Natalija Vojno is the Director of Business Development

Natalija Vojno is a peace innovator who has worked on freshwater policy for the past decade on the local, provincial and international scale. A former speechwriter to Ontario’s Minister of the Environment and environmentalist, she led campaigns to curb plastic and nutrient pollution in the Great Lakes. A founding member of the Water Youth Network (WYN), she designed spaces for youth collaboration in water governance and has published on the roles of young leaders in water diplomacy.

Globally, she has spoken at the UN High-Level Political Forum on the role of youth in transboundary water governance, was a founding member of the Water Youth Network, and is an advisor to UNEP’s inaugural Faith for Earth Youth Council. She founded Our Future First to deliver peacebuilding initiatives e.g. the Balkan Youth Environmental Assembly. Natalija is trained in Soliya’s cross-cultural online dialogue facilitation methodology and in negotiation from the Clingendael Institute in the Hague. Natalija holds a BA from the University of Toronto, an MSc from UNESCO-IHE, and an MA from ICU, where she attended as a Rotary Peace Fellow.

This is her second time with RainGrid and a strong believer in the need for social infrastructure to work in tandem with green infrastructure, she is keen to realize RainGrid’s democratized, digitial, and distributed model of managing residential rain.