Larysa Hayduk

Larysa Hayduk is the Director of the Ukrainian Resource and Development Centre (URDC) at MacEwan University. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Education from Ukraine, where she taught for nine years. Larysa earned a Master’s degree from the University of Alberta, with a focus on intercultural competence. Drawing from her extensive personal and professional experiences, she connects scholars and academics from Canada and Ukraine and leads a variety of international and community projects. Larysa is passionate about fostering innovative connections among people from diverse backgrounds, with relationship building, mindfulness, and reciprocity at the core of her work.