Olga Shparaga

Olga Shparaga, born in 1974, studied philosophy at the Ruhr-University Bochum and at the Belarusian State University in Minsk. Between 2001 and 2014, she taught at the European Humanities University in Minsk (since 2005 from her exile in Vilnius). In 2014, she co-founded the European College of Liberal Arts in Belarus (ECLAB) in Minsk. She taught and carried out research in the Czech Republic, Poland, Lithuania, Germany and the USA. Olga Shparaga is a member of the feminist group within the Coordination Council, the political organ of the opposition against dictator Alexander Lukashenko.