Nataliya Gumenyuk

Nataliya Gumenyuk is a Ukrainian journalist and author specialising in conflict reporting and international security. She is the founder and CEO of the Public Interest Journalism Lab (PIJL), which promotes constructive discussion around complex social issues. Her writing regularly appears in the Atlantic, Foreign Affairs, Vanity Fair, and the Guardian, as well as The New York Times, the Washington Post, Prospect, New Lines Magazine, and the New Statesman. As a foreign news correspondent, she has reported from over 50 countries including Iraq, Iran,Syria, Egypt, Lebanon, Tunisia, Jordan, as well as Russia and Belarus. She has also covered every US presidential election campaign since 2008.

After the Russian invasion, she co-founded The Reckoning Project: Ukraine Testifies to document war crimes committed during the war. She was the co-founder and head of Hromadske TV, which became a go-to news source for the Ukrainian public during the 2014 Euromaidan Revolution, and of Hromadske International, and is currently a Board member. She is also the Trustee of Ukrainian History Global Initiative, and has received the NED Democracy Award (2022), the Media Freedom Award (2022), the Hanns Joachim Friedrichs Prize (2023), and the Reporters Without Borders Impact Prize (2024).