Catherine Ann Fitzpatrick, also known under her pen name and virtual worlds pseudonym "Prokofy Neva",[1][2] is a former human rights activist, Russian–English translator, former journalist, and a blogger and commentator.

She has translated 30 Russian books by authors such as Joseph Stalin, Boris Yeltsin, Vladimir Putin, and several USSR Politburo members.

[citation needed] She has worked for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, where she was the editor of the weekly radio magazine "(Un)Civil Societies" from 2003[3][4] She has been the Executive Director of the International League for Human Rights,[5][6][7][8] the program director for the former Soviet countries,[9] as well as the UN representative of the International League for Human Rights.

[2] Following President Barack Obama's reelection in November 2012, Fitzpatrick penned an entry on her own blog in which she alleged that Republican challenger Mitt Romney's campaign's "ORCA" digital operation had failed because Targeted Victory, the company responsible for much of its online and digital strategy had employed African-American developers who she alleged to have favored the Obama campaign and whose politics was deliberately reflected as bugs left in their work—a hypothesis she based in part on the fact that the developers belonged to ethnic minorities statistically more likely to support Obama, and that one of them had previously been a developer for Al Gore.

[13] She later updated her blog to note that the developers in question had not worked on the ORCA project, but on other digital media-related areas of the campaign.