Christina Kushch-Katrakis
A highly qualified and experienced international business, culture, investment and political coordinator. Her career defies convention and incorporates business, the arts, philanthropy, politics and other fields to produce a multi-disciplinary and diverse world-view.
She has outstanding communication and organizational skills, developed in complex environments populated by competing egos and significant financial risks. She has always applied her creative energies to help organizations put their best feet forward and to maximize their opportunities. She has coordinated a number multimillion projects worldwide, such as The Orion Project– where she managed a $600 million investment project involving development of the resort, marina, town, community, facilities, retail & investments, island within an island project, Gran Turks and Caicos Islands; and “The country within the country – Lefkadia” a $450 million investment project incorporating a winery complex, eco food complex, community, infrastructure and real estate development, film studios complex, medical center, retail & tourism development, medical laboratory and education complex, clinic complex, university campus complex (Moscow/Krasnodar, Russia). Currently she represents one of the largest international investment firms, located in New York – “98 Global Group” and coordinates multi million investment projects internationally.
Her personal interest in politics and business, led her to the career of an Official International Political Coordinator for the leading Washington DC Lobbying Firm “The Delahunt Group”, working in cooperation with “BGR Group” (top 3 rating globally). She managed and curated large investment collections, such as the Christie’s Fine Art Auction Projects, The Forbes Private Collection, Voronov’s Museum of Art ($50 million investment), The Kings of Pop Art: Andy Warhol/ Indiana, Kennedy Collection, the private collection of Lord Bookatz, London and Kiwi Group, Miami. She’s a senior International Producer in a number of Hollywood and International Film Studios including Visionaire Media (Los Angeles/New York), Archer Films Corporation (Los Angeles/London/Sydney) and Mo'z Art Pictures (Los Angeles/Palm Springs). Throughout her career she has curated and co-coordinated major educational and cultural international projects such as the TEDx Forum in Vatican, Cambridge Scholarship, St Sophia Vatican Museum and numerous World Art Fairs project to name a few.
She is a “Freedom to Create” World Peace Prize Winner and an Official Ambassador for the Foundation for United Nations for International Relations SDg (Sustainable Development Global Project), as well as an Official International Coordinator of UNESCO, Bologna.
While she is a USA citizen, she comes from a family with a rich European heritage and background, holds titles of a princess and a countess. Her ties with Ukraine are truly legendary, since she is an official symbol of the country – she was a model for the monument of Independence (model for Berehynia statue), as well as the monument of the founders of Kyiv (model for Lybid) in the Independence Square of Ukraine in Kyiv. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina_Katrakis
Languages
Fluent in English, Greek, Ukrainian, Russian and Polish. Working knowledge of Italian and Spanish; Old languages: Ancient Greek and, Old Slavonic.
Education
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MFA, Studio Art & History
University of Memphis, USA
2005Master of Arts & History Studio Art, Arkansas State University
Arkansas, USA
2003BFA, Ukrainian National Academy of Arts
Kyiv, Ukraine
1998 - 2000Sorbonne, Paris & Lorenzo di Medici
Florence, Italy
1996 - 1998Shevchenko Ukrainian National Academy of Arts
Kyiv, Ukraine
1994 - 1998St. Nicholas Catholic School
Chicago, USA
1993 - 1994Glenn Echo Art School
Glenn Echo, Maryland, USA
1993English International Language Institute, School of Diplomacy
Washington DC,USA
1992 - 1993