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Alyse LaVoie is GMF’s digital communications manager. She leads the organization’s digital media messaging, strategy, and social media.

LaVoie’s professional experience includes stints in international public affairs and government relations, when she contributed to public diplomacy campaigns. She has also worked with the United Nations Development Programme, Eurasia Group, and the US Department of Commerce’s Office of Public Affairs.

LaVoie is a graduate of Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, and of American University.

Ievgeniia Bodnya is a Berlin-based nonresident fellow researching the roles of local communities, government, the international community, and civil society in Ukraine’s reconstruction process. She coordinates international aid for de-mining with the mine action support team in Ukraine’s economy ministry. She also works on sectoral reforms, EU integration, international cooperation, and public policy development. 

Bodnya previously worked at the Reform Delivery Office in Ukraine’s cabinet of ministers. While there, she focused on the country’s recovery plan, supported the government’s participation in the Multi-agency Donor Coordination Platform for Ukraine, and coordinated the Ukraine recovery conferences in Lugano, London, and Berlin. She is a Manfred Wörner Seminar alumna and a member of the Global Shapers Community. 

Bodnya holds a master’s degree in public policy from the University of Cambridge, and degrees from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland, and the Stern Leadership Academy, which operates in collaboration with the Stanford Graduate School of Business Executive Education.

Ilaria Magazzino is the coordinator for GMF’s development team in the Brussels office. She handles the organization's multilateral sector portfolio.

Magazzino also heads the donor relations activities of the development team and is responsible for outreach and strategic engagement with all current GMF donors and partners.

Austin Slater is the Press Officer for the Alliance for Securing Democracy at the German Marshall Fund of the United States where he leads communication efforts that bring attention to autocratic efforts attempting to undermine democratic institutions.