Tatiana Yankelevich (USA)

Tatiana Yankelevich is an independent researcher affiliated with the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University. She was born in Russia, received her education in Moscow, and graduated from Moscow University in 1975 with MA in Russian Literature. Ms. Yankelevich immigrated to the US in 1977 as a result of direct pressure by the KGB on her stepfather Andrei Sakharov and on her immediate family, in an effort to stop their human rights work. During the 1970s and 1980s, Ms. Yankelevich campaigned extensively on behalf of Andrei Sakharov, and for his causes in the US and Europe.
From 1993 to 2004, she was assistant director of the Andrei Sakharov Archives at Brandeis University. Later she was Director of Sakharov Program on Human Rights at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University, now the home of the Andrei Sakharov Archive.