Natalia Kokina

Biography

2025 – Present: Member of the “Holka” public initiative; Content Manager for the RechargeUA project.

Key Achievements:

  • Developed over 130 biographical profiles of People’s Deputies of Ukraine for the RechargeUA project.
  • Documented profiles for majoritarian MPs from the Kharkiv, Khmelnytskyi, Cherkasy, Chernihiv, Odesa, Vinnytsia, and Kirovohrad regions.
  • Compiled detailed profiles for party-list MPs from the “Batkivshchyna,” “European Solidarity,” and “Holos” parties.

Education

Kyiv National Linguistic University

  • Major: Psychology

Professional Training & Certifications

  • 2026: “Introduction to YouControl Tools for Journalists”
  • 2025–2026: Positive Psychotherapy – Basic Course (New Leaf – Institute of Psychotherapy and Coaching).
  • 2024: Online Workshop: “CBT in Action: From Classical Methods to Modern Approaches” (UpPro School).
  • 2024: Psychological Training: “Being Together: Preparing Youth for Marriage and Partnership” (Kyiv Youth Center).
  • 2024: Psychological Intensive: “Break the Circle” – providing assistance to military personnel in a state of stupor and effective communication with service members (Kyiv Youth Center).

Team

Halyna Chyzhyk

Author of the project “Reasonable Doubt”

Artem Lymanskyi

  • Compiling Profiles

Content Manager

Natalia Sokolenko

  • History of Ukraine
  • Judicial Reform

Сo-author of the “My Dear Kyiv” project

Serhii Kostianchuk

  • History of Kyiv

Сo-author of the “My Dear Kyiv” project

Vasyl Zhuk

  • Development of websites and web tools

Web Developer, Backend Architect

Lesia Liuba

  • Financial management
  • Accounting in NGO

Accountant

Kateryna Pokotylo

  • Translation, editing of texts
  • Language coaching

Language Mentor

Valeriia Sokotiuk

  • Brand promotion in social networks
  • Development of smm strategy

SMM-manager

Yurii Melnyk

Expertise:

  • Judicial reform
  • Defamation
  • Civil law
  • Administrative law

Analyst

Heorhyi Mohylnyi

Expertise:

  • Anti-corruption analysis
  • Urban planning reform
  • Cultural heritage protection
  • Specifics of local self-government bodies' work

Analyst

Olena Sokotiuk

Expertise

  • Project Management
  • Grant Writing
  • Local Self-Government

Executive Director

Margaryta Sytnyk

Expertise:

  • Communication strategies
  • Media partnership
  • Migration
  • Labor market abroad

Head of International Cooperation Projects

Iryna Fedoriv

Expertise:

  • Urban planning reform
  • Decentralization reform
  • Electoral reform
  • Specifics of local self-government bodies' work

Leader of “Holka” (“The Needle”)