Margarita Korol is an artist and social innovator. Her Urban Pop Art Projects have taken the forms of exhibits, creative place-making, and art facilitation in New York and Chicago. She was a UN Foundation design fellow and Intel Artist In Residence and was honored by Helene E. Weinstein, New York State Representative with a Citation of Worth for her book and exhibition Spoils of War: Ode to a Refusenik Mother. She was the exhibition coordinator for Priya’s Shakti for Tribeca Film Festival. She has a BS in anthropology from Loyola.