Tatiana Mamonova

2009 marked the 30th Jubilee of her NGO and samizdat. Celebrations were launched in December 2008 at Corinthia Nevskij Palace Hotel, St. Petersburg where she was formally honored as Woman of the Year and on March 7, 2009, at the Contemporary Art Network Gallery in mid-town Manhattan, New York which also included an exhibition of her paintings. The tour campaign continued in other world venues throughout the year.

Her human rights case, which remains unresolved, was selected to be heard among the 10 finalists at the 17th International Human Rights Competition in Caen, France in January 2006.

Since her exile, in addition to continuing to edit and publish her Almanac nka Woman and Earth Almanac and two additional Woman and Earth publications: Succes d’estime (since 2001) and Fotoalbum: Around the World (since 2004), and to lead and expand her organization, now also called Woman and Earth Global Eco-Network, she has authored four books in the United States, as well as hundreds of articles and travelogues for journals, magazines and newspapers, including The New York Times, lectured in hundreds of universities and for public organizations in the United States and throughout the world including participating in a national lecture tour with Ms. Magazine, and tours of Africa, Australia, Japan, the United States, India, South America, Dominican Republic, Scandinavia, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy and Greece with support from Amnesty International, Alliance Français, Parliaments and labour and non-governmental organizations. She exhibited in more than 20 countries and sold her award-winning art, many times donating proceeds to benefit the activities of her NGO and human rights campaigns throughout the world. She is also Executive Producer of a weekly educational television series in Manhattan.

In 1987 Mamonova, became an associate of the Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press (WIFP). WIFP is an American nonprofit publishing organization. The organization works to increase communication between women and connect the public with forms of women-based media.

She contributed the piece "It's time we began with ourselves" to the 1984 anthology Sisterhood Is Global: The International Women's Movement Anthology, edited by Robin Morgan.

Mamonova was the first feminist dissident exiled from the Soviet Union in 1980 for re-igniting the Russian women's movement; initiating her organization, then called Woman and Russia, the first NGO promoting the human rights of women from the Soviet Union and connecting Russian speaking women's voices and needs with the international community; and editing and publishing the samizdat Woman and Russia Almanac, now called Woman and Earth Almanac, an art and literary journal containing the first collection of Soviet feminist writings, which has now been published in 11 languages and in over 22 countries. Prior to her exile from her native St. Petersburg, Russia, she was the first woman organizer and exhibitor in the non-conformist artist movement in Russia and a literary and television journalist with Aurora Publishers (working alongside Josef Brodsky) and Leningrad Television.

Tatyana Mamonova (born 10 December 1943), is a founder of the modern Russian women's movement, an internationally renowned democratic women's leader, author, poet, journalist, videographer, artist, editor and public lecturer.