Explaining the Holodomor to global audiences

Andrea Chalupa is a Brooklyn-based journalist, author, and filmmaker. As the host and producer of the Webby Award Honoree civic action podcast Gaslit Nation, she passionately addresses the threat of fascism globally. Andrea Chalupa is the writer-producer of the journalistic thriller Mr. Jones, directed by three-time Academy Award-nominee Agnieszka Holland and starring James Norton, Vanessa Kirby, and Peter Sarsgaard. Her books include the graphic novels In the Shadow of Stalin and Dictatorship: It’s Easier Than You Think. In 2014, she initiated #DigitalMaidan, a viral hashtag supporting the EuroMaidan revolution in Ukraine. Andrea Chalupa wrote and directed the short documentary The Holodomor: Stalin’s Secret Genocide, shown at the United Nations in 2016. Her frequent speaking engagements share inspiring insights into global affairs, US politics, and saving democracy. She has spoken at the Council of Europe, the National Press Club, the National Arts Club, a committee room at the House of Lords, and universities in the US, Canada, Europe, and the Middle East. Andrea Chalupa studied Soviet History at the University of California, and Ukrainian at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. Her commitment to human rights was inspired by her parents, born in European displaced persons camps after World War II. She delves into this personal history in her book, Orwell and The Refugees: The Untold Story of Animal Farm, revealing a ‘special gift’ from Orwell in her family.

Daria Mattingly is a lecturer in European history at the University of Chichester and an Affiliated Lecturer in Slavonic Studies at the University of Cambridge. She received her doctoral degree from the University of Cambridge, where she has been teaching Soviet and Russian history as a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow. Daria Mattingly completed her MA in History at the University of Bristol and in Philosophy at Kyiv Shevchenko University in Ukraine. After providing research assistance to Anne Applebaum for her book on the Holodomor, Daria Mattingly is currently finishing her monograph on the rank-and-file perpetrators of the famine. Her most recent academic publications include ‘Sexual Violence During Collectivization and the Holodomor’, in Women’s Dimensions of the Past: Perceptions, Experiences, Representations, ed. Oksana Kis (Lviv: Centre for Urban History, 2023) and ‘Stalinism and the Holodomor’, in Ukraine’s Many Faces: Land, People, and Culture Revisited, eds. Olena Palko and Manuel Férez Gil (Beilefeld: Transcript, 2023).