At the American Enterprise Institute, UCU Foundation’s Chief Development Officer Alex Kuzma meets with students of the St. Gabriel Institute who are undergoing intensive training in advocacy and communications skills – an innovative program established by Metropolitan Archbishop Borys Gudziak. The Saint Gabriel Institute is an educational initiative of the Archeparchy of Philadelphia, Department for External Church Relations of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, and Ukrainian Catholic University, established to form a new generation of leaders for service in Church communications, diplomacy, and international engagement.
This photo was taken during the Ukrainian Week conference on February 2nd that brought together hundreds of Christian and Jewish activists from the USA and Ukraine to address the destruction of churches by Russian occupation forces and the persecution of clergy and lay leaders. From left to right: Fr. Nazaryi Dmyterko (Stamford, CT); Olena Peniazieva (Odesa); Julia Anna Kozankewycz (Paris); Alex Kuzma, and Anna Tereza Zherebetska (UCU in Lviv).
