Yanina is a media practitioner, freelance journalist and researcher in the field of arts and alternative communications as tools for social change and tool to translate sustainability.

In 2006 together with 3 other young people in Bulgaria, they founded the significant Let us save Irakli campaign. Yanina was and is coordinating the movement and mostly its communications and PR for 4 years now. For more than 2 years she was also program manager of Art for social change program at the Red House center for culture and debate in Sofia.

Yanina is also co-founder of the interdisciplinary platform for sustainable shared future Future Friendly. She is also media and communication adviser for various NGOs and grassroots groups in the field of sustainable development and environment as the first Sustainability & Balkan culture festival and forest center in Bulgaria - Beglika Free Fest (www.beglika.org).

Since 2007 she is chairwoman and since 2008- managing director of the IDEAS FACTORY arts and communication for social change collective. She has BA in Mass communications from Sofia University and Leipzig University, MA in artistic psycho-social practices at New Bulgarian University in Sofia and currently doing MA in Cultural Anthropology at Sofia University St.Kliment Ochridsky. She has also a clown-diploma and experience as a performer.

I believe in creative communication as a powerful social change tool in a world like ours where diversity exists but is not always welcomed. On my opinion media has crucial role in building image and therefore - understanding on the way to peace as essential foundation for living in an intelligent sustainable world"."