The Cave with Jared Julia sits down with Natalya Murakhver

Natalya Murakhver has long been a tireless advocate for children’s health and well-being. In 2018 she produced the NYU Exposome and Family Health panel and partnered with the New York City Healthy School Food Alliance to improve school food for New York City's public school children. In 2020, she helped organize #KeepNYCSchoolsOpen, and brought a lawsuit against NYC to reopen public schools in person with teachers in classrooms.

In 2021, she founded the #MaskLikeAKid campaign to raise awareness to the prolonged restrictions placed on children in the name of safety. In January 2022 she worked with an international team of scientists and pediatric, infectious disease, emergency, and ICU doctors to launch the Urgency of Normal Toolkit to raise awareness of the effects of Covid19 mitigations on children, and create a path to restoring normalcy. She holds a Masters in Food Studies from NYU.

Follow her on Twitter @AppletoZucchini