Dena Popova is a PhD student in Reflective Communication at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, studying reconstruction of Bulgaria’s recent socialist past through narrative. She works as research associate at the Trust for Social Achievement and her work is mainly focused on participatory research practices, narrative research, empowerment evaluation approaches with organizations and communities of practice. Dena holds a MSc in Political Science: Multiculturalism and Nationalism from Pompeu Fabra University, Spain. Her Master thesis focused on Indigenous Politics of Empowerment in Ecuador and Bolivia. She completed her undergraduate studies in Rhetoric, Media and Politics at Whitman College, WA, USA, and worked on a final project that explored Postmemory construction through subjective documentaries in Argentina.