Krisztina Gyory

Senior Training Manager

Krisztina joined EarthRights School in 2021. She is a youth worker, trainer, and coach specialized in youth engagement, inclusive, non-formal learning, mental health, and grassroots organization development. Krisztina comes from Hungary and has been living and working closely with local communities in South-East Asia for the past 10 years. She has supported community development, non-formal education, and mangrove reforestation projects in the South of Thailand with European Union Aid Volunteers, and she trained teacher educators in applying inclusive classroom practices in Myanmar as part of the new pre-service teacher education curriculum with the TREE Project by VSO and the British Council.

Throughout her career, Krisztina has involved hundreds of young people from disadvantaged backgrounds, rural areas, and ethnic minorities into civic activism, non-formal learning, and volunteering through international youth projects and networks among grassroots organizations in Europe and worldwide. She has trained local activists, youth workers, facilitators, trainers, coaches, and NGO leaders to become multipliers of using experiential, participatory, creative approaches, tools and methods in youth engagement and organization development in Eastern Europe, where she has also established a youth NGO and training center, and supported the initiation and growth of many others.

Krisztina holds specialized degrees in Inclusive Education and Mental Health, and an M.Ed. in Teaching English as a Foreign Language. She has completed courses on humanitarian and development field practice, business and life coaching, and multiple courses on teaching and learning methods and practices. As a trainer, she enjoys designing experiential, immersive, adventure-based learning processes, adapting methods from drama, arts, dance, outdoor education, and games.