Onorina Soric

Onorina Soric is Lead Venture Developer for Moldova at the Peace Dividend Initiative, where she leads market-driven programs that use private-sector development, entrepreneurship support, investment connectivity, and economic dialogue to advance resilience, social cohesion, and peacebuilding in fragile Moldovan contexts.

A 10-Year Civic Campaign Aims to Turn Local Trust Into Action

At the Aspen Ideas Festival, Heather Gerken, Brian Hooks, Jane Wales and other civic and philanthropic leaders cast Be the People as a decade-long effort to counter civic isolation by reconnecting Americans with local problem-solving. Their argument is that Americans retain more trust, generosity and desire to contribute than national political narratives suggest, but need institutions, cultural messengers and community organizations that make that shared agency visible and usable.

The Aspen InstituteJun 30, 202616 min read