Ilda is a 23-year-old Finance and Accounting Master’s student with a long record of activism spanning environment, gender equality and youth empowerment. Her passion and need to act upon these issues and topics have been a fundamental part of her coming of age. She has been a key founding member of the Outdoors Ambassadors Tirana sponsored by the U.S. Embassy and Peace Corps. She also started volunteering as a trainer with Glow Albania, an initiative designed to help the next generation of girls to grow and become the leaders of tomorrow. Later on, she saw the opportunity to combine the causes and issues she was passionate about under the umbrella of civic engagement by joining the U.S. Embassy Youth Council in Tirana.
In 2019, she was selected as one of the two first Albanian Youth Delegates to the United Nations, a program that aims to increase the participation of the Albanian youth in the decision-making process.
Currently, she is between working as an Account Manager for start-ups and small businesses based in the US and attending her 2-year mandate as a Youth Delegate to the “Congress of Local and Regional Authorities” at the Council of Europe.
