Katsiaryna Shmatsina is a policy analyst and PhD fellow at Virginia Tech University, specializing in Belarusian foreign policy and Eurasian security. She serves as a pro bono expert on Belarus for the World Bank’s “Women, Business, and the Law” report and is a board member of the Belarusian Organization of Working Women. Following the crackdown on Belarusian civil society, Katsiaryna was forced to flee Belarus and is now based in Washington, DC.
Women play diverse roles in and exert major influence on popular movements against democratic erosion around the world, from Brazil to Hungary to India.
