GRACE KENNAN WARNECKE

Ms. Warnecke was country director for Winrock International in Kyiv, Ukraine from 1999 – 2003 as well as director of the Women’s Economic Empowerment project (WEE). Previously she had been president of SOVUS Business Consultants; founder and project supervisor of the Volkhov International Small Business Incubator, Russia; executive vice president of the Alliance of American and Russian Women. She was founding executive director of the American-Soviet Youth Orchestra, and assignment editor in A Day in the Life of the Soviet Union. She was associate producer of a PBS documentary, “The First Fifty Years: Reflection s on U.S.-Soviet Relations,” winner of the Alfred I. Dupont Columbia University Award. She has served as an international election monitor in Ukraine and Azerbaijan and is currently writing a memoir. She is a graduate of Radcliffe College where she majored in Russian history and literature.