Julian Hayda
Julian Hayda currently works as a freelance journalist in the Ukraine. Most recently he served at the Global Cyber Alliance as the inaugural Craig Newmark Journalist Scholar as part of GCA’s Trustworthy Internet and Democracy Program where he helped shape the content and release of its Cybersecurity Toolkit for Journalists in the Fall of 2020.
Before his time at GCA, Hayda spent four years as a talk show producer at several NPR member stations, three of which were producing the flagship global-issues talk show on WBEZ Chicago, Worldview. At the onset of the 2013-2014 revolution in Ukraine, Hayda co-founded the Euromaidan Journalist Collective, which has since merged with the New York-based group Razom Think. In that capacity, Hayda co-led several fact-finding missions to cover different sides of the protest movement and ensuing war in Donbas, presenting at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, Fordham University, Stanford University, the DePaul University School of Law, as well as at other conferences around the United States.
Hayda’s work in the multimedia space has included directing a feature-length documentary titled Block Four: Chernobyl 2011 and producing news segments surrounding deposed Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych’s participation in the 2012 NATO Summit. He also participated in a research project on Romani music, culture, and human rights with the University of Pittsburgh in the Czech Republic, Poland, and Slovakia and completed a seminar in International Law with the DePaul University Law School at the University of Havana in Cuba. Hayda holds an M.A. degree in International Studies from DePaul University and a B.A. in Journalism and Digital Cinema Production, also from DePaul.
