Justin is a fresh and motivated USF activist who joined the organization this year. His whole life is connected to Kharkiv. He grew up there, graduated from school in 2019, and is currently a third-year student at V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University studying at the School of Law. During the time at the University, he took part in more than ten different educational (and other) events, projects, courses and internships in different parts of Ukraine. The brightest experiences he had were: in 2019-2020 – successful completion of the course “Critical Thinking and Advocacy in a Free Society”, which was taught by American and Canadian professors, lawyers, prosecutors and judges, as well as participation in a complete Moot-Court resulting in the Internship 2020 conducted by The Leavitt Institute For International Development (TLI); in 2020-2021 – participation in the IX and X Summer Schools “Rule of Law and Constitutionalism” involving judges of the Constitutional and Supreme Courts of Ukraine, the European Court of Human Rights, as well as other prominent pundits of the Ukrainian jurisprudence. Equally valuable for him was his participation in the Leadership Program 2021, by virtue of which he got acquainted with the organization as a whole.
Now, Justin, besides his activism in the USF, is an active member of the European Youth Parliament Ukraine, GR-Manager of the Students League of the Ukrainian Bar Association – Kharkiv Branch, a player of the professional basketball team “Kharkivski Sokoly-Universbasket”, and author of several scientific works on philosophy and law.

«USF for me is, foremostly, a platform of consciousness. All the Ukrainian citizens, as well as citizens of many other modern democratic and social countries, are granted with a myriad of rights and privileges. However, the majority of them forget that the price of possessing these rights is carrying respective responsibilities. Indeed, from my point of view, one of the elements of genuine freedom is inventiveness and going beyond ONLY past a complete study, comprehension and perception of rights and responsibilities (or other fundamental opposites) in their entirety. By coordinating this process, focusing primarily on youth and valuable learning, Ukrainian Students for Freedom are gaining their widespread recognition.»