Valerii Pekar

Entrepreneur since 1992. Lecturer at Kyiv-Mohyla Business School, Ukrainian Catholic University (including Lviv Business School, School of Public Management, etc.), the Open University of Maidan, and Ukrainian Academy of Leadership. Author of 4 books. Co-founder of The New Country civic platform. Member of the National Reforms Council (2014–2016).

Communication manager of the Dovzhenko Centre since December 2021. Previously, he worked on the Twitter page of the Takflix online cinema, and popularized Ukrainian cinema in his own microblog.

Writer, attorney at law.

Born in 1978. Specialist with higher education (Kharkiv State Academy of Culture). Specialty – bibliographer, librarian-bibliographer. Sliozka has been working in the library field for 22 years. Since 2023, she is director’s assistant of the Chernihiv City Central Library named after M.M. Kotsubynsky.

Hanna Pushkar lives in Chernihiv, and has two higher educations: pedagogical and economic. She is the director of Chernihiv city communal centralized library system since September 2022. Before that, she was well-known business woman, organizer, public figure in Chernihiv, the founder of the network of children’s centres. She is a member of public organizations, and has implemented successful grant programs. She is an organizer of city children’s events; has awards of All-Ukrainian and local level.

Doctor of Science in Philosophy, Professor of the Department of Theoretical and Practical Philosophy of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, editor-in-chief of the scientific journal “Philosophy of Education”.

Kobzin was engaged in research and advocacy of human rights.

Co-founder and creative director at Kultura Studio (Kyiv, Ukraine), visual communications designer, book designer. Awards and publications: Red Dot Award, European Design Awards, Ukrainian Design: The very Best Of, Communication Arts Design Competition, The Best Book Design, Slanted Magazine, Telegraf Design.

Chornohuz graduated from the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (master’s degree in philology), and worked as an English book translator. Since 2019, she has been a paramedic of the Hospitallers volunteer medical battalion. In 2020, she signed a contract with the Marines of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Since then, she is a platoon combat medic and drone pilot in the 140th separate reconnaissance battalion of the Marines. Yaryna was awarded with the medals “For saving life” and “For military service to Ukraine”. The author of two poetry collections.

Born in 1991 in Kyiv, Olena is a paramedic at the Hospitallers volunteer medical battalion. Winner of Top 30 Under 30 (Kyiv Post), nominee for the Shevchenko Prize (2021).