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Adrianna Watson

Adrianna Watson was born in 1997.  She is a college student majoring in Law, is a second generation Ukrainian immigrant who was born in Johnson City. She lives in the southern tier of New York with her large, extended family. 

Anastasiya Lyubas

Anastasiya Lyubas is a PhD candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature at Binghamton University. She is originally from Lviv, Western Ukraine. After graduation, she wants to teach in Europe.

Ann B. Czebiniak

Ann B. Czebiniak is a first generation Ukrainian American who was born in Johnson City, NY, and worked for IBM. She is not married but has a large extended family.She is a member of Ukrainian Catholic Church and resides in the Southern Tier with her family.

Anna Lewkowicz

Anna Lewkowicz was born in Ukraine. She first went to Germany where she worked in a forced labor camp for five years. Her sister, who was in the United States, obtained the proper papers to have her come to the United States. She is married, has two children and lives in the Southern Tier with her family.

David Sanyshyn

David Sanyshyn was born in 1950, is a retired engineer and is a third generation Ukrainian immigrant who was born in the Binghamton area. He is a Vietnam War veteran, having served two terms in the Navy, and is active in the Ukrainian Catholic Church. He met his wife, a second generation Ukrainian, in the United States. They have 3 children together, and 4 grandchildren and reside in Binghamton.

Dennis A. Kalashnik

Dennis A. Kalashnik is Russian-Ukrainian Immigrant and business owner.  He was born in Krasnodar Krai, Russia and came to the States in 1991 when he was four years old.  Both of his parents are Ukrainian. He is married and resides in Endwell.

Geraldine Czebiniak

Geraldine Czebiniak is a Ukrainian immigrant who left the Ukraine at age seven during the Second World War. She went with her family to Germany to stay in a camp for displaced people. She migrated to the the United States when she was 13 years old. She is a member of Sacred Hearth Orthodox Church and resides in Binghamton with her family.

Irina Kirichuk

Irina Kirichuk was born in Kurganinsk, Russia and moved to the Ukraine when she was three. She is of Russian, Ukrainian, and Armenian ancestry.  She is hearing impaired.  She came to the United States in 1993, works as a hairstylist, and lives with her family in Binghamton.

Ivan Synevsky

Father Ivan Synevsky was born in Western Ukraine region in 1982. He lived in the Ukraine until 2001, when he moved to Canada. He lived in Canada for six years, then got married in the United States, in 2007.He attended Holy Cross Greek Theological School in Boston from 2008 to 2010. Then was ordained in 2010 in Rhode Island. He had a parish in New Jersey for two years and in 2012 I was transferred to the local parish. He is married with three children and resides in Johnson City.

Julia Kiosse

Born in 1975 in Moldova, Julia Kiosse was the daughter of a Russian native and a native Moldovan. She immigrated to the United States in 1998 with her daughter, but without her husband as he could not get the proper documents in time. She lived in a small apartment in Brooklyn for one year before she moved back to Moldova to be with her husband. She moved with her family to the United States in 2000 and settled in Brooklyn.