Dora Chomiak (born 1969) is a Ukrainian-American nonprofit executive and civic leader. She has served as Chief Executive Officer of Razom for Ukraine since 2014, overseeing large-scale humanitarian aid, advocacy, and grantmaking initiatives to support UkraineâÂÂs sovereignty and civil society. Her work has been recognized by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy with the Order of Merit, Class III. Her initiatives have garnered coverage in major media including TIME magazine; and Princeton University alumni publications.
Dora Chomiak was born in 1969 in New York, NY, USA, to Ukrainian immigrant parents. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Public Policy from Princeton University in 1991. During her studies, she focused on Eastern European politics and emerging democratic institutions.
After graduation, Chomiak began her career in media development, co-founding a media incubator in Kyiv, Ukraine, aimed at establishing independent news outlets in the post-Soviet era. She later held senior editorial and product roles at McGraw-Hill and Thomson Reuters, where she managed global content strategy and digital initiatives.
In 2014, Chomiak began volunteering for Razom for Ukraine, a New YorkâÂÂbased nonprofit organization founded to deliver humanitarian aid and support grassroots civil society amid the conflict in Eastern Ukraine. She became CEO in 2023. As CEO, she has:
Chomiak has delivered keynote lectures on heritage, decolonization, and UkraineâÂÂs post-war reconstruction at institutions including Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute and Columbia UniversityâÂÂs Harriman Institute.