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Nataliya Gumenyuk is a Ukrainian journalist and author specializing in conflict reporting and human rights. She is the founder and CEO of the Public Interest Journalism Lab (PIJL), which promotes constructive discussion around complex social issues. After the full-scale Russian invasion, under Gumenyuk’s leadership PIJL co-founded The Reckoning Project — an initiative to document war crimes. As a foreign news correspondent, she has reported from over 50 countries. Nataliya has written for Foreign Affairs, The Guardian, The Atlantic, Vanity Fair, The Rolling Stone, She provides commentary for CNN, BBC, Radio Monocle 24, etc. As a foreign news correspondent, Gumenyuk has reported from over 60 countries. She has been reporting on the invasion of Crimea since 2014, as well as on the conflict in Eastern Ukraine. Gumenyuk is the author of several documentaries and books, including The Lost Island: Tales From The Occupied Crimea (2020) and The Maidan Tahrir (2015) — on developments after the Arab Spring — as well as co-author of The Scariest Days of My Life: The Dispatches of The Reckoning Project (2023). Her forthcoming book The Drone Revolution. How Ukrainians Changed The Way Wars Are Fought is due to be published in winter 2027 by W. W. Norton & Co. Nataliya Gumenyuk was the co-founder and head of independent Ukrainian Hromadske TV and Hromadske International. She is also a board member of the Center for Civil Liberties. Gumenyuk is the recipient of the 2022 Media Freedom Award, 2022 NED Democracy Award, the 2023 Hanns Joachim Friedrichs Prize, and 2024 Reporters Without Borders Press Freedom Awards. In 2026 she received Order of Merit, III class, as the state recognition.
