Ivan Marovic - Executive Director
Ivan Marovic is an educator, software developer and social innovator from Belgrade, Serbia. He was a student organizer and one of the leaders of Otpor ("Resistance"), a youth movement which played an important role in the downfall of Slobodan Milosevic, authoritarian leader of Serbia in 2000. Since then he's advised numerous pro-democracy groups around the world and became one of the leading trainers in the field of strategic nonviolent conflict. Read more...
Bruce Pearson - Program Manager
Bruce Pearson is Program Manager at the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict (ICNC), where he supports online learning, fieldwork, fellowships, writing, and publishing on the use of civil resistance by movements to secure rights, freedom, and justice. With ICNC Press, he has coordinated the publication of twenty monographs, special reports, and resources for practitioners—for which fourteen he was volume editor. He is also the series editor for books in the Activist-Author Series. Bruce also manages the moderated and participant-led online courses and supports courses by ICNC partners and teaching fellows.
Cathy Smith - Program Advisor
Cathy advises and provides support to ICNC on program services related to global learning, educational initiatives, and other areas of the Center's work. She manages ICNC's translations program which is a comprehensive resource for all existing translations of civil resistance resources in the world. She comes to ICNC with many years’ experience as an extension and outreach coordinator for NC State University. She holds a BA in Mass Communication.
Amber French - Senior Advisor and Managing Editor of Minds of the Movement
Since joining the organization in 2014, Amber French has led in developing and managing ICNC’s editorial and media initiatives. Her current roles are Managing Editor of ICNC’s Minds of the Movement blog (est. June 2017); and Project Co-Lead of REACT (Research-in-Action), the ICNC partnership with ActionAid Denmark focused on the power of activist writing. Currently based in Paris, France, she continues to develop thought leadership on civil resistance in French. She led the development of an ICNC online course on civil resistance entirely in French and based on Francophone materials; has taught civil resistance at two French universities; and writes regularly for the French journal, Alternatives non-violentes.
Mariam Azeem - Learning and Curriculum Design Lead
Mariam Azeem possesses nearly fifteen years of experience and expertise in the field of education, training, and coaching for nonviolent civil resistance, human rights, women's leadership, and movement building. She supports and facilitates youth, women, and gender and sexual minorities in advancing their narratives of human rights and justice.