Michaela Gelnarová Email & Phone Number

Salzburg, Austria

Prague, Czechia

• Designing and facilitating participant-centered hands-on trainings for youth, youth workers and policy makers• Selected as the Czech representative for the 2023/2024 Training of Trainers cohort

Prague, Czechia

• Responsible for grocery categories with annual 11 million EUR net revenue at a unicorn startup • Negotiating prices and terms, managing a portfolio of 45 suppliers and 1300+ SKUs• Researching food trends, eating an incredible amount of awesome food

Prague, Czechia

• Co-creating communications strategy, designing visual identity, preparing media campaigns• Creating video animations, designing posters and social media infographics, editing photographs• Raising the reach of social media platforms sixty fold on Instagram, double on Twitter

Prague, Czechia

• Managing sexual misconduct prevention project at Czech universities with 15 000 EUR budget• Steering a team of four professionals, creating workshops, setting support system and mechanisms• Coordinating and facilitating harassment prevention workshops for bars, schools and universities

Prague, The Capital, Czech Republic

• Coordinating Korean B2B delegations, exhibitions and fairs, connecting over 70 business partners • Creating marketing materials; hired and managed five interns • Responsible for market research, product evaluation, and public procurement

Prague, The Capital, Czech Republic

Brussels Area, Belgium

• Organizing events, following and briefing Committee on Culture and Education, drafting reports• Monitoring media, creating social media content, administrating website, taking and editing photos

Grinnell, Iowa

• Appointed and supervised eleven cabinet officials and their year-long projects within USD 450,000 budget• Influenced institutional policy, including course timetables, new academic programing, and honesty code adherence• Represented student concerns about all aspects of academic life to college faculty and administration, facilitated communication• Served on a decision-making committee with Administrators and Board members regarding $80 Million building project

Grinnell, Iowa

The Office of Communications facilitates all of the College’s internal and external communications. This includes helping faculty and staff members and students publicize events; creating publications such as brochures, newsletters, and invitations; providing photography; and working with the news media.• As a photographer, I took high quality photographs and edit them in Adobe's Photoshop and Lightroom• Assisted the college's photographer during official photo and video sessions• Edited videos using Adobe's PremierPro• As a creative team member, I created content for school's website together with 8 other students• With the college's graphic designer, I designed posters, invitations, and promotional material for Grinnell College

Grinnell, Ia

• Created an online Czech classes for Alternative Language Study Option (ALSO) • Taught students Czech language in fast-pace heavy-speaking 2 credit university course• Used task based teaching approach to make learning as applicable as possible• Worked with Prezi, Quizlet, and Haiku Learning portals

Grinnell, Iowa

Provide technical support for Grinnell College students and staff, advance critical thinking and problem solving

Grinnell, Iowa

• Managing online sign up system • Customer service• Responsible for smooth operation of the office• Working closely with Laboratory's staff

Prague, The Capital, Czech Republic

Davis Projects for Peace Foundation is an initiative for all students at participating colleges to design grass-root projects that promote peace in a conventional or unconventional way. I received $10,000 to design and implement a project to combat anti-refugee sentiments in the Czech Republic through education.• Designed a proposal aiming at combating anti-refugee sentiments at Czech high schools through learning about a personal story of an Afghan refugee in the 1990s and received a $10,000 grant to execute it• Collaborate with teachers, historians, artists, and local organizations to integrate oral histories and new media technologies with more conventional pedagogies and public history best practices• Cooperated with student artists to create a 7 minute long animated documentary about a Afghan refugee• Created worksheets and factsheet for high school students• Currently, about 2,500 students from Czech and Slovak high schools participated in the project

Buenos Aires, Argentina

As a general intern at the Czech Embassy in Buenos Aires I worked with all of its sections (Economic, Cultural, Consulate)• drafting diplomatic notes• preparing economic analyses for Czech businesses, attending meetings and drafting reports• communicating with visitors, helping with administration tasks• preparing paperwork and official statements for embassy's internal and external communication• photography and PR• shadowing the Ambassador at events

Grinnell, Iowa

• Attended events and took high quality photographs• Photo post production

Prague, The Capital, Czech Republic

• Worked for the best patisserie in Prague• Learnt on the spot - making all pastries from scratch to a top notch final product• Marketed and sold pastries at Prague's farmer's marketsAll photos from www.instagram.com/votreplaisir/Learn Czech and more about this fantastic business at: https://forbes.cz/byvaly-hasic-dela-jedny-z-nejlepsich-dortu-v-praze-vsadil-na-francouzsky-styl/

District Ostrava-City, Czech Republic

Provided customer support and serviceWorked with reservation system Colosseum

Master Of Science - Ms, International Development

Classes focused on the politics of transparency, social inequality, global political economy and gender inequality. Received a distinction.

Bachelor'S Degree, International Relations And Communications, Graduated With Honors

Activities and Societies: Student Government Association, Gourmet Cuisine Society, Extreme Society, Friends of Slavs, Scarlet and Black.

Semester Abroad, Politics, Culture And Communications

A semester long study abroad in Chile with focus on language, photography, communications and culture. All classes were taught in Spanish.

Semester Abroad, European Union Program

A semester long study abroad in Freiburg, Germany, focusing on the European Union. Classes included Migration, Ethnic Minorities.