Maria Borzenko received her first education in Moscow pedagogical institute and continued her professional development in multiple other facilities, contributing to international conferences and workshops. Being an intersectional feminist and an autistic, she spent most of her life working with inequality and oppressed groups: as an interpreter of ASL, as a tutor for orphans, as a volunteer in an AIDS community, special needs community, and teaching languages and humanities to children, teens and adults. Her special interests are feminism, autism, reading and writing. Currently, she is working on her Master’s degree in gender studies.