Denysenko Larysa

Denysenko Larysa

Member of the Executive Board

Born on 17 June 1973, Larysa is a Ukrainian prose writer, lawyer, public activist, host of live and author’s programs on Hromadske Radio.

She is a public human rights activist and feminist, supporting and representing campaigns against discrimination. Larysa is the UN Goodwill Ambassador for Tolerance in Ukraine.

Ambassador of the International Film Festival Children KinoFest – 2018.

Larysa curates projects providing pro bono legal aid and develops projects addressing education in human rights for children and teachers.

In the course of the few years, along with Iryna Slavinska, she had been curating Lviv Publishers’ Forum special project Woman in the Topic.

Author of an innovative concept for teaching law with the help of author’s fairy-tales, project Lawprimer. Editor-in-chief of the ABC in Law, a human rights magazine for young adults.

Larysa mastered the Ukrainian language at the age of 23 when she started working at the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine. She graduated from Department of Law at the Kyiv Taras Shevchenko National University, lawmaking course at the Ministry of Justice of the Netherlands.

She writes columns, short stories and essays for magazines (Zhensky Zhurnal, Elle Ukraine, Harper’s Bazaar Ukraine, Domashny Ochag. Ukraina, etc.) as well as for business weeklies (Novoye Vremya, Profile, Ukrainska Pravda, Deutsche Welle, etc.).

She was an author and host of the culturological program Document on the 1+1 TV channel for five years.

Larysa Denysenko was awarded with Ukraine’s Supreme Court medal for Fidelity to Law.

Member of the Executive Board of PEN Ukraine.

Lives in Kyiv.

Author's publications on the PEN website: