Oksana Mamchenkova

She was born on July 1, 1987, in Kyiv.

She received a bachelor's degree in cultural studies from the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (Kyiv, 2010) and a master's degree in journalism from the School of Journalism of the Ukrainian Catholic University (Lviv, 2017).

Since 2008, she has worked as a journalist, editor in print and online media, specializing in the topic of culture, from time to time entering the territory of sociopolitical and international journalism. As a staff author or freelancer, she collaborated with the magazines "Correspondent" (before the Revolution of Dignity) and "NV", the websites "Ukrainian Pravda", LB, Platforma, etc.

Since 2019, she has focused on the management of cultural projects. In particular, she was the curator of several PEN Ukraine projects ("PEN discussion club", "Dialogues On War", series of essays "What will strengthen us" and "Culture on standby"). She coordinated the Gongadze Prize and curated a number of projects and initiatives of the Prize ("Here-and-Now: Stories of Journalists at War", "Journalism of Independent Ukraine: A First-Person Story", "The Price of the Word", GOngadze Prize MediaDay conference, Requiem, "30 to 30: Who creates the future of Ukrainian media" and others).

She coordinates the project The Europe-Ukraine Desk, initiated by German NGO n-ost and designed to strengthen the voices of Ukrainian journalists in the media of EU countries.