Kateryna Stepanenko

Major: International Affairs, Russian
Minor: Italian
Concentration: Europe and Eurasia

Kateryna (Kat) was born and raised in Kyiv, Ukraine, and moved to New York in middle school. Fluent in Ukrainian, Russian, and English, she is interested in using her languages to research Russian disinformation warfare, and freedom of the press in the post-Soviet world. She has interned at the American Enterprise Institute’s Media Relations Department and is the Metro News staff writer for the GW Hatchet. As a hobby, Kat loves studying fashion merchandising, drawing, and talking about New York City.