Natalya Murakhver

Natalya Murakhver is the co-founder of Restore Childhood, a national nonprofit empowering parents to direct their children’s upbringing, education and health. 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 of prolonged restrictions placed on children. 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 to raise awareness of the effects of Covid-19 mitigations on children, and create a path to restoring normalcy. Restore Childhood is currently producing “15 Days…” a documentary about the pandemic school closures and has recently released a toolkit for parents on gender in schools “An URGENT Conversation” an Advocacy Toolkit about Children, Gender and School Policy.