Dialogue Advisors and Participants

• Ray Acheson, Director, Reaching Critical Will 

• Aida Akim-Escriva, Program Officer, Adolescent Girls’ Rights at Global Fund for Women  

• Nadezhda Azhgikhina, Journalist, Feminist, Director, Moscow PEN, Featured Speaker 

• Emma Claire Foley, Program Associate, Global Zero

• Melinda Davis, Junior Coordinator, Security Task Force, Vatican COVID-19 Commission

• Togzhan Kassenova, Senior Fellow, Center for Policy Research, SUNY-Albany, Featured Speaker

• Cynthia Lazaroff, Founder, Women Transforming Our Nuclear Legacy and Board Member, American Committee for US-Russia Accord, Moderator and Featured Speaker

• Sarah Lindemann-Komarova, Writer, Researcher and Activist 

• Eva Merkacheva, Investigative journalist, Member of Human Rights Council of Russia

• Lubov Shtyleva, Long-term President, Women’s Congress of Kola Peninsula and Board Member, Vyi i Myi Magazine

• Colette Shulman, Journalist & Public Speaker on the Soviet Union & Russia since 1956, Member, Council on Foreign Relations, Member, Advisory Commission for Europe and Central Asia, Human Rights Watch, Dialogue Advisor

• Jessica Sleight, Program Director, Global Zero

• Svetlana Svistunova, Journalist and Filmmaker

• Katrina vanden Heuvel, Editorial Director and Publisher, The Nation magazine, Board Member, American Committee for US-Russia Accord, Featured Speaker

• Olga Zdravomyslova, Executive Director, International Foundation for Socio-economic and Political Studies (Gorbachev-Foundation), Vice President, Raisa Gorbacheva Club, Editorial Board Member, Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal.

• Natalia Zhurina, Research and Education Officer, Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean