Social Impact Heroes: Why & How Olga Litvinenko of USA for Ukraine Is Helping To Change Our World

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As part of my series about “individuals and organizations making an important social impact”, I had the pleasure of interviewing Olga Litvinenko.

Olga Litvinenko came to the U.S. as a child and grew up in Greenwich.

Litvinenko has joined other Ukranian-Americans in Connecticut in working to fundraise and organize efforts to provide international aid to Ukraine.

Olga Litvinenko is a success story. She came from Ukraine with her family as a child and entered the Greenwich Public Schools and flourished. As a teenager she was volunteering, serving as a vice president of fundraising for Habitat for Humanity at Greenwich High. As a college student at Syracuse University with a major in marketing and finance she was mentoring those in her college community how to best run their businesses, to keep them out of poverty.

Olga would represent her state as Miss Connecticut USA 2017, while keeping her hand in supporting nonprofits like the Greenwich Hospital…