Galina is multilingual, a Fulbright scholar, graduate of Leningrad State University. mother to Alexandra, and served as secretary of one of the first Russian NGO’s “Russian-American Women’s Lovett’s Center,” and as the first secretary of Avachinsky Rotary club. She is a Paul Harris Fellow and joined Rotary because this is an International organization uniting people from all over the world, not alienating people; because its principles are equality, compassion and help to people in need; because it is not about power and supremacy, but about development of potential and peace.