Siobhan Heekin-Canedy is a writer with a background in international affairs. She represented Ukraine as an elite-level ice dancer from 2008 to 2014, including at the 2014 Winter Olympics, and served as the North America regional director of the World Youth Alliance from 2020 to 2022.
Competing for Ukraine
American figure skater Siobhan Heekin-Canedy represented Ukraine in the 2014 Winter Olympics–and became an unofficial cultural ambassador for the Ukrainian people along the way.