Before joining Teach For Bulgaria in 2010, Evgenia Peeva-Kirova worked as a management consultant at McKinsey and Company, where she advised leading companies across industries ranging from technology and pharmaceuticals to industrial electronics to non-profits on core business issues related to strategy, growth and expansion, marketing, and sales. In 2010, Evgenia was approached by America for Bulgaria Foundation, which provided a generous start-up grant for the launch of Teach For Bulgaria and is still its major supporter, to return back to her country and take on the challenge to set up the organization. Evgenia is co-founder and president of the non-profit Step for Bulgaria Foundation, which has delivered life-skills education and professional development training to underprivileged Bulgarian youth since 2007.