Evgenia Kara-Murza is the project manager of the Free Russia Foundation, a nonprofit, nonpartisan international organization supporting civil society and democratic development in Russia, and the wife of Russian opposition leader Vladimir Kara-Murza. She was born in Russia’s Far East, graduated with honors from the Moscow State Linguistic University, and worked as a translator and interpreter in Russian, English, and French for pro-democracy NGOs, including the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict, the Institute of Modern Russia, and Pen America, before joining her husband in advocating for human rights accountability and promoting civil society and democratic change in Russia.
