Katarina Polonska

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Volunteer Experience

  • Women for Women International Graphic

    Policy Intern

    Women for Women International

    - Present 9 years 1 month

    Civil Rights and Social Action

    Policy and fund-raising intern at the Women for Women International UK HQ.

  • THE BESPOKE BLACK BOOK LIMITED Graphic

    Freelance Journalist

    THE BESPOKE BLACK BOOK LIMITED

    - Present 10 years 8 months

    Arts and Culture

    As an online magazine you can take The Bespoke Black Book with you anywhere as your guide-on-the-go to a world of luxurious purchases and pursuits.

    In my spare time, I’m an international writer for the Bespoke Black Book. My features include general luxury lifestyle reviews, fine-dining, and travel. This hobby keeps my wanderlust, inner writer, and literature grad happy!

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    Mentor

    The University of British Columbia

    - Present 5 years 9 months

    Education

    Currently mentoring students completing the Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs.

Publications

  • Матери и жены: (Re)Appraising Russian Women’s Empowerment Strategies in Post-Soviet Russia’s Public Sphere

    In this paper, I examine how mainstream development discourse pertains to women’s empowerment in post-Soviet Russia since 2012. Despite the formal commitment exemplified by Russia’s signing of the United Nations’ Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (1981), and its authorising of Western feminist NGO activities, scholars agree that Russian women are currently disenfranchised within an anti-feminist political system. Nonetheless, I contend that women are…

    In this paper, I examine how mainstream development discourse pertains to women’s empowerment in post-Soviet Russia since 2012. Despite the formal commitment exemplified by Russia’s signing of the United Nations’ Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (1981), and its authorising of Western feminist NGO activities, scholars agree that Russian women are currently disenfranchised within an anti-feminist political system. Nonetheless, I contend that women are generating movements and empowering themselves through the creation of quasi-public spheres, through which they are exerting agency and achieving strategic life choices. In this paper, I will demonstrate how women are asserting greater authority over their identities and daily lives, their legal and political voices and capabilities, and their movements and public participation through these quasi-public spheres.

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  • Masculinity in the Domestic Space: Raymond Carver

    The Raymond Carver Review (peer reviewed)

    The Raymond Carver Review, a peer-reviewed, electronic journal which seeks to publish the best critical work both from established and emerging Carver scholars around the world. Each issue includes a section of peer-reviewed essays, sometimes on a special topics, and these are supplemented by interviews, guest editor’s essays, book reviews, and special features, such as bilingual poetry.

    Begun by members of the International Raymond Carver Society, the RCR is produced by international…

    The Raymond Carver Review, a peer-reviewed, electronic journal which seeks to publish the best critical work both from established and emerging Carver scholars around the world. Each issue includes a section of peer-reviewed essays, sometimes on a special topics, and these are supplemented by interviews, guest editor’s essays, book reviews, and special features, such as bilingual poetry.

    Begun by members of the International Raymond Carver Society, the RCR is produced by international Carver scholars devoted to promoting the study of this important and influential author. The editorial and advisory boards who contribute to making the RCR available are located in the US, Canada, Italy, Ireland, Israel, France, Switzerland, and Puerto Rico. Our readers are world-wide.

    The Raymond Carver Review, designed by Liz Wyglendowski, lead multimedia developer for Educational Technology & Distance Learning, is edited by Robert Miltner, Associate Professor of English at Kent State University Stark and by Vasiliki Fachard, Independent Scholar in Switzerland. It is hosted by the English Department at Kent State University. The Raymond Carver Review is produced in cooperation with The International Raymond Carver Society.

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  • Language and Creativity: A study into diary writing

    Innervate

    You can read my published essay online.

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  • Modern British Fiction: Kazuo Ishiguro and Jeanette Winterson

    Innervate

    You can read my published essay online.

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Courses

  • Hoffman Institute

    The Process and also Q2

Projects

  • Expo Vinis Trade Fair for Bodega Raffy

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    I flew to South America to represent the Bodega Raffy Brand at Expo Vinis in Sao Paolo, South America’s largest wine trade fair where I was Brand Ambassador and secured pre-sales of the wine at to various Brazilian clients.

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    I helped source wines including a range of premium Argentine wines, prosecco's and French producers for an up-and-coming wine distribution business in South America.

Honors & Awards

  • Jesus College Prize for Distinction in Masters

    Jesus College

  • Clarendon Scholarship Award

    The Clarendon Fund

    Oxford is proud to be able to offer a very high number of fully-funded scholarships each year, with around 900 on offer in 2015-16. Clarendon is one of the biggest of the University’s scholarship schemes, offering around 140 new scholarships each year. Clarendon scholarships are competitive, prestigious and highly sought-after. Clarendon’s additional appeal lies in its unique community of scholars.

    In 2014-15, there are around 350 Clarendon scholars at Oxford representing more than fifty…

    Oxford is proud to be able to offer a very high number of fully-funded scholarships each year, with around 900 on offer in 2015-16. Clarendon is one of the biggest of the University’s scholarship schemes, offering around 140 new scholarships each year. Clarendon scholarships are competitive, prestigious and highly sought-after. Clarendon’s additional appeal lies in its unique community of scholars.

    In 2014-15, there are around 350 Clarendon scholars at Oxford representing more than fifty different countries.

    The University has one goal in mind when selecting Clarendon scholars: to choose the best students worldwide, as decided by experts in each student's field. While scholars are selected solely on academic criteria, Oxford believes that by selecting and nurturing the best and brightest minds in any given field the advancement of their study at Oxford will, by its very nature, produce leaders in that field. Furthermore, the process of selection means that the Clarendon community is composed of students from across the University's four academic divisions, as well as students from the Department for Continuing Education; this diversity provides great opportunities for interdisciplinary interaction amongst the scholars.

    The Scholars' Association is extremely active in providing events which range from the academic and educational, via the careers-oriented, to the cultural and social.

  • Best Dissertation of American Studies 2011

    University of Nottingham

    Awarded academic prize for delivering the American studies dissertation with the highest grade in the 2011 academic year.

    A necessarily revisionist thesis on Raymond Carver's literature, it is currently awaiting publication.

Test Scores

  • WSET Advanced

    Score: 99/100

Languages

  • Russian

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • Slovak

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • Czech

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • Spanish

    Limited working proficiency

  • Spanish

    Elementary proficiency

  • French

    Limited working proficiency

Organizations

  • Institute of Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability

    Affiliate

    - Present

  • Oxford Clarendon Scholarship Society

    Award Recipient

    - Present

  • Hoffman Institute

    Graduate

    - Present

    Founded in 1967, the Hoffman Process is a week-long residential and personal-growth retreat that helps participants identify negative behaviors, moods and ways of thinking that developed unconsciously and were conditioned in childhood. The Process will help you become conscious of and disconnect from negative patterns of thought and behaviors on an emotional, intellectual, physical and spiritual level in order to make significant positive changes in your life. You will learn to remove habitual…

    Founded in 1967, the Hoffman Process is a week-long residential and personal-growth retreat that helps participants identify negative behaviors, moods and ways of thinking that developed unconsciously and were conditioned in childhood. The Process will help you become conscious of and disconnect from negative patterns of thought and behaviors on an emotional, intellectual, physical and spiritual level in order to make significant positive changes in your life. You will learn to remove habitual ways of thinking and behaving, align with your authentic self, and respond to situations in your life from a place of conscious choice. https://www.hoffmaninstitute.org/process/

  • Green Drinks Networking Society

    Member

    - Present

    Green Drinks, is a fun networking event for environmentally minded people. www.greendrinks.org

  • The Wine Spectator

    Member

    - Present

    Wine Spectator is a lifestyle magazine that focuses on wine and wine culture. www.winespectator.com

  • The Association for Neuro Linguistic Programming

    Member

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    The Association for Neuro Linguistic Programming (ANLP) is the Association for NLP Professionals. ANLP is already synonymous with best practice and we continue to establish our reputation as one of the most professional and trusted independent NLP membership organisations in the world. http://www.anlp.org/

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