Team & Leadership
No paid staff — just neighbours who show up, year after year, to plan, build and run the festival together.
The organizing core
Financial-literacy educator and certified Rotary trainer — the steady hand behind festival day at Riverside Park.
Rushnyk Pan-American Tour — Pan-American Tour Coordinator
Leads the festival's marketing and digital platform, plus the year-round UAFest.Business, Capital and Network projects.
Rushnyk Pan-American Tour — Marketing Strategy
Yuliia is one of the organizers who turns UAFest plans into visible, partner-ready work. She coordinates sponsorship and partnership relationships, contributes the festival's visual design, and supports project administration, grant work and design for the Rushnyk of Unity – Rushnyk of Victory Pan-American Tour.
Rushnyk Pan-American Tour — Project Administration, Grants & DesignEvery stage cue, every craft table, every detail
Beyond the organizing core, named volunteers lead the departments that actually run festival day. This is the current 2026 roster — everyone who has led a department in past years is credited for good in the UAFest Family directory.
The stage, the workshops, the history exhibits — everything that makes UAFest feel like Ukraine.
Games, crafts and a full day of activities for the festival's youngest guests.
The relationships that fund the free admission and the year's charity partnership.
Registration, site prep and the hundred small things that make festival day run on time.
Behind every stage cue and every craft table is a team of neighbours donating their time — the planning meetings pictured here run all year. Nobody on this page is paid; everyone shows up because they want the festival to exist.
Olga in action
Behind every stage cue and every last-minute fix is a neighbour who never clocks out. Olga Ialovenko leads UAFest as a volunteer, just like everyone else on the team.
“No paid staff” is not a slogan here — it is the whole operating model. Every department on this page is run by someone with a day job, a family, and a reason to care.
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