.

For the past eight years, she has been working with KYC where she deals with youth-related projects and tackles education issues. She is also actively involved in the civil society and activism for gender equality.

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