Kateryna Leontyeva took the role of promoting variability of educational opportunities and distance education in Ukraine in February 2014, after her daughter’s school in Crimea suffered from the annexation. Within several months Kateryna launched distance education in a number of Ukrainian schools making Ukrainian education available for those in the occupied Crimea, Donetsk and Luhansk regions. Eight years later, on February 24th 2022, Kateryna woke up from the missile attack in her home in Kharkiv and decided to leave. After a 52 hour trip she came to Poland as a refugee with her teen daughter, their pet rat and a backpack, with no plans or contacts. Kateryna received help from random people, who truly became her new Polish family. As of day one in Warsaw Kateryna started volunteering with a number of organizations. After several months of volunteering as an interviewer at Rafal Lemkin Centre for Documenting Russian Crimes in Ukraine, Kateryna became a coordinator of the Centre, specializing in video and audio evidence. Kateryna uses her vast corporate background and project management skills to implement the best practices for launching and promoting the Centre’s archive with the evidence of russian war crimes in Ukraine. Kateryna’s purpose in this work is making sure the world doesn’t “get tired” of the war and continues to fight russian aggression as one. Kateryna’s dream is to show beautiful, victorious Ukraine to her new Polish family.
