Irena Chalupa recently moved to RFE's Washington Bureau as a Senior Correspondent following a 21-year career with RFE's Ukrainian Service, most recently as service director from 2007 to 2011. In addition to her involvement in all aspects of RFE's Ukrainian broadcast effort, she hosted daily live programs from Munich (1990-1995), Kyiv (1995-2000) and Prague (2001-2007), managed the creation and development of the editorial team supporting the Ukrainian Service's website radiosvoboda.ua, and helped develop RFE/RL's corporate journalism training program (2003-2005). Chalupa is a graduate of Montclair State University and the Ukrainian Free University.
2006 Osher fellow, Hoover Institute, Stanford University
1985 Goethe Institut, Munich, Germany, German language Kleinesprachdiplom
1981 BA. - Psychology/English, Montclair State University
Post Graduate Teaching Certificate
1981 Summer Abroad Program, Ukrainian Catholic University, Rome, Italy
1980 Pedagogical diploma, Ukrainian Free University, Munich, Germany