About the founders of the organization

VIKTORIIA HUMENIUK

The head of the organization

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

• 07.2022-present – Information support of the EUAA organization (European Union Agency for Asyum) – simultaneous interpretation for people fleeing the Russian invasion of Ukraine. ITM Srl Interpreti Traduttori Mediatori, Bucharest, Romania.
• 01.2021-06.2023 – Assistant, Lecturer at the Department of Slavic Philology and Journalism. Vernadsky Taurida National University, Kyiv, Ukraine.
• 08.2021-09.2022 – Leading specialist in publishing and printing production, specialist in public relations and press. Vernadsky Taurida National University, Kyiv, Ukraine.
• 02.2020-08.2021 – Specialist of the Dean’s Office of the Educational and Research Institute of Philology and Journalism. Vernadsky Taurida National University, Kyiv, Ukraine.
• 07.2017-10.2019 – Journalist, Executive Secretary. Ukraine Business Publishing House LLC, Kyiv, Ukraine.

EDUCATION:

• 2019-2021 Educational degree: Master’s degree. Specialty: Journalism.  Taurida National University, Kyiv, Ukraine.
•  2015-2019 Educational degree: Bachelor’s degree. Specialty: Journalism. Vinnytsia Mykhailo Kotsiubynskyi State Pedagogical University, Vinnytsia, Ukraine.

Volunteering and public activities:

2019/2021

Volunteer at the Equality March – a human rights march in support of equal rights for LGBT+ people, Kyiv, Ukraine.

2020-2021

Participant of the Women’s March – march in support of equal rights for women and ratification of the Istanbul Convention, Kyiv, Ukraine.

2019

Participant of Odesa Pride, Zaporizhzhia Pride (human rights march in support of equal rights for LGBT+ people), Odesa, Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine.

SVITLANA KUZMINA

Co-founder, Doctor of Philosophy, Associate Professor

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

• 2023- present Volodymyr Dahl East Ukrainian National University (Kyiv). Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social sciences.
• 2017—2023 – Vernadsky Taurida National University (Kyiv). Director of the Educational and Research Institute of Philology and Journalism. Professor of the Department of Foreign Philology. Courses: “Fundamentals of Pedagogy and Linguodidactics”, “Methodology and Organization of Scientific Research”, special course “Philosophy of Education”.
• 2013-2016 – project “Kyiv Theological Academy in Names. 1819-1921” (encyclopedic bibliographic dictionary), National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. Author of more than 180 articles, reports at international scientific conferences.
• 1994-2014 – Vernadsky Taurida National University. Assistant, Associate Professor, Professor of the Department of Pedagogy. Courses: “Pedagogy”, “Pedagogy and Psychology of Higher School”, “History of Pedagogy”, special course “Philosophy of Education and Upbringing in the Kyiv Academic Tradition of the XIX – early XX centuries”, etc.
• 2002-2014 – Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. Senior Research Fellow on the research topics “Philosophical and theological thought in the Kyiv Theological Academy in the early twentieth century” (state registration No. 0109U000442) and “Philosophy in the context of culture: history and modernity” (state registration No. 0110U001268). Author of scientific reports, articles, co-author of a collective monograph.
• 2000-2004, 2007-2013 – Crimean Engineering and Pedagogical University. Part-time as an associate professor of the Department of Pedagogy. Courses: Philosophy of Education, Methodology and Methods of Pedagogical Research, etc.
• 1986-1994 – teacher of history and social studies in schools of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. 

SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH:

Author of 2 monographs, more than 180 articles and reports on philosophy of education, history of philosophy, history, pedagogy.

EDUCATION:

• Doctor of Philosophy in the specialty “History of Philosophy” (2011). Doctoral studies at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine (2004-2007). 

Doctoral monograph “Philosophy of education and upbringing in the Kyiv academic tradition of the XIX – early XX centuries”.

• Candidate of Philosophy in the specialty “History of Philosophy” (2001). D. candidate at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine (1998-2000).

Dissertation, monograph “Philosophical and pedagogical concept of P. D. Yurkevych”.

• Historian, teacher of history and social science. Faculty of History of Simferopol State University. Specialization – archeology (1986).

IVAN CHEPAYKIN

Co-founder, editor, and journalist at Truthful Reporting

EDUCATION:

• 2022-2023 Master’s degree. Specialty: Journalism. Taras  Shevchenko National University, Kyiv, Ukraine.
• 2018-2022 Educational degree: Bachelor’s degree. Specialty: Journalism. Vernadsky Taurida National University, Kyiv, Ukraine.

Volunteering and public activities, participation in various programs:

2021

• Participant of the program for journalism students “School of Convergent Journalism”, Odesa, Ukraine
• Completed an internship at Ukrinform (Ukrainian online media) from Souspilnist Foundation, Kyiv, Ukraine.

2022

• July – December 2022 – worked as one of the coordinators of the War Diary grant project, received a grant from the Norwegian organisation Fritt Ord Foundation, and also published works as a journalist within the project

2023

• July – September 2023 – working as one of the coordinators of the grant project “Ukrainian Youth is changing the world” (the project received a grant from the Norwegian Fritt Ord Foundation), also working as a journalist, publishing my materials within this project
• July 2023 – to the present day – working as a journalist for the online publication “Behind the news”, creating materials on debunking fakes, manipulations and propaganda in the Ukrainian information space