Oksana Forostyna

Oksana Forostyna is an influential Ukrainian intellectual, who experiences the war from up close in her hometown of Lviv. She is opinion editor at Ukraina Moderna, an international intellectual journal focused on the modern history of Ukraine and CentralEastern Europe, promoting critical thinking and freedom of thought. Forostyna is a fellow of the Europe’s Future — Ideas for Action research project at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. After her study in journalism, she worked as a journalist, reporter and editor for various newspapers, and between 2011 and 2015 as an editor for the journal Krytyka, which publishes essays and political reviews. In 2016, Forostyna co-founded Yakaboo Publishing, which she headed until 2019. Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Forostyna is involved in Ukraine! Unmuted as an editor of a collection of essays on Ukrainian culture.