'The Kremlin Tried to Kill Me for Helping Ukraine'

Mitzi Perdue and Clara Kaluderovic, both prominent American businesswomen, entrepreneurs and philanthropists, have joined forces and established MentalHelp.Global to aid Ukrainians. MentalHelp.Global strives to make use of IT and AI to help those suffering from mental health issues, particularly war crimes victims in Russia’s war against Ukraine. Both women are staunch supporters of Ukraine’s struggle, and Mitzi Perdue even survived an assassination attempt for her efforts while returning from a recent trip to Kyiv. Undaunted, both women have doubled down on their commitment to the Ukrainian cause and spoke to Kyiv Post while visiting the capital for the annual YES (Yalta European Strategy) conference.

Mitzi Perdue is a businesswoman, philanthropist and writer, as well as stalwart advocate for the Ukrainian cause.
Her father co-founded and was President of the Sheraton Hotel chain, and her late husband, Frank Perdue, built his father-and-son chicken company into a company that today employees 21,000 people.
Mitzi’s professional career includes being a former rice grower and past presidency of the American Agri-Women. As a writer, in the 1990s, her nationally syndicated column, “The Environment and You,” was the most widely syndicated environmental column in the US.
She currently writes for the Association of Foreign Press Correspondents and for Psychology Today, plus her work has appeared in publications including the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Examiner, the Epoch Times, and USA Today.

Clara Kaluderovic is a serial entrepreneur and startup founder. She is currently the Co-Founder and CEO of ex2, which is a global technology conglomerate specializing in data annotation for AI algorithms and the COO of Infinity Data, a cloud computing and big data storage company.
Clara is of Ukrainian heritage, and her passion lies in leading and advising next generation technology companies that hold the potential for lasting economic and social impact.