Natalia Kovyliaeva

Coordinator, Reforum Space Tallinn

Natalia Kovyliaeva is a coordinator of Reforum Space Tallinn since January 2024. She is also a Ph.D. candidate at Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies, University of Tartu (Estonia). Her current dissertation project, titled "Gaining Voice: Feminist Grassroots Mobilizations in Putin's Russia," explores the emergence and development of the feminist grassroots movements and their tactics and strategies in Russia starting from the early 2000s.

Natalia holds an MA in Political Science from Central European University (Budapest, Hungary) and an MA in International Relations from the Higher School of Economics (Moscow, Russia). Natalia has been a volunteer and interned for such organizations as Sakharov Centre, Memorial, EU-Russia Civil Society Forum, and Transparency International - Russia.