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Writers

Writer Description

Alexandra St John Murphy

Alexandra St John Murphy is a Minsk-based political analyst on Eastern Europe. She is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Minsk Dialogue Council on International Relations and her writing has been published by The Jamestown Foundation in the U.S. and the Royal United Services Institute in the U.K. Follow her on Twitter @SashaStJMurphy

Hanna Liubakova

Hanna Liubakova is a freelance journalist and researcher from Belarus. She is a non-resident Atlantic Council fellow and works as a journalism trainer and mentor with Transitions Online Solutions Journalism Programme in CEE. Follow her on Twitter @HannaLiubakova.

Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon

Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon is a doctoral candidate in the History Department at the University of Pennsylvania. In her research she focuses on Black experience, race, ethnicity, and nationality policy in the Soviet Union and post-Soviet space. Her writing has been published by Foreign Policy, the Kennan Institute’s Russia File, The Moscow Times, and Contingent Magazine. Follow her on Twitter @ksvarnon.

 

Tessa Fox

Tessa Fox is a freelance journalist, photographer and filmmaker who focuses on war & conflict, humanitarian affairs, and human rights in the Middle East. Originally from Australia, Tessa is currently based in Istanbul, where she reports on Turkey, Syria and Iraq. Her work has been published by Foreign Policy, The Guardian, BBC and Al Jazeera. Follow her on Twitter @Tessa_Fox.

Lina Srivastava

Lina Srivastava is the founder of the Center for Transformational Change, a global impact platform that cultivates the narrative power of communities to build just futures. She tweets @lksriv.

Rachel Pafe

Rachel Pafe is a writer and researcher based in Berlin interested in postwar Jewish thought, interdisciplinary theories of mourning, and feminist approaches to reading together.

Diana Bruk

Diana Bruk is a Russian-American journalist living in New York, who has written for The New York Times, The Paris Review, Cosmopolitan, Esquire and Elle, amongst other publications. You can see more of her work on her website, or follow her on Twitter @BrukDiana.

Jillian C. York

Jillian C. York is a writer and activist whose work lies at the intersection of technology and society. She currently serves as the Director for International Freedom of Expression at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and on the Council of IFEX. This piece does not necessarily reflect the views of her employer(s).

M. Shadee Malaklou

M. Shadee Malaklou received her PhD in Culture and Theory and graduate certificates in Critical Theory and Gender and Sexuality Studies from the University of California, Irvine. Her research suggests that the exclusion of black people from human recognition is what produces gender and sexuality as human categories of difference. She is currently Chair and Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Berea College in Eastern Kentucky and the Founder and Inaugural Director of the bell hooks center. She is also visiting faculty in the Centre for Expanded Poetics at Concordia University in Montreal.

Stav Dimitropoulos

Stav Dimitropoulos’s features have appeared in major outlets such as the BBC, Scientific American, Nature, Popular Mechanics, Experience, Fortune, Shondaland, Runner’s World, and One Zero. She was previously a columnist at Womankind Magazine. Follow her on Twitter @TheyCallMeStav.

Ilana Sichel

Ilana Sichel’s writing has been published in a variety of outlets, including Prairie Schooner, Narrative, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and Haaretz. She is currently working toward a doctorate in clinical psychology. Follow her on Twitter @ilanasichel.

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