Alessandra Perrone
Co-Founder, Addiopizzo
Project Assistant for the South Eastern Europe Observatory (SEE-OBs), Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime
Almedina Dodic joined the GI-TOC in March 2022 as Project Assistant for the South Eastern Europe Observatory (SEE-OBs). Almedina started her career in the CSO sector as a youth activist at the NGO New Horizon where she worked on projects that encourage interethnic and intercultural dialogue amongst youngsters in Montenegro in order to impact and reduce social problems. She lead projects that aimed at fighting corruption through encouraging media channels that operate in Albanian language in Montenegro and civil society activists, to investigate and report corruption, educate the public about corruption, and monitor the implementation of Public Administration Reform.
She is the founder of the NGO Eduko Plus whose programs are aimed at improving the quality of life for rural youth. She regularly organized study visits to local government institutions and religious institutions in order to familiarize them with cultural diversity. Almedina has also been involved in drafting youth policies at a local level.
She is fluent in English, Albanian, and Montenegrin, and has basic knowledge of Turkish.