Anastasia Mishina is a curator of volunteering and internship programs and a manager of digital projects in culture. She holds an MA in Cultural Studies from the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE, Moscow). She has worked on the internship program at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art. In 2020, she co-curated the education program in mindful volunteering in museums Think. Act. Share (Cultural Managers’ Association).
Margarita Kuleva is a sociologist of culture, lecturer at the Sociology Department, HSE, head of Design and Contemporary Art Department, associated researcher at the Centre for German and European Studies at St. Petersburg State University and Bielefeld University; she collaborates with the Centre for Art, Design and Social Studies. In 2019, she became a Candidate of Sciences at HSE with a comparative study of the careers and professional identities of young cultural workers in visuals arts in Moscow, St. Petersburg, and London. Her research interests include the sociology of fashion, museum visitor studies, and youth cultures.
Darya Belkina is a Social Sciences student at HSE. She has been an intern in the fashion department at Harper’s Bazaar and Project Marketing and PR at InLiberty and DK Rassvet.
Lyuda Luchkova is an inclusive programs coordinator at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, a graduate of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (Political Science), and holds an MA in Russian Language as a Foreign Language in the Interaction of Languages and Cultures from HSE. She is a participant and organizer of conferences on inclusion, accessibility, diversity, and the study of sign languages; creator of socio-cultural projects on deafness and hearing impairment.
Nastya Tarasova is the head of collection at Garage Archive, coordinator of the project Russian Art Archive Network. She studied Art History at Moscow State University and is a winner of a number of awards, including DAAD (2008), Gerda Henkel Stiftung (2010), and IFA CCP (2020).
Asel Rashidova is a manager of inclusive programs for people with an experience of migration at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art. She is a New Media and Strategic Communication student at Moscow State Institute of International Relations.
