Belarus

Nathaniel Myers is a visiting fellow within the Transatlantic Trusts at GMF, where his research focuses on foreign digital interference in democratic information spaces, democratic resilience, and exiled political movements. He brings over 15 years of experience integrating diplomacy, political analysis, and on-the-ground program management across multiple continents, with particular expertise in Eastern Europe.

Prior to joining GMF, Myers was a senior transition advisor and country representative at the US Agency for International Development, where he led and advised multimillion-dollar grant programs in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. He previously served as a policy advisor and speechwriter at the US Mission to the UN, as an international affairs fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and as a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. His writing on governance, democracy, and conflict issues has appeared in Foreign Policy, International New York Times, the Washington Post, and other outlets. He holds an MPA from Princeton University and a BA from Harvard University.

Larissa Doroshenko is an open-source intelligence analyst on the information manipulation team at the Alliance for Securing Democracy (ASD) at GMF. As an expert in state-sponsored disinformation, she detects and analyzes foreign information manipulation and interference using ASD tools and other computational methods.

Prior to joining the GMF, Doroshenko taught and conducted research at Northeastern University’s communication studies department and the Network Science Institute. Her projects explored the use of new media for disinformation campaigns and sought ways to mitigate their influence through early detection and grassroots activism. Her research into political campaigning and citizens’ online engagement in Ukraine appeared in leading academic journals and edited volumes.

Doroshenko holds a PhD in political communication from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a master’s degree in media and communications from Mid Sweden University, and a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Belarusian State University. In addition to English, she speaks fluent Belarusian, Russian, and Polish, and some French.

Maryna Rakhlei analyzes regional developments in Eastern Europe and is part of the team assisting civil society in Belarus. She studied in Minsk and in Berlin. Before joining GMF, Rakhlei covered foreign relations for the Belarusian newswire Belapan in Minsk, wrote for the German newswire DPA and blogged for EuObserver.