Larysa Didkovska is the rector of the Ukrainian Free University (UFU) in Munich and a psychotherapist who studies what Ukrainians are experiencing during the war and how...
Mila Shevchuk
Editor
I am a Kyiv native who is in love with the Ukrainian language and has been shaping and refining texts for 20 years. I am a member of the Association of Ukrainian Editors and have 10 years of experience in television, progressing from journalist to chief editor and lead scriptwriter for social projects and investigative crime series.
As a communications specialist, I collaborated with the Starenki charity fund, as well as the civic organizations Yedyni and the Association of Families of Kremlin Political Prisoners.
I am also the author of the Movonka blog, a Ukrainian language trainer for adults, and a moderator of international Ukrainian conversation clubs. After evacuating from occupied Bucha, I organized and led the longest-running daily volunteer language marathon of 2022, lasting over seven months. Due to the war, I had to relocate to Italy.
In 2024, I completed training with the International Centre for Development and Leadership and the Confidence Psychological Support Centre, becoming a facilitator for Ukrainian women’s support groups.
I keep the poetic essence of our project’s writing alive and share the stories of determined Ukrainians reshaping their lives and the world around them.
Publications of the author
Bohdan Bondarenko, a Kyiv native, fell in love with law back in high school. He enrolled in a financial-law lyceum and later in Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv ,...
Yaryna Grushа’s family comes from the Chornobyl region. Shortly after the disaster, her parents moved to her great-grandmother’s homeland. In the summer of 1986, just a few...
Olha Lyeskakova is originally from Lviv Oblast. She graduated from the Physics and Mathematics Faculty at KPI with a degree in mathematics. She spent twenty years working...
If you turn off the Vistula River promenade near Krakow’s Grunwald Bridge , you’ll find yourself on Józefa Dietla Street, named after a prominent physician and former...
Stas Voytenko is from Donetsk. He fell in love with music back in the eighth grade. He learned to play guitar, upgraded old Soviet speakers, and built his first rehearsal...
Originally from Odesa, Maksym Kovalenko spent ten years in Kyiv working with international companies across the tobacco, food, automotive, aviation, and banking sectors....
Tania Podakina is a stylist with over a decade of experience and the creator of the fashion blog What About Style on Telegram. She studied at the University of the Arts...
