Madeline is a first-year doctoral student studying mathematics at the University of Florida. She enjoys Algebraic Topology and Differential Geometry, as well as eastern European and Soviet history. Currently Madeline works as a Calculus 1 teaching assistant and is a volunteer member of the KGB lab, where she reads Soviet police files and looks at the accuracy of optical character recognition tools. In the future, Madeline is interested in using mathematically founded classification techniques to consider large-scale historical questions, such as how government policy affected everyday life in the Soviet Union.

Sabrina is a senior, and is triple majoring in Economics, Russian, and History. She is interested in topic of secret police files because she is writing an honors thesis using declassified NKVD documents, which are in Russian. This relates to the project, as she is a transcriber. 

Angelina is a third-year student, majoring in International Studies and Russian. She hopes to pursue a career with the United States federal government or a think tank. She is working at the KGB Lab to develop her Russian proficiency and to learn more about the Soviet secret police for application to her future career. Angelina joins the KGB Lab as an annotator and transcriber.

Madison is a first year Linguistics Master's student, specializing in First and Second Language Acquisition and Computational Linguistics. She is interested in analyzing linguistic trends of language used during secret police interrogations and how to improve organization and presentation of corpus data. 

Anna joins the KGB Lab as an annotator and transcriber.

Peter is a history undergraduate with projected minors in Russian and anthropology. The KGB lab has allowed him to continue learning about the association of Russia with neighboring countries under the USSR and the current Russian Federation. Having written a thirty-page thesis in high school on the Russo-Ukrainian War and now having been awarded membership to the Dobro Slovo Honors Society, he hopes to continue understanding the interaction of government and culture in Eastern Europe and Siberia, specifically through military culture and religious society. Peter would like to thank the Russian Nobility Association and the UF History Department for awarding him the Scherbatow and McGahan scholarships, respectively, to pursue these topics of interest.