Upon returning to Serbia in 2002, she coordinated cooperation between local and international stakeholders such as international organizations, foreign investors, local self-governments and public sectors in Serbia, and her employers were mostly US consultancy firms which executed programs financed by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) in Serbia. She worked briefly as an advisor to presidential candidate Miroljub Labus during his campaign of 2002, and also advised the director of the Coordination body for Presevo, Medvedja and Bujanovac of the Serbian government from 2007 to 2010 about cooperation with United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and other international organizations and foreign governments, including European Union delegation, German and British embassies and others.
