Yuliia Nikandrova is head of the Children’s Affairs Service of the Odessa City Council. She graduated from the Odessa National Mechnikov University. In 2017, she studied in Harvard Kennedy School (program “Emerging leaders”). At the beginning of the war, she participated in the evacuation of orphans from orphanages in Odesa and the Odesa region to Poland. Married, she is a mother of two sons.