Eli Malkovskiy is a first-year medical student at the University of Rochester and an editor and social media manager for Humanitarian Voices – a human-centered storytelling organization that elevates the voices of global community leaders, humanitarians, advocates, and changemakers who have uplifted people around the world. Humanitarian Voices was established in April 2022 by Harrison…
Shaughn Varnell came to Ukraine in April 2022, a few weeks into the full-scale invasion. First, he settled in Lviv, where he searched for volunteer opportunities and started learning Ukrainian. His Ukrainian tutor put him in touch with Rescue Now, a non-profit organization that was looking for volunteers in Kharkiv. Shaughn took the opportunity, moved…
David Kirichenko is a Ukrainian-American freelance journalist. Ever since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, David has volunteered to help Ukrainian refugees on the ground in Mexico, Romania, the United States, and Ukraine. Collaborating with Dobra Sprava, a Dnipro-based non-profit organization, David coordinates the procurement and delivery of essential supplies for Ukrainian troops on…
Joanna Cutts has studied at Warsaw University, Vienna University, and was a visiting scholar at Brown University. Her specialization is in the methodology of teaching, curriculum design, and testing. She is the founder of Cogitania, an organization that helps students develop their engagement with the sciences. I was born in Puck, Poland on the Baltic…
David Kirichenko is a Ukrainian-American freelance journalist. Ever since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, David has volunteered to help Ukrainian refugees on the ground in Mexico, Romania, the United States, and Ukraine. Collaborating with Dobra Sprava, a Dnipro-based non-profit organization, David coordinates the procurement and delivery of essential supplies for Ukrainian troops on…
by Britta Ellwanger, Ian Crookston, and John Vsetecka *** We want to write about Ukrainian volunteer war relief efforts but before we do so, it seems right to spend a moment on that one word. War. Every morning at 9 am Ukraine holds a moment of silence for the fallen. We, too, want to hold a…
Alexander A. Lupis, Ph.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist based in Washington, DC. He is also a moderator of the National Psychological Association (NPA) of Ukraine and a member of the Committee on International Relations at the American Psychological Association (APA). His volunteer work has focused on helping Ukraine’s National Psychological Association expand their work with support…
David Kirichenko is a freelance journalist and an editor at Euromaidan Press, an online English language media outlet in Ukraine. Ever since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, David has volunteered to help Ukrainian refugees on the ground in Mexico, Romania, the United States, and Ukraine. He volunteered with the Dnipro-based organization Dobra Sprava…
Hannah Scott is a Belfer Young Leader Fellow in her second year in the Harvard Kennedy School MPP (Master in Public Policy) program. She has been working with First Aid of the Soul since March 2022 as part of the founding team that worked to formally incorporate the charity. Since then, she has worked as the charity’s…
Ivan Shmatko is a PhD student in sociology at the University of Alberta (Canada). Ivan has been a part of the volunteer movement in Ukraine since February 24. He has done research on policing in Ukraine and the imaginaries that shape how police officers see their work and interact with others. His doctoral research project…
