Yana Gorokhovskaia

Yana leads the Research and Analysis team at Freedom House. She’s the author of over a dozen research reports, and her analysis has been published in Foreign Affairs, The Guardian, Time Magazine, The Washington Post, Politico, and the Journal of Democracy, among others. She’s worked on the issue of transnational repression since 2021, focusing on documenting the experience of targeted individuals and communities as well as maintaining Freedom House’s best-in-class database of physical incidents . Prior to joining Freedom House, Yana was a post-doctoral fellow at Columbia University. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of British Columbia.