Decolonising Western Coverage of Ukraine

Terrell Jermaine Starr is a non-resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center and the senior reporter at The Root, where he writes about US-Russia politics and race in America. Previously, he worked at Foxtrot Alpha, a blog that focuses on military, technology, and policy. In 2016, he was FUSION’s national political correspondent covering the 2016 presidential campaign. He lived in Ukraine as a Fulbright fellow and a freelance journalist, and Georgia as a Peace Corps volunteer. Starr has more than four years of experience living in the former Soviet Union, in addition to visiting Ukraine at least three months each year since 2016. In 2018, Diversity in National Security Network and New America selected him as one of the top African-American experts in foreign policy and national security. Starr is also a 2018-2020 Global Strategist Association fellow, a fellowship that aims to place Black people in foreign policy discussions and positions of power. He is the founder and host of Black Diplomats, a weekly foreign policy podcast that explores the world via travel, politics, culture, and news from a Black perspective. He regularly appears on In The Thick Podcast and The Young Turks, where he provides analysis on Eastern European and US politics.

Sasha Dovzhyk is the curator of UKRAINE LAB and editor of the London Ukrainian Review. She has gained a PhD in English and Comparative Literature from Birkbeck, taught in academia and beyond, and published in peer-reviewed journals such as British Art Studies and Modernist Cultures. As a research fellow, she is affiliated with Birkbeck and Goldsmiths, University of London. Sasha has also written for non-academic publications, including The Ecologist, Hong Kong Review of Books, and Los Angeles Review of Books, on topics as diverse as the legacies of Chornobyl, food waste, and transnational decadent aesthetics. She has built and keeps running the Aubrey Beardsley Society.