Shawn Turner is the general manager and director of broadcasting at WKAR Public Media and a professor of strategic communication at Michigan State University. His prior positions include deputy White House press secretary for national security, director of communications for national intelligence at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and deputy press secretary for foreign affairs for the National Security Council (NSC).
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Yuliia Korotia is the office manager at GMF’s Warsaw office. She is a graduate of the University of Warsaw, holding a master’s degree with honors in international relations.
Her areas of expertise include Eastern Europe–US relations as well as the situation in Ukraine, with a focus on reconstruction, domestic politics, and disinformation resilience. Within the Transatlantic Security program, Korotia is involved in research and event organization promoting cooperation with Ukraine. She also provides insights into its domestic political landscape.
Prior to joining GMF, Korotia honed her skills in operations management and event coordination in the business sector. She also gained programmatic experience at the Polish Ministry of Environment.
Korotia is fluent in Polish, English, Ukrainian, and Russian, and has a basic command of German.
Magdalena Burakowska is a former Office Manager at GMF.
Mikolaj Bronert is a former Program Assistant at GMF.
Michelle Hermes is a former Program Assistant at GMF.
Louis Savoia is a program coordinator for the Alliance for Securing Democracy at GMF, where he serves as the lead author of the program's weekly newsletter, the Securing Democracy Dispatch.
Savoia holds a bachelor’s degree in international relations from American University’s School of International Service. His studies focused on the EU and NATO, US foreign policy, and democratic governance. His capstone project investigated patterns of hostage-taking by US adversaries, and he was among a team that presented their research to the White House special presidential envoy for hostage affairs. He spent a semester studying European affairs in Brussels.
Krystyna (Krysia) Sikora is a research analyst for the Alliance for Securing Democracy (ASD) at GMF. She supports research on election integrity and information manipulation. Her writing has been published in the EU Observer, Euractiv, and the Fulcrum. Prior to joining ASD, she played professional soccer in Poland for two years.
Sikora holds a master’s degree in Eurasian, Russian, and East European studies from Georgetown University. Her studies there centered on right-wing populism, disinformation, and democratic decline in Central and Eastern Europe, with a focus on Poland. She also holds a bachelor’s degree in political science and a certificate in policy journalism and media studies from Duke University.
Claire Rosenson is a senior editor at GMF. She previously worked as a contract editor at the Ukrainian Research Center at Harvard University and, for 17 years, at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum as an associate editor for the museum’s scholarly journal, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, and as the special projects editor for co-published monographs.
Rosenson’s other professional experience includes serving as an editorial assistant for the journal Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry and as a freelance translator for Warsaw’s Museum of Jewish Life, the Polish Association of Jewish Communities, and the University of Michigan’s Frankel Center for Judaic Studies. She has translated scholarly articles from Polish and Russian into English, and has knowledge of Ukrainian, French, German, and Yiddish.
Rosenson holds a PhD in political science from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, a master’s degree in Russian area studies from Georgetown University, and a bachelor’s degree in Russian language and literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.