Vasyl’ Mudryi (1893-1966) was a journalist, civic leader, and political activist, as well as a member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society. From 1921 to 1925, he served as secretary and treasurer of the Ukrainian Underground University in L'viv and was a member of the Executive Council of Prosvita from 1921 to 1931, later becoming vice president in 1932. Mudryi was also a member of the editorial staff of the newspaper Dilo, serving as its chief editor from 1927 to 1935. Between 1926 and 1939, he was vice president, and later president and chief policymaker, of the Ukrainian National Democratic Association (UNDO). Representing UNDO, Mudryi became a delegate, and eventually the head, of the Ukrainian Parliamentarian Representation in the Polish Sejm, where he also served as vice marshal.

In 1939, Mudryi emigrated to Cracow, where he worked with the Ukrainian Publishing House. He relocated to Bavaria in 1944, where he led the Central Representation of Ukrainian Immigration in Germany. In 1949, he immigrated to the United States and became executive director of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America, a position he held until his death.