Yegor Mostovshikov

Yegor explores how society, power, and tech shape & exploit our identities — the stories we tell ourselves (and kill for). His goal is to help people rewrite stories that control them. For over 20 years, he has been working at the nexus of journalism, media, narrative therapy, and technology. I'm mesmerized by how society shapes, weaponizes, and exploits our identities. And he synthesizes storytelling and narrative therapy into tools to reclaim control over our life stories and build meaningful connections. Yegor spent a significant portion of his career writing about polarization, the Russian government's crimes, reporting on social degradation, politics, street protests in Moscow, Kyiv, and Cairo, corruption, police violence, human rights abuses, and crimes against cultural heritage & art. He is a former Visiting Fellow at The Institute for Human Sciences (IWM), Vienna, with the Milena Jesenská Fellowship for Journalists and John Smith Trust alumnus. He is writing a book