PhD in Journalism and M.A. in Psychology. She is a Junior Research Fellow at the Faculty of Journalism, Zaporizhzhia National University. From September 2024 to August 2025, she worked as a lecturer in the Department of International Journalism at Borys Grinchenko Kyiv Metropolitan University.
In 2024, she was a Fellow at the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia (WCEE) at the University of Michigan. She is the co-author of the monograph “Socio-Humanitarian Studies in Wartime: Postcolonial Modality and Transgenerational Potential” (Zaporizhzhia, 2025). She also authored the chapter “Making memory in time of war: new commemorations and decolonization of memory in Ukraine after February 2022” in the forthcoming volume War In Ukraine: Between Lived Experience And Public Discourse (Brill). Her chapter explores commemorative practices emerging after the full-scale invasion.
Born and raised in Melitopol, Kristina was an active participant in the 2022 protests against the city’s occupation. She is the Chair of the Board of the NGO “Buty” (To Be), which provides psychosocial and informational support to individuals experiencing loss and grief.
