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Lesya Pishchevskaya

Lesya Pishchevskaya, from Ukraine, speaks at a rally in December near the Ukrainian consulate in San Francisco. Pishchevskaya, who works in the tech industry, is also part of MaydanSF, a local group supporting opposition-led protests back home.

First Days: For this Ukrainian, protests back home are a call to action in the US

March 14, 2014Global Politics

Meet Lesya Pishchevskaya. She’s from Kiev, arrived in California on August 5, 2005, and now works in Silicon Valley’s tech industry. And this is the story of her first days in the US.

Lesya Pishchevskaya, from Ukraine, speaks at a rally in December near the Ukrainian consulate in San Francisco. Pishchevskaya, who works in the tech industry, is also part of MaydanSF, a local group supporting opposition-led protests back home.

First Days: For this Ukrainian, protests back home are a call to action in the US

March 14, 2014Global Politics

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