Kateryna Yehorushkina

Kateryna Yehorushkina is a Ukrainian writer, an author of 17 published books. Member of PEN Ukraine, Ukrainian Art Therapy Association. Kateryna was a TED speaker. Her books are published in Great Britain, Lithuania, Georgia, Bulgaria, and other countries. Her book “My Forced Vacation” (about the Russian-Ukrainian war) entered TOP 5 “The book of the year BBC-2022” and “TOP BaraBooka”. Kateryna is also co-author of “Dictionary of War” (compiled by O. Slyvynsky).

Daria Slobodianyk is an editor and journalist with 16 years of experience in the media. Culture editor at Vogue Ukraine. Daria has contributed to international media, including Vanity Fair Italy, British Vogue, Vogue Poland. Mentor and teacher of the SheMedia School, initiated by UN Women and the Stockholm School of Economics.

Senior correspondent, France 24

Bohdana Neborak is a journalist, manager of cultural projects. Editor at The Ukrainians media. Having a Master of Arts in law, Bohdana has a 10-year experience in creative industries, working as a journalist, culture manager, and curator in Ukrainian and international projects. She co-hosts a video podcast about culture and decolonization Currently Untitled which was recognized as the best podcast about culture in 2022.

Ukrainian philosopher, writer, and journalist. President of PEN Ukraine.

Svitlana Taratorina is a writer, PR specialist. The author of the fantastic novel “Lazarus”, the artistic biography for children about Maria Prymachenko “Mary Drew Animals”, the comic book “Sounds of the World”, and the post-apocalyptic novel based on the mythology and history of Crimea, “The House of Salt”. Svitlana Taratorina is the winner of the “LitAccent of the Year 2018” award and The CHRYSALIS AWARDS from the European Science Fiction Society.

A teacher of math and computer science at Brovary Lyceum. Originally from the Chernihiv region. On March 25, 25-year-old Victoria Andrusha was abducted by Russians from her home. Victoria was kept in the Kursk SIZO incommunicado, her lawyers were not allowed to visit her, and it was not confirmed that she was really there. She was imprisoned for six months. On September 29, Victoria was released. Upon her return from Russian captivity, she was awarded the Order of the People’s Hero of Ukraine.

In 2014, she worked as a safety engineer in Novoazovsk, Donetsk Oblast. At the beginning of the war, she helped to resettle the IDPs. At the end of the summer of 2014, her city was occupied. Liudmyla helped the orphanage in Prymorske: she brought shoes and clothes, as well as Ukrainian books, to the children from the orphanage in the government-controlled territory of Ukraine. In 2019, she was arrested. Lyudmyla was held in prison for 3 years. Now she defends the rights of other women.

A doctor, captain of the Medical Service of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a participant of the Russian-Ukrainian war. She served in Mariupol from the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion. There she hid in the Ilyich Iron and Steel Works and saved the lives of others. Even before her capture, Maryana informed her family that she was pregnant. On April 4, she was held captive by the Russian occupiers in Olenivka. On September 21, Maryana was released from captivity.

She received her Master’s degree in journalism from the Institute of Journalism at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. She started working in radio in 2006. She joined the Hromadske Radio team in the summer of 2014. Currently, she hosts a number of programs, including the project “Free Our Relatives”, which tells the stories of people, cities, villages, and entire regions that have been captured by the Russian occupiers.