Olga Rudenko, one of the Kyiv Independent’s co-founders, was featured on the cover of TIME Magazine’s May 2022 edition as one of its Next Generation Leaders. She is also a recipient of the December 2022 Women of Europe award for its “Woman in Action” category.

Daryna Shevchenko has a decade of experience in media management, training, and consulting. She is also a partner at Jnomics Media consultancy.

With nearly a decade of journalism experience, Toma Istomina was a staff writer at the Kyiv Post before becoming the paper’s lifestyle and features editor. She is one of the Kyiv Independent’s co-founders.

Lili Bivings has worked with the Peace Corps in Ukraine, the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center, the Kyiv Post, and Human Rights Watch. She has a graduate degree from Columbia University.

Oleksiy Sorokin, a co-founder of the Kyiv Independent, was on Forbes’ “30 Under 30" list in 2022. He was a political journalist at the Kyiv Post until 2021.

Zakhar Protsiuk is a co-founder and managing editor at The Fix Media, which focuses on the European publishing sector. He is an associate partner at Jnomics Media.

Tomáš Bella is a co-founder and the Chief Digital Officer of Denník N, an independent Slovak daily newspaper. Previously, he served as editor-in-chief of Slovakia’s most popular news site, sme.sk, and was the CEO of Piano, the world’s largest subscription software provider.

Francis Farrell is a winner of the Bayeux Calvados-Normandy Award’s “Young Reporter” category for war correspondents. He has reported from Ukraine’s front-line regions since the start of Russia’s full-scale war.

Danylo Mokryk’s investigation into the deliberate murders of Ukrainian children by Russian soldiers during Russia’s war in Ukraine was shortlisted for the Mezhyhirya Fest Investigative Journalism Award.

Masha Lavrova is a TikTok producer at the Kyiv Independent. She honed her digital marketing and PR skills while working in Australia and freelancing for various global companies. Masha also studied directing and producing for film and TV.

Brooke Manning has been the community manager at the Kyiv Independent since 2022 and has helped grow its membership from around 6,000 to over 12,000 members. She previously worked as a field organizer on the 2020 U.S. campaign trail and as a legislative intern in Congress.

Yerbolat Bekbau is the head of marketing at the Kyiv Independent. Before joining, he led marketing operations at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, working with more than 20 newsrooms across Central and South Asia, Eastern and Central Europe, and the Balkans.