Iryna Vidanava is the founder and editor-in-chief of 34 Multimedia Magazine, an award-winning independent youth publication. She has been active in promoting civil society and independent media in Belarus for more than a decade. She has also served as International Coordinator for the Assembly of Pro-Democratic NGO’s, Belarus’ largest third sector umbrella organization, and held leadership positions at the Belarusian Student’s Association and Youth Information Center. An historian by training, she currently teaches a graduate course on public policy at the European Humanities University in Vilnius.