Alina Zelenaya sat in front of an audience of peers, community members and Venture Center employees recently during The Venture Center’s quarterly VC Innovate series. Viktoria Capek, The Venture Center’s communications and engagement manager, led the conversation with Zelenaya, who has been in Little Rock for a month participating in a professional exchange program.
Zelenaya, who is originally from Belarus but now lives in Warsaw, Poland, was chosen as one of only 25 people to participate in the professional exchange program through the American Councils Professional Fellows Program. Zelenaya was matched with The Venture Center, which has welcomed exchange partners for many years.
“[The program application] asks you about your work, about your experience, your network, to understand whether it will be useful for you to participate in this program and how valuable it would be to invite you to participate,” Zelenaya said…