Cholpon leads Central Asian Youth for Water (CAY4W) in her role of regional co-coordinator for Central Asia and Afghanistan. Currently, as an International Climate Protection fellow of Alexander von Humboldt Foundation she is carrying out her research on the interface of water, climate, and security in Central Asia with a special focus on collective leadership, supported by her host institution - CLI.
Through a journey of around 5 years across different sectors (state, civil society, academia) and between various levels (national to global), she got well-acquainted with climate and water governance topics, and for more than a decade now she has been involved in youth empowerment in Kyrgyzstan and beyond. With her team she organized a number of youth empowerment activities in water and climate: First Chu-Talas Youth River Basin Dialogue 2020; 2nd Syrdarya Youth River Basin Dialogue 2022; First Youth Climate Change Forum in Kyrgyzstan in 2019; and first LCOY Kyrgyzstan 2021; served as COY16 country coordinator. Cholpon holds an MA degree in “Politics and Security - Central Asia” from OSCE Academy in Bishkek.