Bozhena was born in Kherson, but she lived almost all of her life in small Nikopol, where she realized how important freedom was to her. Kyiv became the space for this person, where she moved to study in 2019. The decision to choose English philology seemed to her the best, because it gave her time to understand and find herself and at the same time learn the language at a sufficiently good level. I took an active part in the first year of study at the university, literally enjoyed the first events. I first found my community in 2021, when I moved to Vilnyy, it was he who gave me the impetus for an active social life. And so, when I saw recruitment for the Leadership Program in 2022, I couldn’t pass by and was pleasantly surprised by the concentration of cool people and information.

‘USF is something you have to try, even the circumstances will tell you that.’