Ms. Iryna Voloshyna is a Fulbright Scholar and a PhD Candidate at the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University Bloomington (USA).

She co-founded and headed the NGO “Podillya Traditions Revival” in her hometown Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine (2014-16), and also worked for the Folk Arts Program at the New York State Council for the Arts, the New York Folklore Society, the Ukrainian Museum in New York, and Traditional Arts Indiana (USA). Currently, she is a member of the Award Committee for prize for safeguarding of ICH of the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine.