Cosmin lives in Chicago. A firm believer in the power altruism, and doing things greater than yourself. Graduated from Roosevelt University with a mater's in Actuarial Science.
Ligia Apostoaia
Founding Angel
Board of Directors
Secretary of the Board, CEO of MDL Investments
Founding Member
Volunteer
Teacher
Ligiaās charity involvement began at a very young age, helping her family foundation with the distribution of humanitarian aid to the families in need in the area immediately. Today she continues to do what she is most passionate about: doing good.
Mirela is co-founder of Spera Foundation, an organization that provides opportunities to underprivileged children in Romania to continue their education, achieve academic excellence, and ultimately make a positive impact in their communities.
Anca has been with CPS since 2014 teaching Special Education. She also taught Geography and English, and she worked for National TV in Oradea and Bucharest. She has a bachelor degree in Romania and a master of Ed at DePaul in Chicago.
Started teaching Romanian language and literature, Universal literature, Latin language and other optional courses in 2004. The professor is fascinated by the power of the word to connect people and to reproduce all the nuances of the human soul.
Full stack engineer working at Amazon/Alexa. Not long ago, breaking the cloud at AWS, building web services at scale to solve BigData problems. Mike lives in San Diego and chose to teach Math to be an inspiration for children, including his two daughters.
Master of Science in Computer Science from Bucharest University, Faculty of Mathematics (1996)
"No task is too small"
Since she moved to Chicago, Gabiās Romanian roots became stronger. She believes in community and giving back and wants her children to be proud Romanians. Sheās been a passionate teacher of Italian for over 25 years.
Eli is a professional software developer in Chicago and has been teaching computer programming with RUF since April 2020. He is excited to promote curiosity and interest in STEM fields and inspire children in an engaging and fun class.
Mihai Lehene
Founding Angel
Board of Directors
Founder of RUF. President of FORA.
Founder
Volunteer (full)
Teacher
Mihai is the Owner of MDL Investments, a real-estate and VC family-office with a focus on emerging technologies, including fintech, biotech and crypto. In 2020 Mihai resigned his business roles to run RUF, and in 2022 he was elected as President of FORA.
Is a finance major with a Masterās degree in Project and Process Management. He gained extensive experience in change management, designing roadmaps, and managing client relationships at both institutional and individual levels.
Born in Ialomita, Romania, teaching was always a passion. It took her from graduating from the "Carol 1" high school in Fetesti, philology and foreign languages section, to the University Ovidius in Constanta.
Alina is the Founder of My Romanian World Publishing House. She has been teaching Romanian for 8 years at the St. John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Church. As of 2022, Alina has 37 children learning Romanian in her classes.
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