Khristina Lew

President

​Khristina Lew  is the founder and president of the Foundation to Preserve Ukraine's Sacral Arts.  She worked as a photojournalist covering Ukraine in the 1990s and currently is a technical writer for the International Finance Corporation in Washington, D.C. She has been awarded numerous grants from the U.S. government to conduct civic education programs in Ukraine, and has served as an international election observer in seven elections in that country. She is co-author of "100 Nahirny Churches:  the Churches of Vasyl Nahirny"  and "100 Nahirny Churches:  the Churches of Evhen Nahirny."  Khristina graduated from the College of the Holy Cross and was awarded a master of sciences degree in Global Affairs from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey.

Khristina Lew and her son, Greg Gawdiak, at a church designed by her great-grandfather, architect Vasyl Nahirny. Slavske, Ukraine.

Martha Jarosewich-Holder

Secretary

Martha Jarosewich-Holder works in international development at the World Bank in Washington, D.C. She has both resided and worked on several investment projects in Ukraine. A specialist in water resources management at the World Bank, she has been involved in ensuring due diligence and in-program design, identifying indicators and formulating results frameworks for quality assurance, and monitoring and evaluating program performance. Martha graduated from the University of Maryland and was awarded a master’s degree from the Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering at the Johns Hopkins University.
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Martha Jarosewich-Holder with students at FTPUSA's restoration project in Vovkiv, Ukraine.

Dr. Olenka Z. Pevny

Member at Large 

Dr. Olenka Z. Pevny is Associate Professor in Slavonic and Ukrainian Studies at the University of Cambridge in England. She is a fellow of Fitzwilliam College and Chair of the Cambridge Committee for Central and East European and Eurasian Studies. She studies the art and culture of Byzantium, Kyivan Rus’, Early Modern, Modern and Soviet
Ukraine. Her involvement in archaeological, conservation and preservation initiatives guides her interest on the ways in which scholars, theorists, politicians and cultural activists in the late Russian Empire, the Soviet Union and in contemporary Ukraine and Russia present and preserve the medieval and early modern past. Before arriving in Cambridge, Dr. Pevny was an Associate Professor of Byzantine and Medieval Art History and Chair of the Art and Art History Department at the University of Richmond in Virginia. She has worked at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, in a curatorial capacity on The Glory of Byzantium exhibition, and as an archaeologist in Crimea and Greece. Her publications include Perceptions of Byzantium and Its Neighbors, and articles on topics ranging from medieval female patronage, the built environment of medieval Rus’, notions of beauty in medieval Rus’, the early modern  restoration of Kyiv, the role of visual culture in ecumenism and confessionalisation, to Soviet and contemporary cultural restoration practices.
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Dr. Olenka Z. Pevny, in Stonehaven, Scotland.