She is a war crime documentarian, human rights activist and lawyer. She was born in Hulyaipole, Zaporizhzhia region. She received a law degree from the Law Faculty of Zaporizhzhia National University.

Since 2022, she has been working as a documentary filmmaker for the NGO "Association of Relatives of Political Prisoners of the Kremlin", where she documents war crimes, politically motivated persecution, enforced disappearances, and other violations of international humanitarian law and human rights, including in the temporarily occupied and frontline territories.

She has experience of field missions in Zaporizhzhia region, in particular in the affected communities near the front line. She works with testimonies of victims, analyzes open sources, and prepares analytical reports aimed at preserving the truth about war crimes and bringing perpetrators to justice. Her work combines legal expertise with practical work in the field, as well as with an educational and human rights component.

As part of the LivArch Fellowship at the Center for Urban History, Alina Rodina will work on a research paper that explores the risks faced by internally displaced persons (IDPs) when returning to the temporarily occupied territories (TOT). The focus is on the threat of re-abduction, illegal detention, persecution, as well as challenges related to collecting testimonies and working with information from the TOT. The paper will analyze the experience of IDPs returning, the motivation for such decisions, and potential human rights violations. Special attention will be paid to the technical, ethical, and security aspects of remote data collection, witness protection and digital archiving. As part of the research, Alina Rodina will also develop an interview matrix for recording testimonies and offer recommendations for maintaining confidentiality and sustainability of digital archives in wartime.