I'm trying to leave the world better than I found, to catalyze positive changes.

You can’t force a flower to bloom. It does so at its own pace, under just the right conditions. And there’s no going back. Only growth. Only forward. I suppose that’s what the thorns are for.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I like travelling. I enjoy meeting new new people and cultures. Couchsurfing may help me to do it. Also it can be the way to share my experience, interests, beliefs and the way I see this world.

Interests

• journalism
• peace
• human rights. journalism.

Music, Movies, and Books

BOOKS: of Haruki Murakam, Sauman Rushdie, Paulo Coelho, Albert Camus, Ernest Hemingway, Fyodor Dostoyevsky...

MOVIES: Youth, Agora, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, American History X, A Beautiful Mind; Incendies, The Imitation Game, The Reader, The Bridges of Madison County, Into the Wild, Forrest Gump, The Notebook.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I'm founder of organisation, which is called "For Human". Our organization creates and applies social innovations. We are implementing five continuous programmes and creates new ones.

I’m contributing to all of them, but mainly focusing on Human Rights Education and Media programme. Media programme on a regular basis hold discussions, workshops, seminars, formal and informal meetings with journalists, human rights experts, representatives of socially vulnerable groups and other NGOs.

We are carrying out journalistic investigations on the issues of human rights, transparency. One of our main goals is, together with independent journalists and editors, to examine problems that are outside of the media agenda.

I work on Hate Speech topics as well. We do media monitoring and make intervention if it is necessary teaching journalists and editors how to identify hate speech and react on it.

Teach, Learn, Share

Journalism, sociology, human rights, social inovations

What I Can Share with Hosts

I'm good at inspiring people and listening to what people don't say.

I can share my life story, and my "know how" how to start making possitive changes by yourself.

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Georgia, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Lithuania