Motivated by my BA thesis experience with Rebecca Manley, I completed a Master of Arts in European, Russian and Eurasian Studies in September 2008, writing my dissertation on the experience of Ukrainian Forced Labourers in Nazi Germany (1939-45). After working at the British High Commission (Ottawa) on various files related to climate change, and the Canadian Bureau for International Education on the Libya-Canada Exchange Programme, I joined Ascentum, Inc. as Consultant in December 2009. Ottawa-based Ascentum is Canada's leading public participation and engagement firm, specializing in helping its clients engage their stakeholders and Canadians at large in the most pressing public policy decisions of the day.