Anna Romandash is a multi-award-winning journalist and researcher from Ukraine. She has extensive experience working across Eastern Europe and Central Asia where she studies democratization processes, freedom movements, and human rights policymaking. Romandash has written substantially on Belarus and Russia’s dictatorships, Ukraine-EU relations, and Europe’s security architecture. Her areas of interest include international security and media development in fragile contexts. Romandash is the Fourth Freedom Forum’s first Howard S. Brembeck Fellow, a Research Affiliate at the Mgrublian Center for Human Rights at Claremont McKenna College, and a digital scholar at Vassar College. She holds an MGA degree from the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame, and a MA in Communications from Ukrainian Catholic University.