Tatyana Margolin

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Tatyana Margolin (@TaMa_Le) is a founding partner of STROIKA, Inc., a social justice consultancy which supports donors and activists in building a globally connected, intersectional anti-authoritarian movement. Recently, Margolin was regional director for the Open Society Eurasia Program and oversaw all aspects of the program, providing leadership on strategy, management, governance, and budget. In this capacity, she supported activists in some of the most complex, challenging environments for civil society.

Margolin was previously a division director for the Eurasia Program, leading the program’s work on responding to the reactionary backlash and closing civic space in the Eurasia region.

Prior to joining the Eurasia Program, Margolin was a program officer for the Open Society Public Health Program, where she developed innovative approaches to integration of legal aid and harm reduction initiatives, and published and spoke widely on issues of access to justice for the most marginalized groups. An attorney by training, Margolin was previously a foreign law clerk at the Supreme Court of Israel and a staff attorney at the Women’s Law Project, a nonprofit legal advocacy organization committed to fighting discrimination against women.

Margolin holds a JD from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, and an LLM in human rights law from the University of Nottingham School of Law in England.