Katarína Bartovičová Katarína spent more than a decade at Greenpeace Central & Eastern Europe, initially focusing on keeping a close eye on the organisation’s finances and ensuring the Greenpeace Slovakia office didn’t fall apart, and later on fundraising from individual donors for complex environmental causes. In 2009, together with several other third-sector enthusiasts, she co-founded the Slovak Fundraising Centre and has been its Deputy Chair since then.
In 2016, Katarína joined the leading Brussel-based digital rights advocacy group, the European Digital Rights (EDRi), as a Senior Fundraising Manager. In addition to working for EDRi, Katarína provides fundraising consultancy, delivers fundraising trainings and together with her colleague & lifelong friend, Eduard Marček, co-organises the CEE Fundraising Conference, an annual flagship event of the Slovak Fundraising Centre taking place since 2010 in Bratislava. In the rare moments she’s not chasing unrestricted income, she enjoys making upcycled jewelry from old watch/clock parts, jewelry fragments, and the like, found at antique shops, curiosities and oddities markets across Europe, under Steampunk Queen Jewelry brand and keeping her 4 cats thoroughly spoiled.