IRYNA MYCAK is a professional communication strategist with experience in developing and implementing communication programs. Her professional experience includes both the non-profit and financial sectors. In the non-profit sector she developed national communication programs designed to increase and retain essential volunteer networks. In the financial sector her focus is on marketing credit unions, which have the unique capacity to strengthen the specific communities they serve.
Iryna has a long history of volunteer involvement in the Canadian Ukrainian community. Over the last 15 years she held leadership positions with the Ukrainian Youth Association of Canada. As a member of the Board of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress for six years, she chaired the Canada Ukraine Committee. During this time she organized three subsequent observer missions to Ukraine to monitor the presidential elections in 2004. Iryna is currently Chair of the National Holodomor Commemoration Committee Ukrainian Canadian Congress. She is a board member of the League of Ukrainian Canadian Women and League of Ukrainian Canadians.