I was one of the founders of BHC in 1992.I am a Member of the General Assembly and the Board of Bulgarian Helsinki Committee.I received my master's degree in Journalism and Mass Communicaton from Sofia University and have 15 years of experience as a correspondent of the Bulgarian service of Deutsche Welle (DW) Radio in Sofia.

As a senior researcher for children’s rights, have been involved since 2010 in the monitoring and analyzing of the process of the deinstitutionalization of children’s institutions: a country expert for the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) project – a collaboration among University of Gothenburg, Sweden and the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame, USA.

I am an author of the publication Children in institutions – Homes for Children with Special Needs; and co-author of publications: The Archipelago of the Forgotten - Social Care Homes for People with Mental Disorders in Bulgaria; and Metamorphosis of the homes for children aged 0 to 3 years, 2014. I am also the author of many articles in the press and radio broadcasts of the Bulgarian National Radio and Deutsche Welle on Human Rights of the vulnerable minority groups in Bulgaria. Have been awarded numerous prizes: prize of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID); German – Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce; Paniza Prize for Bulgarian Journalists. Also was nominated for the Robert Schuman Award, given by the European Commission. My radio documentaries are included in the Golden Fund of Bulgarian National Radio.