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 and Transatlantic Security program coordinator at GMF’s Warsaw office. Her expertise covers Eastern Europe-US relations and Ukrainian politics and security, with a focus on reconstruction and disinformation resilience. She contributes to work on Polish-Ukrainian relations by conducting research and organizing events aimed at strengthening bilateral cooperation.
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 holds a master’s degree with honors in international relations. She speaks fluent Polish, 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 former Program Coordinator, Alliance for Securing Democracy at GMF.
Krystyna Sikora is a former Research Analyst, Alliance for Securing Democracy at GMF.
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.