Olga Gladkikh
Senior Program Staff, Advocacy & Citizen Engagement
Olga is a development communications specialist with 30 years of diversified experience as a communications practitioner and adult educator. Joining the Coady in 1987, Olga recently stepped down as the manager of educational programs to focus on her teaching and research interests. These include participatory communication, the use of mass media and new media as tools for social change, land rights movements in India and Nepal, and social learning processes. Olga’s overseas work includes training and consultancies with local, national and international NGOs in Asia (Nepal, India, Bangladesh and Philippines), Africa (Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Zambia and Egypt), the South Pacific (Fiji, Tonga, Vanuatu and New Caledonia), and Canada.
In the 23 years Olga has been at the Institute she has taught a wide variety of courses, and conducted workshops in facilitation skills, presentation skills, and mobilizing local resources. During this year’s Diploma in Development Leadership, Olga will co-facilitate the Foundations course, co-operative inquiries, the specialization in Advocacy and Citizen Engagement, and an elective in Communications for Development.
Olga holds a MA in Journalism and a BA in Psychology (Hons), both from the University of Western Ontario, and has completed course work towards a PhD in Adult Education from the University of Nottingham in the UK.