Daria Kasmamytova

Daria is a Junior Researcher in the Behavior Research Program at ISDC. She is a grassroots strategist and community-based researcher with more than a decade of experience in civil society leadership in Kyrgyzstan and Central Asia. Her commitment, practice and research focus on fostering sustainable and resilient futures in Kyrgyzstan and across Central Asia.

Previously she served as co-director of FemAgora, a Central Asian feminist organization of researchers, practitioners, artists and activists to celebrate, sustain and document women-led grassroots expertise and local solidarity economies.

Daria studied Economics at the European University Viadrina, Macroeconomic Planning and Forecasting at Kyrgyz-Russian Slavic University on a merit-based undergraduate scholarship funded by the Kyrgyz government, Economics at Kent State University as an alumna of the UGRAD program funded by the U.S. Department of State, and Gender Studies at the University of Oslo on a Norwegian government-funded scholarship.